JANET I have like 18 comments to make but I am going to edit myself down to one: Your TJs offers a lollipop option, does that mean mine does? Would that I had known this this morning! (I hate those cursed stickers why do grocery stores think kids want stickers??)
They absolutely must - all your kids need to do is yell WE FOUND PJ with no real joy and maybe a tiny bit of malice at the cashier - they’ll know what to do
OK one more I leave Nellie in the car pretty frequently these days for quick things (returning a lightbulb is an ex from today) and I think there's a weird sick part of me that just WANTS some grumpy old person to get into it with me about it.
yes!!!!!! There's something so perfectly absurd about it, standing in your empty shop waiting to sell nothing. I asked her the other day if they had stamps, and she said, "they haven't sent us stamps in a long time"
I was just thinking someone needs to start a pod/newsletter called "You should be glad someone cares!" lol.
STILL mad at the woman who gave my parents hell when James was a baby for letting him be peacefully fine in the car seat on a hot day (in the shade) at a baseball game. I'm glad I wasn't there to deal with her in person.
how dare your parents babysit capably! i'd forgotten about the "where are her SOCKS?" grandmas in brooklyn and the time a woman on a bus shouted down the aisle about scout in her Ergo, "is she breathing?"
JANET I have like 18 comments to make but I am going to edit myself down to one: Your TJs offers a lollipop option, does that mean mine does? Would that I had known this this morning! (I hate those cursed stickers why do grocery stores think kids want stickers??)
They absolutely must - all your kids need to do is yell WE FOUND PJ with no real joy and maybe a tiny bit of malice at the cashier - they’ll know what to do
OK one more I leave Nellie in the car pretty frequently these days for quick things (returning a lightbulb is an ex from today) and I think there's a weird sick part of me that just WANTS some grumpy old person to get into it with me about it.
I always wonder about the retail employees that work through bankruptcy. I can imagine her enthusiasm.
yes!!!!!! There's something so perfectly absurd about it, standing in your empty shop waiting to sell nothing. I asked her the other day if they had stamps, and she said, "they haven't sent us stamps in a long time"
Scout and Japhy! Be still my target mom heart! :')
I was just thinking someone needs to start a pod/newsletter called "You should be glad someone cares!" lol.
STILL mad at the woman who gave my parents hell when James was a baby for letting him be peacefully fine in the car seat on a hot day (in the shade) at a baseball game. I'm glad I wasn't there to deal with her in person.
(thank you for the shout out. )
how dare your parents babysit capably! i'd forgotten about the "where are her SOCKS?" grandmas in brooklyn and the time a woman on a bus shouted down the aisle about scout in her Ergo, "is she breathing?"
all babies would get foot frostbite if not for concerned bubbes
I truly guffawed when I got to the part "I didn't want you to get arrested."
I love kid logic so much.
She gets it!!!! lol I’ve also told japhy to “look happy” when I leave him in car seat. Btw I’ve read Kim Brooks Small Animals and we do arrest moms!
That book really fucked me up last year. My BIL is a child welfare attorney for the state — I absolutely grilled him when I finished it!
Oh YEAH, no one wins in family court
I'm reminded of that viral image of the dog in a car with the note on the window that said "a/c is on, he has water and he's listening to steely dan"
LOVE, have not seen that lol, but come to think of it japhs prob was groovin to hamilton at the time
Oof. Visceral memories of those early pandemic days... <3
oh yeah! always need enough TP and wipes to get through an apocalypse