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Miranda's avatar

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??)

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Janet's avatar

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

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Miranda's avatar

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.

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Crankypants Hangry Lady's avatar

I always wonder about the retail employees that work through bankruptcy. I can imagine her enthusiasm.

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Janet's avatar

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"

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Emily B's avatar

Scout and Japhy! Be still my target mom heart! :')

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Claire Zulkey's avatar

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. )

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Janet's avatar

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?"

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Claire Zulkey's avatar

all babies would get foot frostbite if not for concerned bubbes

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LF's avatar

I truly guffawed when I got to the part "I didn't want you to get arrested."

I love kid logic so much.

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Janet's avatar

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!

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LF's avatar

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!

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Janet's avatar

Oh YEAH, no one wins in family court

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Holly P's avatar

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"

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Janet's avatar

LOVE, have not seen that lol, but come to think of it japhs prob was groovin to hamilton at the time

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Mara Gordon, MD's avatar

Oof. Visceral memories of those early pandemic days... <3

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Janet's avatar

oh yeah! always need enough TP and wipes to get through an apocalypse

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