Let This Man Hold Your Baby
Summary
A man with a simple proposition stops Kareem on the subway: let him hold your baby. At first it sounds like a recipe for disaster, but he's offering something genuinely helpful. Picture yourself at the airport, stressed and juggling a baby while desperately needing that latte. He'd step in. Hold the kid. Give you a break. Kareem's skeptical at first, but the guy makes a solid point about community and helping people haul strollers up subway stairs. That's already half a baby, right? Why not round up? The conversation somehow transforms from creepy stranger danger territory into a weirdly convincing case for trusting your fellow New Yorkers with your most precious cargo, though the guest admits he'd probably say no if someone asked him the same thing.
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So what's your take? Let me hold your baby. 100% disagree. Let me hold your baby. Let's say you're at the airport and you're stressed, you're frazzled, you need a latte, but you got this baby you don't want to hold. Let me hold the baby. I'll hold it. You get a latte. Okay?
This is a much better take than I originally thought. At first I thought you just wanted to hold people's babies, which I think is a big no-no. But you're actually trying to be a Good Samaritan. Yes, it's equal. You know, you get a break. It's community. If I was holding 15 burritos and luggage and walking a dog and holding a stroller, and that man said, "Can I hold your baby?" I would say no. So just 'cause I'm a man? What if you steal the baby? You know me. I'm not going to steal your baby. You know me?
Wait, if you hold the door open for someone, you hold the baby? I think it's close.
Okay, this is actually—I'm being convinced. Yeah, you help people with their strollers up the stairs in New York City. That's holding half a baby. I'm just saying let's round it up. Finish the whole thing. I'm in. Yeah.