Kaitlyn and I went to the Mall this morning, so I could return a pair of shoes to Penney’s. We stopped at Barnes and Noble so she could play with the trains and those books that have the buttons you can press that play obnoxiously loud music-I refuse to buy them, so I let her play with them in the store instead :)

After we left Penney’s, we were walking back down the Mall to the exit and we passed Claire’s. They had a bin right outside the entrance that was full of fifty percent off little kids’ backpacks. Kaitlyn pointed to a Hello Kitty one, I don’t even know how she knows who that is, but it caught her eye. She then walked away, and this girl walked up, she was maybe 15 or 16, and she was with another lady. The girl picked up the Hello Kitty backpack and said to the other lady, “would this make a good present for (didn’t catch the name)?” The other lady said, “I don’t know, how old is (name I still didn’t catch)? Isn’t she two or three?”

So then I pipe up, totally butting in on their conversation, and say to the lady, “if the present is for a two or three year old, that backpack would be cute. You could put in some crayons, some lip gloss, a little hairbrush, she would love it”.

Whoa NELLIE! Who am I to be giving out parent advice uninvited, to total strangers? What kind of FREAK am I?

Fortunately, neither the lady nor the teen girl looked at me like I was insane, instead saying “oh, thanks!” before going to buy the backpack. But geez, I’ve become that scary lady in stores who just starts talking to you like you are friends or something! See what happens when you start getting asked to give your opinions on products? You start giving your opinion to EVERYONE! lol

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