Bad Parent Sightings: Cell Phone Walking
Today, I went to pick up coffee from the Starbucks next to our neighborhood Safeway. What did I behold while there? A woman with four kids, none older than seven, ushering them across the parking lot with one hand. What was she doing with the other hand? Why, gabbing on her cell phone, of course. What else would you be doing when the safety of four precious children has been placed in your hands? Geez. As if there’s any phone call on Earth so necessary that you can’t wait until you’re out of the path of oncoming traffic to take it.
Of course, I’m sure people were thinking similar things about me when they saw me come out of Starbucks with my two-year-old son in my sling and two scalding hot lattes in my hands. But we weren’t TALKING about ME, now, were we??
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Camille
Oct 26, 2005 at 9:54 am
I had my own bad parenting sighting yesterday.
I was getting my son’s pictures taken and there was a mom with four tired, cranky children, ranging from probably six months to six years, paying for her pictures. After much fumbling, she finally gathered her children and their paraphernalia and left. A few minutes later she returned by herself to purchase one more picture. She left her children buckled in the car, alone. I know this because she told the cashier that she needed to hurry because of that reason. Maybe I’m just anal but I was aghast at the thought of leaving such young children alone in a parking lot of a busy mall in a major metro area. I enjoy your sight, mostly with pure disgust. I had to laugh at last paragraph of this post. Haha!