I would like to share with you a story, that happened to me yesterday. I was in Dillards, going down the escalators. As I am coming down, another family is going up on the escalators across from me. I over hear the mom, telling the 5 year old, " You need to tie up your laces on your shoes, or you will get stuck." As I over heard this, I could help but think of the trauma that will cause the young child later in life.
I have a similar story to the young child. I remember going up the escalators in ZCMI and my mom would always tell me of the story about the girl that got her hair stuck in the escalator and died. Now my mom might not remember that story, but I sure do. I have noticed that on the "Morris" side we tend to be over-reactors. It seems to me, alot of stories get blown out of proportion. That story about the girl, probably was not even true... but being OCD makes me have a great imagination. So I wonder, if my mom was saying something to that effect, and I happen to imagine it all in my head. Even if the whole thing did not happen, I have always been really careful with my hair on the escalators.
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2 comments:
Bean, I think my mom has told me that EXACT same story....on the ZCMI elevators also! I feel your pain.
Just 3 days ago I told Hope to sit back in her car seat or else we would get pulled over and the policeman and he would yell at her.
Russ looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Couldn't you have just said, 'sit back--it's not safe?'"
WELL SURE I COULD HAVE but MY MOM instilled fear in me and I am apparently doing the very same thing. Glad we're observing the same things.
It's a Morris thing.
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