Approximately 9/26/03 00:07, ynotssor uttered for posterity:

> "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:3F731F95.47090424@earthlink.net
> 
>>>> Consider yourself lucky.  It's constant here.  Once my daughter
>>>> starts babbling a little more, I'm going to start handing the phone
>>>> to her.
>>>
>>> Why subject an innocent child to the unknown, unsupervised words of a
>>> potentially hostile complete stranger?
>>
>> Why would they be hostile?  Small children usually LOVE to "talk" on
>> the phone, and seldom listen to the person on the other end, anyway.
> 
> Kids pick up words so readily that it would amaze one. Their young minds are
> hungry for information, *any* information.

  So you have a kid who can say the phrase "free timeshare vacation".
> 
> Would you leave your child alone with a stranger in the parking lot of a
> supermarket while you ran inside to buy a 6 pack real quick?

  You need therapy for this level of paranoia, seriously.  And please
  don't have children until you get it... you're dangerous and kids
  *do* pick up on levels of anxiety and paranoia this obvious.
> 
> Would you take the chance of a complete stranger that you don't want to hear
> from anyway having the ear and attention of your child, while you are unable
> to hear what is being said to that child?
> 
> The words "irresponsible" and "passively abusive" spring to mind.

  Followed by psychotic and unreasoning and unwarranted fear displayed
  by an adult who should know better.