Mom visited us recently, and as she was getting ready to leave, she asked for a “goodbye hug from her baby.”
Afterwards, L’s Mother turned to L. and said, basically, “See? I know you don’t like it when I call you ‘my baby,’ but your dad just got called ‘baby’ by his mother and he didn’t complain.”
No . . . no, I didn’t, but she obviously didn’t see the look of utter revulsion that crossed my face.
Candles & Curses 