Abandon shop

Just had an interesting morning at the shops. Catherine and I were out and about on our usual Friday morning, running random errands and having “squeezy yogurt” and coffee. I noticed she got a few looks and realised it was probably because of her scabby nose and mouth. She had a trip and fall at childcare yesterday. We ran into one of Phil’s cousins and had a pleasant chat before we went to our last stop at Aldi. Then Catherine found a Disney princess art tub set she just had to have. Usually I’m able to convince or distract her otherwise, but nothing worked this time.

She had quite a tantrum and it was the first time we had to abandon shop. I had some stuff in a shopping bag, but had to leave them behind. A nice Aldi guy gave me a box to dump everything in so we were able to just get the hell out of there. Lots of people gave us looks and we only got one sympathetic comment from an older man. It was an interesting situation to be in and to see how people reacted.

I’m happy to report that I kept calm. I was probably more amused than anything. It just took me by suprise how quickly this happened from what seem to come from nowhere. We had to sit in the car for a while before Catherine settled down. It didn’t take too long after we left the store.