It amuses me more than makes me happy but it always makes me chuckle how weird they think I am at work.
Some of the reasons they think I'm weird:
1. I have a big beard. They do not understand this. They cope with it by making muslim jokes.
2. I have weird lefty political views. They all think Cameron was a great PM and that the Tories are doing a great job. I am in a minority of one when I point out how badly they are governing the country. When I tell them I voted Green in the last election they look very confused indeed.
3. I don't think that immigrants are ruining the NHS or our country in general.
4. I wanted to stay in the EU.
5. We fed our kids by using 'baby led weaning' (basically they fed themselves with actual food rather than us spoon feeding them mush).
6. We use a wrap/sling instead of a pushchair. Apparently, they are dangerous in case we fall and hurt the child although women have managed to use slings throughout the world for hundreds of years.
7. My son has a non-traditional name. I believe their reaction was, 'hmm, that's...interesting'.
8. Both our kids had Naming Ceremonies instead of a Christening.
9. This is the biggie - we home educate our daughter. She should have started in September so when I tell them that she is being home educated you can see the confusion in their faces 'You don't send her to school? Ooh, I don't agree with that!'
I would never claim that our view of life is better or worse than theirs and maybe my wife and I are are a pair of hippy weirdo's after all, but it amuses me how weird they think we are. In fact, I might start just making up some extra weird things to tell them just to see their reaction!
