If you’re keeping up with my blogs…no trip to the outlet malls L. I decided to wait a weekend because I will be driving up to Columbus next weekend anyways for the team I coach; figured I’ll be passing by there and that I might as well save on the gas (we all know that feeling). I did make a stop at Panera though…… mmmm I could live off their carb guzzling food, which is where I got my inspiration for this blog.

I was sitting in Panera waiting for my roommate to arrive and there were three mothers who met for lunch there with their kids. One of the kids was just running around the table in circles over and over again. Then he would run the length of the carpet runner right up to the front door and do a karate kick as he got to the door. I was just thinking, “my goodness, how can the mom’s just continue to jibber jabber back and forth and not notice what the heck the child is doing?” This among many other fist curling incidents that I have run across have really forced me to think that obeying rules and teaching manners at a young age have completely slipped through the cracks. It’s almost comical to think back and just imagine this kid running around and doing a karate kick. I’m a very conscious person of what is going on around me and the place that I get most annoyed at it the grocery.

Everyone is in their own little world just getting the things off their list. I do think people drive crazier with a grocery cart than they do with a car. I feel like the same rules apply in the aisles as the roads. You get to the end of an aisle and you peek your cart out to see if anyone is coming…look left….look right…clear…go! But no one else seems to make the connections. It’s like a free for all and I get reaallllllllly frustrated. So, the grocery and I don’t mix too well and I try to steer clear.

In a perfect world for me the grocery would have a time where it was only me shopping, no crazy drivers, no kids running lose and touching all the fruit, and a quiet peaceful place. But, that won’t happen. Reality sets in and I just have to get over the fact that kids today are most wild and families are running a fee free circus……until things settle down I’ll just keep looking at these situations and laughing.