A 3 year old! Went to Lowe's on Sunday looking for bolts for DH to fix the easel (it's only been broken since Christmas, but really, who's counting!). I took the 3 year old (because I am a nice person and forgot why I like to shop without the kids) so that Mr. Clutter could make a path in the garage to the breaker box. There are many reasons why I should not be sent to a hardware store looking for items, the first and foremost one, I haven't a CLUE about screws, bolts or whatever it is you sent me after.
Anyway, in my being confused and trying to figure out what bolt I needed, the 3 year old was in the cart playing with the bins of bolts, I told him to quit and to not put those baggies of bolts in the basket, we didn't need them and they were the wrong size.
Finally, SCORE, I found the right thing just as he says "I need to go to the bathroom" (paybacks I know from when I was little, there wasn't a store that I didn't know where the bathroom was!). Off we go to the bathroom. When we get there I go to grab my purse and as I am doing so, I see many packages of bolts IN MY PURSE, yikes. I panic, I know for sure someone is on there way to nab me for shoplifting. I quickly pull them out of my purse, put them in the cart and very sternly tell the 3 year old just why we don't put stuff in mommy's purse. To which he replies "I was just borrowing them. You told me not to put them in the cart" UUUUUUUUGGH, yes your right BUT you could've made mommy go to jail for stealing. Don't think he fully understood the whole thing but was very upset that those packages of bolts weren't making the trip home with us!
And this is why I don't shop with the kids, especially by myself!! At least with another set of eyes, things like this probably would not happen!
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