To have laughed at this woman

[Fakebook]

Today I was standing in the doctors surgery talking to the receptionist about something and a lady came in with her 7-8 year old daughter.

There is a high shelf type desky thing between the patients and the receptionist.

I was leaning on this desk thing and the little girl began reaching up to it and touching it out of boredom. Cue mother: "NO TILLY (not real name) THAT'S DIRTY". Tilly desisted. Few seconds later Tilly begins touching the desk again. "NO TILLY, THAT'S DIRTY DON'T TOUCH IT". Tilly stops once more. Then Tilly, much to my amusement, bites the desk! Mother (in disbelief): "TIIILLLLYYY?!' Then she mumbled something a bit sternly in Tilly's ear.

I looked at them and started laughing with my "wtf" face. The mother seemed a bit angry/ embarrassed. I felt sorry for Tilly.

I knew it wouldn't be long before someone mentioned asd.

I'm sorry for laughing, maybe I was being unreasonable. But it was bloody funny. If everyone stopped to think whether every person/child has a disorder of some sort, we'd never laugh. Fwiw, we don't know if the girl had an underlying condition so would it have been ok if I'd asked her mother first and then laughed? Hmm.

Why laugh at people who you don't know at all?

They are just going about their daily lives.

Who ever taught you that you laugh out load at people around you?

Well, whoever they were, they were wrong.