all.growns.up

I’d rather not get started about the bus that never came, the firemen rescuing the people stuck in the elevator that I would have been in had the bus come, and sitting for 5 hours in a room with 183 other people (who mostly resembled the cast of The Sopranos, save for a few Js) on the 11th floor to discuss with a judge a violation for which I know nothing about, issued to someone I’ve never met.

I found a stray Levee cheese puff from Saturday night at the bottom of my tote in the middle of this hellish day and it made me smile.

I saw a kid on a leash this morning (in Park Slope of course, where else?). Really it was more of a harness. Actually it was more of a harness disguised as a teddy bear backpack with some clever reinforcement straps and a leash on the front.

At first I thought “A kid on a leash. Man, thats kindof effed up.” Then the kid bolted up from his stroller perch and cut in front of me and took off across the sidewalk towards traffic. The nanny just sighed and tugged on the leash and he bounced back as if attached to a rubber band and I thought, you know what - I kindof like this “kid on a leash” idea.

If I ever have a child I am not putting it on a leash, but if the Park Slope mommies want to harness their children from the usual running amok on the sidewalk, then I’m all for it.