After complaining about apain in her ear for a couple days, I took Dina to the doctor. Turns out she had a bunch of earwax stuck way in her ear; the doctor performed the very complicated surgical procedure of squirting water in her ear to dislodge the wax.
Throughout the half hour or so we were there, he would stop periodically, look at Dina and say things like “You are so pretty!” or “Look at those eyes.” But my favorite were these:
1. (To me) “You’re going to have trouble when she gets older!” That one I’ve heard before, and I’m never quite sure how to react. This time I chose to laugh and say “I know, I know.”
2. (To Dina) “Don’t you want to be in commercials? I’ll be your agent; we could make a lot of money.” I marvelled at the honesty of this comment. After all, good looks are a commodity, whether we aknowledge it or not. And while we’ve made the chioce not to exploit our children’s emminent cuteness, they’ve already figured out that they can leverage that cuteness to get stuff (like candy).
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alright, it’s time i confess. when i first thought of the idea of having dina in commercials i thought of how i could become a hundred-thousandaire before no time. but you know, you guys didn’t want to exploit her, but you guys also don’t have a television, so how would you ever know if she was on tv? so whenever you guys would be asleep in manteno or whatever, i’d get her to say little phrases into the camera and smile and send the tape off to Huggies® and then get a check in the mail a few months later. don’t worry, i’ll spend all the money on ice cream for dina
brilliant!
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