Assault and Battery
I bought 2 cheap Christmas lights necklaces for Bella at TJ Maxx. Stupid me. I needed SIX button batteries. The batteries cost $6 EACH at CVS (but flu shots are free!) $36 was not happening. I turned to Amazon and bought a pack of six for under $10.They arrived three weeks ago. I tucked them away. It took me five days to find them, finally, on Christmas Eve, in the St. Nick of time. (Upside, my closet has never been tidier after the searches.) The battery case required a tiny screwdriver and was covered in warnings. Achtung, Baby! I needed scissors, an Exact-O knife, a scalpel and a partridge in a pear tree to extract each battery from the packaging. I fumbled the batteries into the case, the necklace lit up. Seizure mode, slower seizure mode and just plain on.
As I went to throw out the package, I was astounded by the warnings printed. The batteries are as small as M&Ms, and clearly horribly toxic if ingested.
If only every danger to children had the same level of concern.
Then we'd all light up.
Yes, Mark Leo, if only new mothers knew to skip "wellness checkups"; that most of them are just toxic injections appointments. You can weigh your child yourself, you can check their height on your own. I bet you can weigh your baby by weighing yourself with a digital scale, write down the number, then pick up your baby, write down the number and the difference is the baby's weight. And breastfed baby's weight is going to be normally less than formula fed and depending on genetics.
Posted by: lorim | December 27, 2024 at 05:09 PM
Crazy isn’t it?!
Posted by: 4Bobby | December 26, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Funny! I always think of the Lucky Charms cereal story - illnesses get reported and a recall is issued. Not so for vaccines. And, like you mentioned, they are “free!” What is more evil? A vaccine or a wellness checkup?
Posted by: MarkLeo | December 26, 2024 at 08:47 AM