The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77515   Message #1384640
Posted By: gnu
21-Jan-05 - 04:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Weird news & true stories
Subject: RE: BS: Weird news & true stories
I was at the Coop a couple of hours ago and had just joined a checkout lane when I heard a scraping noise behind me. A young lad of about ten years was pushing a grocery cart into a large freestanding candy display. He continued to push the display dispite the obvious fact that he was in danger of damaging it. I remarked out loud that it was rather ridiculous that the boy, if so stunned or ill-intentioned, would not be more closely supervised. His father, not three feet from me, gruffly asked me what my problem was. At that very moment, I was able to reply, "I don't have a problem, do you ?", because the display had toppled directly upon the young lad and his cart, knocking him to the ground with force. When I checked out I told the cashier I would be only to happy to be a witness if a lawsuit ensued. Don't you just want to slap some people ?