Just some snippets from recent weeks from well meaning Spanish ladies:
"you didn't pack a dummy in your hospital bag??" - the head nurse in the maternity department
"that baby needs a dummy!" - a passer-by
"you don't have a dummy...what do you mean you don't have a dummy?" - a shop cashier
"all babies like to suck so give him a dummy" - my m-i-l
"where's his dummy?" - the peadiatric nurse at the local health centre
They come in all shapes and sizes. Small teats, shaped teats, brightly coloured teats, textured teats, rubber teats, latex teats...more variety than condoms. The pharmacies are full of them. Nico does cry a lot and people feel that gives them the right to comment and proffer advice. But Spanish babies are dummied babies, which means that Spanish toddlers are dummied toddlers with most three year olds running around with a bit of plastic hanging out of their mouths and spoiling their young innocent faces.
Perhaps the dummy is responsible for the ubiquitous Spanish lisp :-)
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