Reminds me of a story Tony Coleman recounted in one of the Hospital Records podcasts. He was playing in S Korea and took his wife and baby over with him, walking down the street and was amazed at people coming over to look at/talk about the baby. Definitely one of our more stupid cultural things.
I saw a little boy (4/5) dressed as a pirate walking along with his dad. Gave him a ‘Garrrrrggghh’ as I walked passed (plus pirate face – can’t make the noise properly without it). Kid thought it was funny, dad looked at me like I’d just offered an Indecent Proposal *shrugs*.