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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry OP, it does sound like she's just not very bright.

How can taking care of a few kids be so overwhelming for her, a nanny, that she can't remember plastic melts on hot stoves or that a vacuum cleaner needs a fresh bag or that a knob that is stuck shouldn't be forced? She has a tiny brain if there isn't room to remember those things while taking care of children.[/quote]

Frankly, I am amazed at this post.  Being bright has nothing to do with not being able to focus.  My father is an astrophysics professor who has done things like that when consumed by thinking about far more intelligent matters.  One thing he does not have is a tiny brain for sure.  How can you judge someone's intelligence based in a few lines about a person you never met?[/quote]

Well...because she doesn't have anything as grandiose as astrophysics to be thinking about. I know scatterbrained geniuses, or people working on a thesis or a grant proposal or other imposing tasks that become unfocused in day-to-day things, but these sorts of things (operating a stove, a vacuum, keeping plastic from melting on hot burners) are part of the nanny's daily JOB. If your father's job every day was to vacuum the carpet, I bet he wouldn't forget to throw a new bag in, you know? She's failing at some very basic duties here, and isn't offsetting that by discovering a new planet or composing the next great opera...[/quote]

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