Too much information!

Having a baby means a lot of strangers come up to you and say hello to you and your little one. Some of these strangers don't stop at hello. Today, we went out to lunch while Christmas shopping, and the waitress where we ate came by, said hello, said how cute Baby J. was, told us she has two daughters, and then went on to tell us how her:

• daughters fight all the time
• that they're a couple of brats
• that she can't stand them anymore
• that she has no idea what she's going to do with them
• feels like she's just about given up on her kids

At this point, we don't know what to say. We just kind of sit there awkwardly nodding. What is there to say that? Oh, I'm sorry about your daughters. Or, have you tried putting them up for adoption? Some people just don't know when to stop talking. You're my waitress, not a friend of ours, I don't really think handing us some menus and asking what we'd like for lunch equates enough of a relationship to justify telling us about your parenting woes.

Am I wrong?

D.