Total strangers keep congratulating me on the birth of SteelyKid. No, not people on the Internet, people in real life.<\/p>\n
We have a standard dog-walking route that we take Emmy on every night, and Kate and I usually do the evening walk together. Of course, Kate’s not coming along on those now, and now people along the route keep saying “Hey, did your wife have the baby? Congratulations!”<\/p>\n
In a sense, they’re not really strangers– after all, I know where they live. But I really don’t know anything meaningful about them, and tend to identify them sort of like Curious George<\/cite> characters– The Woman With Two Big Dogs, The Man With the Yappy Poodle, and so on.<\/p>\n The funny thing about this is that it really never occurred to me that the identification would go both ways. I mean, I think of them as The Guy Who’s Replacing His Siding, or The People With the Really Old Golden Retreiver, because that’s how we see them every night, but it never really dawned on me that they were simultaneously noting us down as The Really Big Guy and the Pregnant Woman.<\/p>\n It’s kind of nice, in a weird way, though. It’s the sort of thing that city dwellers refer to as a “small town atmosphere”–it’s not, really, because they don’t know a tenth as much about us as people in a real small town would. It’s one of the features that make me really love our neighborhood.<\/p>\n It’ll be cool when Kate and SteelyKid are up to coming along on the longer walks. We might even introduce ourselves at that point, or maybe that would ruin the effect…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Total strangers keep congratulating me on the birth of SteelyKid. No, not people on the Internet, people in real life. We have a standard dog-walking route that we take Emmy on every night, and Kate and I usually do the evening walk together. Of course, Kate’s not coming along on those now, and now people… Continue reading The Transitive Property<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steelykid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}