Computer Commons on a Tuesday Afternoon

Another crying baby. It frets and wails disconsolately for an hour or more while its stoically oblivious parent frowns into a computer screen and pecks at a keyboard. Finally it is tucked and quieted and strolled away. Presently another infant takes its place, accompanied by another unmindful caregiver.

It must be annoying, even unsettling, but no one says anything. Not to the parent, not to the staff, not to security, and certainly not to the baby.