Got a three year old and i'm regularly infuriated by kind, sweet, utterly well-meaning f***ing idiots trying to feed him, even though my Chinese is perfectly good enough to tell them not to and to explain my reasons, I have to get pissed off half the time for people to listen. The last time I let someone give him a sweet he had an allergic reaction (because standards in the production of food here are so low), another time I watched some stupid cow drop a piece of bread on the floor, then try to hand it to him. It makes me want to shove food in their faces and see how keen they are to eat from 'my' hand, not knowing where it's been. (Some pretty disgusting places, I can tell you).

  There was an experiment done between some kindergarten or other and the police in which they got people to offer kids sweets and lure them away, and they were 'successful' in abducting 95% of these badly taught kids.

  I just had to get pissed with some woman I really like in a local shop, just twenty minutes ago, after explaining that I don't want my son to get used to accepting food from people other than his family, and she still insisted on pushing food into his hands, telling me, "Our Chinese kids (a popular phrase; 'our' China, 'our' Chinese kids, 'our' Chinese people, etc) are like this, we all share food with them" forcing me to tell her that "He's not one of 'your' Chinese kids, he's my kid" before shoving her cucumber back in her hands. Yeh, what are the odds, it was a cucumber, and yes, you can guess where I was tempted to shove it.

  What a wind-up.

  China! 'Please' stop trying to feed my f***ing kids! Thank you.