23 August 2007

let's all go to the home depot!

(depot pronounced deh-po. it's a throwback to an old trip to long beach after freshman year. a time i cherish yet wish had never happened. i was 19, okay? 'nough said.)



morgan and i made our weekly sojourn to our beloved diy warehouse last night. (we are very poor judges of how much paint it takes to cover a small kitchen, what can i say?) as we were checking out, there was a little mommy and her three kids in line next to us. she had a little boy about 4yrs old, one about 2 1/2, and a baby girl in a carseat. the three of them were on one of the lumber carts, with the flatbed and siderails. the baby was in the very middle and the boys were using the siderails like alexi nemov would use the parallel bars at the olympics. directly over the baby. the mommy seemed completely oblivious to the situation. and even more oblivious to what happened next. the 2 1/2yr old had dismounted (i gave him a 6.5, as it was more of a falling-off than a dismount) and was just standing next to the cart. standing there. and PEEING! he pissed all over the cement floor next to us. mor and i realized what was happening before the mommy did, but when she saw him peeing all over himself, she started yelling "gavin! gavin! gavin! no! no! no!" and picked him up and ran outside with him. while the 4yr old continued his sub-par parallel bar routine over the baby, who actually got kicked in the head at least twice that i actually saw. the mommy returned a few minutes later, with gavin and his saggy pants following behind her. i'll tell you one thing, i'm never going barefoot into the home depot ever again. well, at least not until i know they sprayed that pee-spot down with some bleach first.

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