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Guaranteed human. My coworker kidnapped a kid, but now she's changing her mind. She wants to kick him to the streets. I'm calling the cops. Am I the a-hole? You know what? It's like a little like foster kid. You take it in for a couple days and then you just dump it out and then ring around the rosy. Someone takes it in again. Sam, can you remind me not to be adopted by you? No, what are you being, bro? You take care of the kid and then the streets will take care of it. Wow. Build so much character, right? Yeah. Like, think of, uh, think of Mowgli, you know, the jungle book, left him out, was raised by the wilderness. You know, why, why can't the streets raise a child? You know, now, see, now, now I see how Mowgli is, is, there's nothing wrong with Mowgli being the, the, the archetype for parenting, you know. I think that's exactly what you'd have. There, there you go. Mowgli being the archetype for parenting, you know? I think that's exactly what you'd have.

There you go.

Mowgli is the ideal child.

Ladies and gentlemen, you have your answer.

So, my coworker is kind of a weirdo.

I will call her Mary for the sake of this post.

Her and her husband are one of those people that have a ton of adopted kids.

Eight so far.

Eight adopted kids.

That's crazy.

That is.

Is that like one of those like tax schemes where you get money because you adopt more kids and like are they trying to game the system?

You know, that is honestly a pretty good guess

but eight kids is a lot eight to a yeah eight eight eight is wow eight is great that's a lot of kids

that has a lot of little mouths to feed and they're super religious to each his own, Mary enjoys telling everyone at work her business.

So when she decided to adopt a kid from Ukraine, everybody heard about it.

She went with an older kid because it was easier for her and her husband, she says.

This was two years ago.

Mary has always asked me to babysit the boy a couple of times.

I'll call him.

How old is the kid?

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