I really don’t think a child who is old enough to walk around should be taken into a store, barefooted.  You know, like the little boy in Sam’s Club tonight?  His small feet were filthy, and in a store he might have stepped on something sharp, or picked up germs from all the thousands of strangers’ shoes, or had his little toes run over by a heavy cart, or just stubbed those bare toes on something.  I’m sure his mother would have had plenty to say if the child had injured himself because his feet were bare.

 

Of course, if his mother had required him to stay strapped into the kiddie seat in the cart, I might not even have noticed the bare feet.

 

But running around loose and out of control like that. . . . people noticed.

 

I also think it’s stealing if you open a package of food and start eating it before you pay for it.  Until it’s paid for, it’s not yours.  And this goes double for grapes, berries, etc. Triple for cookies or doughnuts that are sold by the dozen.  Don’t even THINK about opening that sack of counted items until it’s legally yours. 

 

Please.  Put shoes on your child before you take him out and let him touch those feet to the floor in a public place or someone else’s home, and pay for your merchandise before you dive into it.

 

I’m just sayin’.