Sometimes when you go to a store, you see kids running
amok. They race from aisle to aisle,
from item to item. It can be pretty
intense. Most of the time I don't mind
it, unless I have a headache--but then what in the world am I doing
shopping.
When the store in question is a toy store, I really can't
blame the kids. They are in childhood
paradise, and they should revel in it.
Since I can easily channel my inner child, I can see how stimulating the
experience is.
There are times when I wonder what their parents are
thinking, though. I watched the same
scene that was wonderful in the toy store take place in a liquor store. Call me judgemental, but somehow I don't
think a child running wild in a store full of glass is really a good idea. I have even seen some people let their
children push the cart. I can't be sure,
but maybe the children were in better shape than the parents (it was a liquor
store after all.)
When I was a child, we weren't allowed in the liquor
store. Of course, child abductors and
the general decline of our civilization has made leaving children in cars or
alone in front of stores a rather bad idea.
In fact, it was probably always a bad idea (like riding tail gunner
position in the back of the station wagon) but we did it anyway.
I wish I could say that things are better. Sadly, I think that though children are more
computer and technology literate, they aren't better behaved.
