Chandler Bing: My Roommate

Chapter III - The One With The Baby On The Bus

Taken from The One with the Baby on the Bus (EP06xSE02)

Time passed and my feeling for Joey increased. I got involved with girls, as I always did, but it made me feel a bit bad. It was as if I felt that I was cheating on him, but for what I, myself, felt. Yes, this is quite paranoid. Anyway, let's go. I'll tell you another moment that made me feel special next to him that was the day Joey and I became responsible for taking care of Ben, Ross' son. I was happy to be doing this with Joey. It seems a little silly, because we were like parents. It was only bad a little later because we would be careless parents.

It was funny how uncomfortable Ben was with his aunt, Monica. He could not stay on his lap if he did not cry. But when I put him in my lap or Ross' lap, he would stop. It was enough to approach Monica and he cried. Of course Monica was worried and put things in her head if she was a mother one day and her son could "hate" her, as she said the way Ben reacted to her. Meanwhile, Ross was eating the pie Monica had made and placed kiwi as one of the ingredients. The downside is that Ross is allergic to Kiwi and Monica did not remember that. Ross then began to make some bubbly sounds.

"Are you okay, Ross?" Joey asks.

"I don't know" Ross answers. "What's in this pie?"

"Uh, I don't know. Butter, eggs, flour, lime, kiwi..." Monica answers.

"Kiwi? Kiwi? You said it was a key lime pie!" Ross says, worried.

"No I didn't, I said kiwi lime. That's what makes it so special."

"And that's what's gonna kill me. I'm allergic to kiwi", Ross is still nervous and worried.

"No you're not. You're, you're allergic to lobster and peanuts and..."

And then Monica realized that Ross was really allergic and she was worried. In turn, she decided to take him to the hospital, but Ross does not seem to like it very much when he began to say he was getting well, even though he was not. Monica said she was going to take him to the hospital against his will.

"What about Ben? We can't bring a baby to a hospital" Ross says.

"We'll watch him" Joey answers.

"I don't think tho."

"What? I have seven Catholic sisters. I've taken care of hundreds of kids" Joey says about helping his sisters with the babies. "Come on, we wanna do it, don't we?"

"Well, I was looking forward to playing basketball, but I guess that's out the window" I say.

Ross, almost unable to speak properly, said what we should do to take care of his son's needs and went to the hospital with his sister.

"You know, I don't think we brought enough stuff. Did you forget to pack the baby's anvil?" I say, sarcastically.

"It's gonna be worth it. It's a known fact that women love babies, all right? Women love guys who love babies. It's that whole sensitive thing" Joey says quite excited about the prospect of seducing the women using Ben."Quick, aim him at that pack o' babes over there. Maybe one of them will break away. No, no wait, for get them, we got one, hard left. All right, gimme the baby."

"No, I got him" I say.

"No, seriously."

"Oh, seriously you want him?"

Then the woman approached us towards Ben, the greeting with a "hello" and we answered. She was delighted with Ben. Joey said to her she smells Ben's head, to see how he also is a smelling baby. She showed a good feeling with that baby scent and then said she thought it was cool to do that, to take care of a baby.