Piggysnoot

Note to the irresponsible grandmother I saw with her grandchild at the post office today: Your grandchild may be wonderful and delightful when he’s not in public, but if he is splayed out on the post office floor screaming and kicking the person in line behind you, YOU NEED TO STOP HIM. You can’t just say “Ben, stand up and quit kicking,” a hundred million times without bothering to turn around and see if he has listened to you or not. While we’re talking about this, how nasty is it that you let him crawl around on the post office floor in the first place? And before you entered the post office…you know, when he was running away from you on the sidewalk of a very busy street…calling his name fifty times and telling him to stop…didn’t work. In the future you’ll probably want to give chase in some form because he could’ve been hit by a car before you called his name for the tenth time. One more thing and then I’ll be done with you: Ben needs to be in a car seat…or at the very least he should not be in the front seat. After witnessing this I made sure to tell my mother the following, “If you ever put my four year old, less than 40 pound child, in the front seat of your car where your airbag can kill him…it’s probably going to be the last time you babysit.” What is wrong with people?