The scene is set beside the junction of two major roads. A park bench has been placed there by the council, seemingly for no other purpose than to give members of the public full view of the intersection. A YOUNG WOMAN is seated on the bench, breastfeeding. GRACE enters from stage right, dripping in sweat and clutching a bike helmet and a bottle of Pepsi Max.
GRACE: Would you mind me sitting here?
YOUNG WOMAN: As long as you don't mind me feeding...
GRACE: Of course not.
YOUNG WOMAN: It's just that, I'm never sure whether it's OK in public, you know, to feed him.
Well, if she was that worried about breastfeeding "in public", why was she sitting in full view of hundreds of motorists?
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The 100 motorists aren't likely to stop their cars to complain, but the one person approaching the bench may.
It's astonishing how many people don't mind bare breasts in advertising and on page 3, but have an absolute horror of a breasfeeding mother - when you think that there is absolutely nothing embarrassing visible after baby has latched on!
Well done your lady on the bench for asking you whether you mind. I would have been far less accommodating.
"The 100 motorists aren't likely to stop their cars to complain, but the one person approaching the bench may."
Logical, I suppose! But like you, I wouldn't have asked (and, with carbon monoxide emissions etc, might have wondered whether my breastfeeding darling might have like somewhere further from the exhaust fumes?)
It's like those people who put all their picnic things out on the verge of a major road, looking into the beautiful countryside only 50 yards away.
Sounds promising to me, don't forget we were all young and inexperienced once (actually more often than once!).
After all, this young woman knows that breast is best, thinks (rightly) that she should be able to feed wherever she and baby like, and understands the importance of fresh air (fresh being a relative term) and exercise. This seems anecdotally at least to be a lot better than many a young mum and they should both go far.
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