Posted by JRSutton on June 21, 2013 at 09:54:06 from (75.130.109.233):
In Reply to: O/T Another rant... posted by jhilyer on June 21, 2013 at 06:51:43:
A couple of years ago I was in a home depot - a mother pushing her kid around in the shopping cart. Kid's probably 3 - 4 years old at the most - standing in the cart.
Mother's OBLIVIOUS - talking to her friend - looking around.
Just leaves the kid standing there while she's off looking at something around the corner in the next aisle.
First of all - in this day and age, do you really abandon your kid in a store? With some strange man (me) standing nearby???
But the more immediate danger (since at least *I* know I'm not a danger) - the store is LOADED with "do not let children stand in carts" "tipping hazard" signs, and other such messages - they even recite them over and over again over the speakers, constantly drilling it into your head.
but there's little johnny - standing in a shopping cart - all alone in the plumbing aisle.
Not only is he STANDING in the cart - he's leaning WAY over to try to reach something on a shelf.
Now I can see what's about to happen...
BUT - and it's sick you have to consider such things....
but do I go over and hold the cart so he doesn't flip? What's this woman going to say when she comes around the corner and I'm standing there holding the cart with her kid in it? All of a sudden *I* will be the bad guy and probably get arrested.
Or do I just turn and walk away?
I erred on the side of saving the kid's skull. (though perhaps I should have let evolution run its course...?)
The mother did not come back. I told the kid to sit, and I went to find the mother.
I explained to her what happened and that she might want to take the kid out of the cart. She just shrugged me off like I was being rude.
Not 5 minutes later I'm walking down another aisle - there they are - kid's standing in the cart. Mother's chatting with friend. Kid's reaching for another item on the shelf - and SHOCKER - the cart flips over.
LUCKY for the kid - the shelf stopped him from going flat on his face. It slowed his fall.
Mother grabbed the kid and starts screeching at him "see - see how stupid that was - that wasn't very smart was it".
... I at least got the satisfaction of having her see me standing there shaking my head.
But what else can you do.
The real sick thing is, if that kid HAD broken his skull open, you KNOW that woman would have stopped in at a lawyers office on her way to the hospital. AND she would have won a huge settlement.
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