Doing The Right Thing

Posted on 07 02, 2006 under The Manual by wahoodad | Comments

As Crosby Stills & Nash implored, teach your children
well. Some of the most important lessons you can teach your kid revolve
around how to act in public. Fortunately, with the increasing lack of
basic civility among us, every trip to Home Depot, the grocery store,
or anywhere else Joe Public converges provides you with a perfect
classroom for these lessons.

On a recent trip to the grocery
store around Mother’s Day, my boys and I encountered a charming woman
near the expanded flower shop area. While passing by an aisle narrowed
by an additional row of display tables filled with last-minute-gifts,
the basket the woman carried hit a small potted plant and it smashed to
the ground. She had two kids with her, probably somewhere between 11
and 14 years old. “JEE-ZUZ CHRIST!” she yelped. “You break it, you buy
it!” laughed one of the kids.
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