So, I was in the supermarket yesterday, and there was a toddler screaming unbelievably loudly and seemingly endlessly. This was one of the worst episodes I've ever heard in my life (and that's saying a lot!), and the kid never seemed to tire. Even other parents in the store were shooting annoyed looks at the child and especially at his mother, who didn't appear to be doing anything to try to calm her child down.
As the young cashier was ringing up my purchases while the screaming child was with his mother at the next check-out, the cashier suddenly said to me, "After listening to that kind of thing all day, I swear I'm never having kids. I'll get a puppy, but I will not have kids!"
I replied, "I know exactly how you feel!"
I'm very amused that she said that to me. I wonder how she knew I was a safe person to say it to.
Perhaps she telepathically sensed my own childfree views. Or perhaps she saw the broccoli, bulgur, pine nuts, plain fat-free yogurt, boneless skinless chicken breasts, brown rice, mixed field greens, low-sodium V8 juice and healthy organic cereal I was buying, while at the same time noticing the absense of things like Cheetos, strings of fruit leather, breaded chicken nuggets, hot dogs and popcicles, and deduced that my household is not a kid-friendly one.
I think it's far more likely, however, that at that moment, she was just so irritated that she would have blurted out her controversial thoughts to anyone who happened to be standing there. It's just a good thing it happened to be me.
As the young cashier was ringing up my purchases while the screaming child was with his mother at the next check-out, the cashier suddenly said to me, "After listening to that kind of thing all day, I swear I'm never having kids. I'll get a puppy, but I will not have kids!"
I replied, "I know exactly how you feel!"
I'm very amused that she said that to me. I wonder how she knew I was a safe person to say it to.
Perhaps she telepathically sensed my own childfree views. Or perhaps she saw the broccoli, bulgur, pine nuts, plain fat-free yogurt, boneless skinless chicken breasts, brown rice, mixed field greens, low-sodium V8 juice and healthy organic cereal I was buying, while at the same time noticing the absense of things like Cheetos, strings of fruit leather, breaded chicken nuggets, hot dogs and popcicles, and deduced that my household is not a kid-friendly one.
I think it's far more likely, however, that at that moment, she was just so irritated that she would have blurted out her controversial thoughts to anyone who happened to be standing there. It's just a good thing it happened to be me.