Went to a Super Bowl party & I will never be the same.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one who thinks this would be great to do when an empty nester, like if I could get custom dolls that looked like my kids as babies? That would be so sweet and amazing to preserve them like that forever in that state, especially quiet and not talking back!

[Anonymous]

My grandmother got a 'baby' (baby doll) when she started having dementia in her mid-late 80s in her assisted living home. The workers (my mom was an admin. there) all went along with it.

If she was in her right mind she would have been making fun of someone else for it. She was a feisty, sharp-mouthed tiny Sicilian woman. The doll creeped me out.

[Anonymous]

OMG!! I frickin' love your co-worker:

A coworker there did try to hint at it, I think, when they asked if Eli was their only child[b]. She said that he was the only kid they wanted. I looked up these dolls and lifestyle on Instagram and it's not just people with trauma who like these dolls.

My mom would do sh*t like that with a straight face.

[Anonymous]

I miss this stuff. Sigh. I've been WAH since 2005 and my crew of co-workers is stretched all around the country now.

It was an agency full of absolute whack jobs and there were a ton of unbelievable stories and people with serious quirks.

I so wish it was me there with some of my old hilarious co-worker gang. I'm so jealous!!!

[Anonymous]

OP, I love you. Thx for sharing the story! I’d be a little
more concerned about the gnome painting other co-worker though……

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP.

Some questions I saw:
-Our department is made up of 6 people. Coworker has been with us since mid-November. She's a fun person & I've been out after work to have drinks with her and others in our dept. NO ONE KNEW about her son. We work 3 days in office/2 days at home. I'm telling you, the photo of her son on her desk looks legit like a real baby.

-Only 4 of us came to the party from our department. There was 8 people total the whole time and two neighbors of hers stopped by during halftime to see the show. Her husband was one of the people there. They don't seem weird if that makes sense. They seem like perfectly normal people but the way some people think of themselves as a Dog Mom, she's a Doll Mom? The husband held the baby but overall, it seems like it's more of her thing.

-Also, wtf else was I supposed to say when she took us on a house tour and showed us the freaking nursery?! The nursery was a lovely shade of pale blue-gray.

Like, I was just thrust into this weird ass situation and trying to figure out wtf was going on. I once went to NYC while in college and allowed myself to be pushed into a sketchy van on Canal street and driven around by Asian strangers with visible guns under their coats to buy knockoff designer bags and yet THIS was the most worried I'd been for my life.

I don't think this stems from trauma but who knows. I'm not touching that or asking about it. A coworker there did try to hint at it, I think, when they asked if Eli was their only child. She said that he was the only kid they wanted. I looked up these dolls and lifestyle on Instagram and it's not just people with trauma who like these dolls.

I told my sister about this experience last night and she laughed until she was crying and gasping for air because it is just like me to make a resolution to be more social and then put myself into such an odd social experience. I'm a homebody. The pandemic made me even worse. I'm not even saying my hobbies are better than hers, either! I'm really not making fun of her, I swear. When I get home from work, I toss on some trashy TV and spend my evenings doing jigsaw puzzles or diamond painting. Diamond painting...because I find the sounds of squishing the stones down very soothing & because I have no real artistic skill to really paint. I'm not some cool person.

OP, I really need to hear more about your experiences with the van full of Yakuza.

+1000! But also a little racist to point out “Asians.” Would she have said “a bunch of white guys”? Nevertheless your readership demands more on this!

Asian here. I think it's a legit description for the story.

But it's not Yakuza, they are Japanese. These are Chinese mafia

I assume everyone knows that.

[Anonymous]

Well at least little Eli won't be throwing any pine cones out the car window.

Also, what is diamond painting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My grandmother got a 'baby' (baby doll) when she started having dementia in her mid-late 80s in her assisted living home. The workers (my mom was an admin. there) all went along with it.

If she was in her right mind she would have been making fun of someone else for it. She was a feisty, sharp-mouthed tiny Sicilian woman. The doll creeped me out.

This seems like an excellent use for dolls. Dementia is brutal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is OP.

Some questions I saw:
-Our department is made up of 6 people. Coworker has been with us since mid-November. She's a fun person & I've been out after work to have drinks with her and others in our dept. NO ONE KNEW about her son. We work 3 days in office/2 days at home. I'm telling you, the photo of her son on her desk looks legit like a real baby.

-Only 4 of us came to the party from our department. There was 8 people total the whole time and two neighbors of hers stopped by during halftime to see the show. Her husband was one of the people there. They don't seem weird if that makes sense. They seem like perfectly normal people but the way some people think of themselves as a Dog Mom, she's a Doll Mom? The husband held the baby but overall, it seems like it's more of her thing.

-Also, wtf else was I supposed to say when she took us on a house tour and showed us the freaking nursery?! The nursery was a lovely shade of pale blue-gray.

Like, I was just thrust into this weird ass situation and trying to figure out wtf was going on. I once went to NYC while in college and allowed myself to be pushed into a sketchy van on Canal street and driven around by Asian strangers with visible guns under their coats to buy knockoff designer bags and yet THIS was the most worried I'd been for my life.

I don't think this stems from trauma but who knows. I'm not touching that or asking about it. A coworker there did try to hint at it, I think, when they asked if Eli was their only child. She said that he was the only kid they wanted. I looked up these dolls and lifestyle on Instagram and it's not just people with trauma who like these dolls.

I told my sister about this experience last night and she laughed until she was crying and gasping for air because it is just like me to make a resolution to be more social and then put myself into such an odd social experience. I'm a homebody. The pandemic made me even worse. I'm not even saying my hobbies are better than hers, either! I'm really not making fun of her, I swear. When I get home from work, I toss on some trashy TV and spend my evenings doing jigsaw puzzles or diamond painting. Diamond painting...because I find the sounds of squishing the stones down very soothing & because I have no real artistic skill to really paint. I'm not some cool person.

OP, I really need to hear more about your experiences with the van full of Yakuza.

+1000! But also a little racist to point out “Asians.” Would she have said “a bunch of white guys”? Nevertheless your readership demands more on this!

Asian here. I think it's a legit description for the story.

But it's not Yakuza, they are Japanese. These are Chinese mafia

I assume everyone knows that.

Yeah, that's why it's super annoying when someone throws out a Yakuza reference.

[Anonymous]

This will be a DCUM classic. Right up there with lightly fried canned tuna.

[Anonymous]

Should I do work today or go down the rabbit hole of fake babies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Should I do work today or go down the rabbit hole of fake babies?

Come on now. I think you know the answer to that.
😉

[Anonymous]

I would hilariously never mention it and come into work with a completely straight face
“How about them Rams?”

[Anonymous]

I have had several experiences where my first reaction was to say to my friends "omfg wtf was that? Can you believe it" and then to settle down and realize the person involved probably needed help/had trauma etc. But it's seriously human nature to respond like OP drunkenly did on an anonymous site to want to spill it. It's bizarre. Not something to directly make fun of a person for, but definitely a WTF moment.

[Anonymous]

That was amazing OP. I was having a rough day, and now I can't stop smiling.