You Will Meet Your Child’s Playdate Parent

But before you do, she will meet you online. 

She will check your looks, and age, vocation, and address -- the places of your past and present dwellings. 

She will gauge the looks of these dwellings and if they stand up to her human worth. 

She will explore the visual fields around you, straining to make conjectures, educated guesses, analysing comparatively.

How good looking, and if tall. What house and where husband and how children and if a dog. And who outdoes whom here and on what planes. There is much to discern.

There will be social pages to consult and linking profiles to consider. Things to view and review. There is research to do. 

This playdate meeting has taken place before itself. 

But when it happens, it will begin with a freshly feigned, high pitched hi, and a gradually descending nice to meet you, and my name is so-and-so and your name is, oh, can you please repeat that, which you will, even though all of it is already known. 

But likewise.