Considering what we allow children to play with in this country, it would make sense that you would find it creepy. I found it disturbing as well.

But then, we let our high school kids wreck their knees playing football, so I guess it all balances out...

On to the story...

It seemed amazingly generous to me for Baba to pay for Hassan's surgery. The author did not say, but that would have seemed odd to me if I was his father, even with their closeness.