QUESTION: how many cleaners - momentarily distracted by a low flying dove - does it take to send a smallish child - completely distracted by having the time of her life skating up and down the aisles of The Store as fast as she can on a pair of Heelys - careering off course and into a wall?
ANSWER: just the one (me).
Thankfully, said smallish child was unhurt, and even more thankfully, there appeared to be no parent nearby ready to scream at me.
All the same, though, after checking that the little girl was alright - which she was. A little stunned, but otherwise healthy - I gathered my equipment and took my leave in a hurry, just in case.
This incident, however, raises more questions:
1. why do so many (so-called) parents allow their children to race up and down in crowded places completely. unsupervised? Surely, even when not in a potentially dangerous place like The Store I work in, that is terribly treacherous?
2. yesterday's child may have been lucky, but how many children - along with innocent passersby - to date have been injured in accidents associated with Heelys? And how serious an injury would it take to be for the imbecilic product* to be taken off the shelves? Does a child actually have to die?
Anybody with answers to either of those, would you please get in touch?
Ta.
B.C.B.F.L.B x
* should anybody stumbling across this Blog be offended by my comments regarding Heelys, I have the following to say:
a) there is a time and a place for pretty much everything, but with regards to skating; in an enclosed space, littered with large immovable objects (many of them with very sharp edges) and surrounded by crowds of people is not one of them.
b) I am thinking primarily of the safety of the children involved, here. To me, at least, the idea of little heads being cracked open on shelves is an unpleasantly realistic one.
c) bite me.
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