What Kind of Question is THAT?

I have been asked some extraordinary questions over the past six months, but this one surely takes the biscuit. Consider that it fell from the mouth of a new father and it seems even more outrageous.

“Were you disappointed?” he enquired.

“Disappointed in what?” I asked

“That you had a girl and not a boy?”

Looking at his little boy bouncing on his knee, I could only hope that he would grow to take after his mother and not his vile father.