Monday

Brooklyn Heights Promenade

Monday, October 23, 2006
Sitting on Bench (city side) and later walking away. Opposite Side. Opposite direction. Blonde girl who was 2-ish in pink quilted jacket with feather like headdress around hood. Nanny was European. Very slim. Dark hair. No makeup. Wore a black vest over a grey shirt. The stroller was dark blue with bright yellow wheels. This was about 10:20 a.m. today (10/23). The nanny was sitting on the bench reading a paperback book with a blue-ish cover and had that writing that looked from the distance to be a suspense type novel. The child was parked so she could see out but she kept wanting to talk and ask questions about the water. And what she saw. Which building Daddy worked in. The nanny never looked up from the book and said "quiet now, shhhhh. shhhhhhh". When she did get up to leave with the child it was in a huff and she said to no one in particular (or to the child) "to get some peace and quiet I have to freeze my ass off. And even then". This was said with a European accent and punctuated with an annoyed sigh.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like a mom.

Anonymous said...

I would really like to know what a european accent sounds like..?

Norwegian? German? Swedish? Italian? Spanish? Russian? Portugese? French? Scottish? Polish

Anonymous said...

Wow you have some balls. Did it ever occur to you that to a non European, y' all might sound about the same?

Anonymous said...

If a poster mentions the nanny's ethnicity, the commenters freak out and demand to know how they could possibly have ascertained that simply by observing her features and accent. But when a poster tries to be more vague and decribes a regional accent rather than a specific accent, the comments freak out because they are not specific enough.

Pick or choose, anonymous. You can't have it both ways.

Anonymous said...

To the person above. Yes that is true. A person got slammed for recognizing a Puerto Rican accent.

You can't win with this crowd.

Anonymous said...

how you know it was nanny????

Anonymous said...

if it wasn't a nanny, no harm, no foul, right? that wasn't a very thoughtful/useful comment.

Anonymous said...

Maybe the parents are practicing the bagpipes at home?? Or keep hordes of monkeys in cages? Or too many noisy dogs? Groups of nosy in-laws? Who knows, maybe she really did need some peace and quiet!