Brad called it: crazy

There's this Chinese woman who lives in our complex who always wants to hold Zuri. She loves, loves, LOVES him. She is very pretty, dresses very chic, has lived in Japan and speaks some English.

Well, one day, I was talking to a friend and Brad was talking to another friend holding Zuri and the aforementioned woman came up. I'm not quite sure what went on and neither is Brad, but when she left, Brad said, "I think she's crazy."

A few days later, I went on a walk with Zuri and stopped by our compound's English bookstore. I had given Zuri a banana and a lollipop in his stroller and he was very sticky and covered in banana (even the peel was all in his lap because he insists upon having that piece, not the broken off piece). I wasn't really worrying about it but that crazy woman came in and some him in that state and oh, started saying the worst things about me in Chinese, "Your mother doesn't love you! Look how dirty she let's you get. She never cleans you does she? You want a Chinese mother, don't you?" She was cleaning him up with napkins and even though I tried to take the banana peel away from her, she insisted upon doing everything herself.

After a few minutes, it suddenly occurred to her that I understood what she was saying. She said in Chinese, "Do you understand me?" I laughed and told her that I did...really, someone saying bad things about you in another language just isn't that offensive. Apparently, she couldn't believe that I wouldn't be mad and she turned back around to Zuri and said, "She doesn't understand," like they have some kind of weird connection.

I came home and asked ayi about this woman and she said that none of the ayis like her. A few days later, she came up to ayi and asked to hold Zuri and ayi said, "Zuri doesn't want to!"

Really, I'm not sure she would steal the baby but she is awfully crazy.

Ayi also told me that a woman leaned over to talk to Zuri and she had on a really low blouse exposing her baboos. Zuri looked up and started saying, "Babbin! Babbin!" Ayi knows that babbin means baboos. The woman asked ayi what he had said and ayi said, "He said the English word for ball."