To the People Who Can’t Be Bothered by My Kids at the Grocery Store
8 years ago Fiona Watkins
To the Grumpy People at the Grocery Store,
Life can be a real pain in the ass. I get it. Sometimes things don't go our way, sometimes we're busy, and sometimes we're in bad moods for no real reason. Everyone is allowed to feel those things, but you also need things to help pull you out of the moods and moments. And you know what the perfect thing for that is? The innocence of a sweet child.
It happens more frequently than it used to — my kids get so excited by a passing stranger in the store for whatever reason, and that person blows right past them without even a smile, either with their head buried in their phone or a serious look on their face that tells the world they don't want to be bothered.
You see, my kids — my daughter in particular — have been training for either a career in politics or as the future Miss America since they were little. When we go to the grocery store, I place my 3-year-old daughter in the cart, and she immediately wants to try to "ma..