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April 12, 2007
Or maybe it's just me
I took the girls to Central Market yesterday, mostly because they have a nifty play area and it was a nice day. And, we needed millk and eggs.
We walked through the store to get to the play area, picking up two balloons and slowing us down considerably. I did spot the half price Cadbury Creme Eggs on the way, so it was worth it.
We finally made it outside, where I got to spend 10 minutes corralling balloons and figuring out a way to attach them to my purse. There was a church playgroup with stuff on most of the tables, which was fine, because we didn't need a table. I stuck my purse on the ground and hiked off to make sure Katie didn't plummet to her death on the climby thing.
One of the playgroup boys was almost instantly attracted to the balloons. I was a little occupied with my billy goat, and I was keeping an eye on him to make sure he wasn't a clepto, so I didn't make a big deal about it. Eventually, one of the mother's saw her kid, pried him off my purse, and then put it up on a table so he couldn't get to it anymore. Then she informed me, very nicely but with perhaps a hint of reproach that I put my purse in a place where children could reach it, that she moved my bag because her son was pulling things out of the pockets because of the attractive balloons.
How sad is it that the woman chose to move a stranger's purse rather than just tell her kid to leave it alone?
Posted by me at April 12, 2007 9:34 PM
Comments
I'm just trying to wrap my head around the idea that there are parts of this country where people can leave their purses on the floor in public and they stay there. Round here, people haul their purses along when they go up for Communion at church, even.
But yes, "that's not yours, don't touch it" is a rule I expect most mothers to enforce, even with small toddlers.
Posted by: Summer at April 13, 2007 10:25 AM
I dont think I would have moved someone else's purse, I would have told my kid not to touch it.
That being said, I don't think it's such a big deal that she moved your purse, but it's the reasoning behind it. I mean instead of it being your fault that you put your purse in a bad place, it should be that she needed to move it so her son wouldnt mess with it. Like her saying "it would be helpful to me so I dont have to control my kid" instead of "you put a temptation out for my kid" kind of thing.
Posted by: Beck at April 13, 2007 2:52 PM
I didn't think it was a big deal that she moved it, just odd that she would take up with a stranger over taking control of her own kid. I wasn't offended, just confused. And no one wants to admit that they don't want to bother to control their kid :)
Posted by: Becky at April 13, 2007 9:58 PM