Tuesdays or Wednesdays are Shopping Days or, My Life with Aquatic Biology

[janradder]

As I travel the aisles of our local grocery stores, I have with me two remoras attached to the shopping cart.  These are not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill  remoras, however.  Instead of passively moving along with the cart as most remoras do, they battle me for control of said object, pushing and pulling against the direction in which I am heading.  If I leave the cart unattended, they begin to move it along on their own into oncoming people and stationary displays.  At times one or both will detach from the cart and start to wander vaguely about, oblivious to the fact that the cart has moved on and that they are placing themselves in the path of oncoming carts and people.  When it is time to load the groceries into the trunk of the car, the remoras once again detach and position themselves directly in front of the trunk so that I have to lift the bags up over them.  Don't believe what you may have heard or read elsewhere -- remoras are not helpful animals.

Comments

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

I couldn't really bring myself to spank in public, because I was abused, in my estimation, via excess of corporal punishment, and all I could think about was the humiliation aspect to doing that.

I don't really have any dire judgements for parents who do that, though, unless it's pretty clear that it's part of a general "Ignore the brat, ignore the brat, ignore the brat...EXPLODE!" strategy. I've seen how well that one works, with my sister and her friends.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I was, too, and I vividly remember the humiliation factor. The initial spanking was when Arie was trying to run into the street, and frankly if I hadn't been so scared it probably wouldn't have happened.

I use it anyway, though.

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

"The initial spanking was when Arie was trying to run into the street, and frankly if I hadn't been so scared it probably wouldn't have happened."

Oh, well - trying to keep a kid from destroying himself? Yeah, a little demonstrative pain can be in order, there.