.... Its March Already?!?

And I haven't blogged in like FOREVER!! I've twittered pretty frequently, and while it's sorta the same, sometimes I need more than 140 characters to tell a story.

Like for instance, how I think I may have inadvertently mentally messed up a kid today.

Yeah.

SO while I was shopping this afternoon, this little boy having a temper tantrum and his mother screaming at him to stop. So there I am, filtering through dresses and thinking "How would I wear this" when out of nowhere, I hear the mom screech "I'm going to give you away!!" She then pulls me completely out of my shopping trance by tapping my shoulder and asking "WOULD YOU WANT A LITTLE BOY?"

Let me just say that when she asked me it, she winked. There was no actual attempt to barter her child and it actually reminded me of when I was a kid. Whenever my sister and I would fight, my mom would threaten to separate us and give one of us away to my Auntie in Pico Rivera. I know now that my mom wouldn't actually have separate us but back then, the threat scared us sh*tless and made us not fight (for that time being anyways.)

So here I am perusing my local TJ MAXX, and I was just offererd a child. The little boy is looking at me and is probably wondering if life with me will better. He sniffs a bit and waits for my answer. I right then and there CHANNELLED MY OWN MOTHER and asked the mom back "Well, is he a good boy??"

"No."

"Oh sorry... no thank you."

The mom then turns to the pouty boy and says "SEE. No one wants you."

Pouty boy cries bloody hell and I'm thinking "OH MY GOODNESS!! I HAVE RUINED THIS CHILD!! I should have said 'Yes!! I have laundry that needs folding and my car needs washing!'" I could have been like Angelina!

I know this is all about discipline and in the end, he'll learn that being good is waaaaay better than being bad. But it still sucks to freak out and think that no one wants you. I'm 29 and the idea itself is pretty damn scary. Then again, if not now, then there might be a Maury show just for him. Adult men who have temper tantrums while still shopping with their mothers.

Yeah, better to nip it in the bud now.