WHAT'LL YOU TAKE FOR THAT KID?

Who hasn't been in a grocery store and not seen a young mother with her beautiful little one in a stroller while shopping? The little ones are either sucking on a "baaboo", or pointing to the cereal boxes.

Sometime the little ones will see me and point, and I can't help but point right back at them, and say something like, "You are soooo cute! What is your name?" Or, "How old are you?". Then, invariably the mother will smile when someone brags on their child, and then tells me the child's age.

Sometime, if the mother is friendly, I might ask her "What'll you take for that little one?" Of course she always says, "He/she is priceless!" I have been known to say, "I'll give you a quarter for that child!" (always laughing).

Once, this exhausted mother said to me, " I'll give you a quarter to take him! Then I quickly answer, "I was just kidding."