gramercy r us?

So on Saturday we find ourselves at Babies R Us researching new carseats, you can actually try them out there, and then cheap me buys the same one online for much less. Babies R Us is the Bend Over Market of baby stuff.

Bend Over Market = Amish Market = very expensive grocery store that I shopped at when living in TriBeCa.

Ok so as we are shopping we pass this couple pushing a baby, I happen to glance down at the baby and notice the most stunning eyes I've ever seen. This tiny baby, whose eye color shouldn't even be fully obvious yet, had the most electric blue eyes. I had to do a double take. I then told his mother how beautiful they were. She said he had his father's eyes. Which he did, only his were brighter. The couple was so nice, we talked for about 15 minutes. In my head I thought, I could totally be friends with these people, they seem like us. Same ages, not a super young family, same dress, just the same. We finally go our separate ways.

We are at the car seats and the mom comes back over and tells us they don't live in Arizona and wondered if we knew anyone who would have use for a co-sleeper and bouncy chair as when they ended their vacation they would just be tossing them. They have 2 more weeks on their vacation, so the stuff will be brand new. As we looked for a pen and/or business card I asked where they lived. New York. Oh where in New York? Manhattan. Of course you do.

We exchanged info and then joked that we should do a house swap. The mom (Cheri) was totally into it as they just rented a house for a month in AZ (her parents live here) and her husband can work anywhere. She loved the idea of having a house already equipped with baby stuff. Our babies are 3 months apart. Then she casually mentions that they live in Gramercy Park and have a key to the park!! There are just a few dozen that have this key.

I have met people in stranger ways, you just never know how or when you might meet someone.