Daily Adventures

Yesterday afternoon we went to Costco. We were out of the usuals: water and paper towels. We were only there about 15 mins. But in that time, we still managed to make a scene. Anden was admiring the Tonka Truck display (box after box of trucks stacked on top of each other in the center aisle). My cart, including Taylee, was unknowingly parked too close to a nearby Christmas tree and thus she was trying her hardest to pull the light bulbs off the tree. I turned my attention from Anden to Taylee to quickly prevent her from pulling the 12 ft tree, adorned with glass ornaments, over. While I fought off her tiny tight grip, I glanced back at Anden. Right at that moment I saw the Leaning Tower of Trucks. Time froze and before I could yell or dive, the display of boxes containing hard Tonka trucks came crashing down on him!! And of course he looked up to see what was happening right as it crashed on his forehead and knocked him to the ground. He immediately started wailing and all of the fellow customers stopped dead in their tracks. Not to help, of course, but to stare at the poor pathetic mother that has no control of her kids and is rudely disrupting their economy size shopping experience. I immediately dug through the wreckage to salvage my son. He looked up at me with big tears in his clear blue eyes. The damage was already appearing. There were 2 horizontal blood blisters popping up on his forehead and multiple scratches and scrapes all over the rest of his forehead. I was less than pleased! How many kids have touched that display during the day?? But yet my kid is the only one that gets smashed by it??! Where was Costco's fiduciary duty? I gathered my wounded soldiers and loaded them into the cart. I was on a mission to find a manager. Negligence suit here we come! Costco's paying for Christmas this year!

After explaining the scenario. We were handsomely rewarded. Anden received a sincere apology complete with a baggie full of ice and a paper towel. After his whimper of dissatisfaction, he was given a small paper cup to fill up with ice from the soda dispenser machine. He marched over and overfilled his cup with ice and then glanced back while proceeding to top it off with Pink Lemonade. Hhmph we showed them didn't we?! We grabbed our free soda, baggie of ice, paper towel, and marched on out of there. Don't mess with the Harbecks.