An Hour After My Son Was Born, I Was Right Where My Wife Needed Me. In Line At Shake Shack

Of My Child's Birth -- And Shake Shack
A burger, fries, and beverage are arranged for a photograph at a Shake Shack restaurant in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Shake Shack, the burger chain started by restauranteur Danny Meyer as a kiosk in a New York City park, is preparing for an initial public offering that could value it as high as $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
A burger, fries, and beverage are arranged for a photograph at a Shake Shack restaurant in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Shake Shack, the burger chain started by restauranteur Danny Meyer as a kiosk in a New York City park, is preparing for an initial public offering that could value it as high as $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

My son was just an hour old and I had just become a proud first-time father. Guess what I was doing. Cradling him, while singing him his first lullaby? Nope. Showing him off to gathered relatives? Try again. Triumphantly posting a picture to Facebook? Sorry, wrong.

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