Sandy Navas
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. . . one of those stories that winds up being "well, you should have been there."
One night last week I went with our daughter to pick up some diapers for the new baby. We each had a shopping cart and I had two children, she had one. The baby and her oldest daughter remained in the car waiting for us.
As we went through the baby aisles, her two year old (who is crazy about rubber duckies) spotted a large rubber duck outfitted as a fireman. It was quite large, made to slip over a bathtub faucet to protect someone from banging into it. At almost $20 for a piece of plastic, I opted to find one smaller with the fireman outfit and she was quite pleased that I'd buy it for her.
During the remainder of our shopping tour she managed to take the cardboard wrapper off the duck even though I had told her she couldn't play with it until I had paid for it. As we approached the check-out counter, the six year old spotted some gum and asked if I'd buy her some. The two year old decided then that she wanted some gum, too. I explained that she had the rubber duck and didn't need any gum. Well, that caused a storm.
At the top of her lungs she told the whole store: "Don't pay for it." "Don't pay for it." "Nana, I don't want that STUPID DUCK!!!" "If you buy me that STUPID DUCK, I'm going to throw it in the trashcan!!!"
My daughter, at another check-out, told the cashier: "What's wrong with people now days that they can't control their children?"
We've laughed over this so many times and I still crack up
when I remember it.
Hope you all get a kick out of children's antics.
One night last week I went with our daughter to pick up some diapers for the new baby. We each had a shopping cart and I had two children, she had one. The baby and her oldest daughter remained in the car waiting for us.
As we went through the baby aisles, her two year old (who is crazy about rubber duckies) spotted a large rubber duck outfitted as a fireman. It was quite large, made to slip over a bathtub faucet to protect someone from banging into it. At almost $20 for a piece of plastic, I opted to find one smaller with the fireman outfit and she was quite pleased that I'd buy it for her.
During the remainder of our shopping tour she managed to take the cardboard wrapper off the duck even though I had told her she couldn't play with it until I had paid for it. As we approached the check-out counter, the six year old spotted some gum and asked if I'd buy her some. The two year old decided then that she wanted some gum, too. I explained that she had the rubber duck and didn't need any gum. Well, that caused a storm.
At the top of her lungs she told the whole store: "Don't pay for it." "Don't pay for it." "Nana, I don't want that STUPID DUCK!!!" "If you buy me that STUPID DUCK, I'm going to throw it in the trashcan!!!"
My daughter, at another check-out, told the cashier: "What's wrong with people now days that they can't control their children?"
We've laughed over this so many times and I still crack up
when I remember it.Hope you all get a kick out of children's antics.
