After a fun-filled evening of putting everything back in my cupboards, I woke up and headed to the laundromat to wash everything in my apartment. Mostly because my sheets smelled a bit like puppy and all my towels were dirty.
When I got to the laundromat, I was accosted by the sounds of small, So Not Well Behaved child’s screaming. He must have been five or six, was running rampant around the laundry and screaming at nothing. His parents: nowhere to be found.
As I was putting my clothes in the washer, over comes said Bad Child, grabs one of my bags and launches it into the trash can. WTF, Bad Child?
After I pulled my bag out of the garbage and filled four washing machines, I sat with a Very Nervous Luna who wasn’t sure what to make of this small screaming, running thing who wanted to sidle up to her and scream at her in Spanish. Poor Luna.
I would like to propose that in most public places, we should treat children the way we treat dogs. They’re far more likely to be loud, disruptive, destructive and disturbing than most dogs I know. So, just like dogs have to pass a test in order to be considered therapy dogs, assistance dogs, etc. and have access to public places, such as grocery stores, malls and so forth, so should children have to pass a behavioral test in order to go to these places.
Instead of No Dogs Allowed signs, let’s institute No Badly Behaved Creatures of Any Species signs.
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