Ever make a decision that at first you think will be so much fun and then 5 seconds into it you wish it had never popped into your head? I do this pretty much on a daily basis but my most recent disaster involves the grocery store, three days before Thanksgiving.
Liam and I had to go to the grocery store to pick up just a few things completely unrelated to Thanksgiving preparations. As we walked into the store I spotted those carts with the plastic toy car or truck at the front and thought, "Liam will love that, we only have to pick up a few things so we will be in and out and he will get such a thrill from riding in that car."
We have never picked up this type of cart before and within 10 seconds I realized my bad decision.
1. This cart does not turn. It's like the wheels are only designed to go straight, forward or backward. If you want to make a turn you literally have to put your whole body weight into making a gigantic circle.
2. Three days before Thanksgiving means there are at least 50 extra people in the store that would not normally be there on a Monday night. Correction, no one goes to the grocery store on a Monday. So maybe I should say an extra 75-100 people in the store.
3. The super annoying squeaky horn that your son constantly pushes. And since it should fit two children there are two steering wheels which means two super annoying squeaky horns.
4. There are no restraining belts in the car. So that means Liam was literally sticking his hands and legs outside the "windows and doors" and turning in circles in his seat.
5. While pushing this cart my son decides to start singing the jock jams hit, 'Move it, Move it', It goes like this, "I like to move it, move it, you like to move it, move it, etc." except all you can hear is Liam saying "move it move it" and honking that annoying little horn. I'm sure everyone we were passing was thinking that his parents clearly have road rage and he is mimicking their behavior.
6. As discussed in #1 as I was trying to make turns to go down the very few aisles that we need items in I was trying to avoid hitting other people and their carts. In doing this I almost took out 3 displays that were in the middle of the aisle.
7. As I tell this story to my husband late that night and can barely get the words out because I am laughing so hard, he will think that I have completely lost my mind.
8. We will never get this cart again and my son will ask to get in it
every single time. And for someone who has never driven it themselves, they will stare at me as I tell my son no way and he is screaming his head off, and think I am the worst mother in the world.
