@BarbieQPickle,
Yeah, one time I was in the mall and this older woman was sitting on the bench holding a doll. At first I thought it was a baby, because she was talking to it and smiling at it, etc. But when I got closer, I saw it was a doll.
But this was really funny - my friend and I were out in the park or somewhere and he said, 'That's a crime - that woman should have a bonnet on that baby's head...s/he's liable to get sunburned on a day like today.'
And I just started laughting, because it was a doll - and you could tell it was a doll - the mother was holding it by one wrist and sort of dangling it while she walked along holding the hand of her toddler daughter.
I said,'So you're more worried about the kid's head getting sunburned than the fact that the way that woman's carrying the thing, she'd bump her head on the pavement or dislocate her shoulder?'
It's a DOLL!
We laughed for like twenty minutes over that.