no-brainer parenting

As a parent myself, I find it really hard to understand how other parents think. I was at the mall yesterday, had to go there though I'd rather not, because my kids have a class there. As I was walking around, I heard coughing coming from all directions.

Finally at the grocery store, the ultimate happened. As I was picking out some tomatoes, I heard someone sneezing and then the sound of nose-blowing. I turned around and there was a mother holding a piece of tissue to her teenaged (possibly handicapped) son's nose and he was blowing furiously into it!! Eww!!

A few aisles down, at the frozen section, I saw a woman sneezing openly into the freezer!!! Wonderful! There was no shortage of babies in prams and kids running about either. Which leads me to wonder why parents never think of leaving their kids at home in times like these when the full-blown flu pandemic is on?

And then of course, my father tells me Kaa and Ursula have taken their two kids on holiday overseas! Ursula is an ah soh who blindly follows what everyone else does and they just want to brag about how rich they are to be able to afford a holiday overseas. Sure, why not, when air tickets are cheaper than free these days?!!!!