This story took place in Boston quite a few years back. My mom and I had been invited to a reunion at Boston's Children's Hospital due to my medical history there. So my mom, her friend, and I went up there to to see how everyone was doing. While we were there we talked with all the doctors and the occasional patient that we knew. The party happened to be outside and I was a little cold that day just wearing a T-shirt. To keep myself warm I stuck my arms on the inside of my shirt.
"Chris" my mom said "Take your arms out of your shirt, people are staring". "No, I'm cold" I said. I thought my mom wanted me to take my arms out cause I looked immature, I didn't realize until later what was so wrong with what I was doing. It turns out that because we were at a hospital reunion, I looked like some kind of patient that had lost both of his arms. Of course this thought never registered in my brain. I just sat there next to my mom with my arms wrapped around myself inside my shirt.
My mom's friend apparently didn't make the connection regarding my arms either. She sat next to us at our table after grabbing some food. After noticing me, she turned and jokingly said "Hey Chris, would you like me to feed you". She took something off her plate and moved it towards my mouth. Before I could bite down, she pulled it away. Again, she went to give the food to me, but than pulled away again. "Come on Chris" she laughed "You almost got it". The people around us stared mortified at what appeared to be some woman making fun of an armless kid. Even the people that my mom had been talking to were staring at us. Eventually, my moms friend let me eat whatever it was she was feeding me.
"You want another Chris" she said. We started the whole process of cat and mouse again and disturbed even more people. When my moms friend stopped feeding me, she had no clue what she had done. It wasn't until later on that my mom explained to us both what we had done wrong. My moms friend and I started cracking up together.
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