Denise~* wrote:
> I'm very happy that my "monkey" is typically entertainment for
everbody
> during my shopping experiences with him. Just today I got a
compliment
> from an older lady about how cute he was & how much she was enjoying
> him. Whats even funnier, is he gets more silly & giddy when he
hasn't
> had a nap & he didn't today until the drive home at 4:30pm.
> I would go nuts if I had children like the ones I have seen in other
> families at stores & bless my lucky stars that as of yet, at 2.5
years
> of age he hasn't had a tantrum in a public place. (knock on wood)

I'm even sympathetic to the occasional 2-year-old tantrum. What I
object to are kids running wild, unattended (not a parent in sight),
playing with things, throwing things, getting in the way of adults,
blocking traffic, etc. - basically the parents treating the store as a
free-for-all. What I also don't understand are the people who think
they have to take their entire extended family on their weekly shopping
trip - you have Mom, Pop, three or four kids, Grandma, Sister Louise,
her darling three-yr-old Luchetta, cousin Chuck and a couple
neighborhood kids. Everyone except the family Pit Bull. Inevitably
they block every single aisle they go down. Why the H*LL can't one of
these people stay home with the kids? I just don't get it.

-L.