People and their love affairs with their cart

ok - i love target. i do. i must confess, i love target. well, i should add a caveat to that... i love it on sundays at 9am when no one is there. i love it best then. but today while i was shopping i saw something and realized that i would make a very bad parent. well, that's a huge jump i know from loving target to being a bad parent... well you see i am willing to leave my cart. i am willing to park my cart in a safe, close location so that i don't drag it through the clothing section - or down an aisle that is busy. let me offer some context. i was shopping for some workout clothing (different story) and didn't want to pull/push/fight my cart through the very tight section. so i 'parked' my cart next to the sports bras and went off in search of workout pants (another rant altogether). While looking at a variety of things, i noticed numerous women drag their practically empty carts through the smallest of spaces between racks... it was awful (yet terribly amuzing) to watch these women push their carts through the section and knock clothes down along the way. they left behind a wake of destruction only a tornado or hurricane can bring down upon local residents. These women couldn't bear to leave their carts behind. even at the fitting room area, women would drag their cart and leave it right at the door - of course it meant she got a room as the rest of us couldn't get near the area - but i'm sure that's merely a pleasant (for her) side effect.
it was when i pondered this a little longer (and saw it more and more frequently) that i realized i could be a bad parent. would i leave my child somewhere so that i wouldn't drag them down the tiny aisle?? would i be that parent who left their child in the car? i'm pretty sure i'd NEVER do that... but what did it say about my parenting style? or does it mean nothing at all and i am just ranting because people like to have the convenience of their cart at hand and it inconveniences the rest of us?
perhaps.
well, being the optimist girl i am - i'm going to assume that these lovely ladies had no idea of the destruction they brought to the rest of us - although is ignorance much better?
i still *heart* target - even if i don't *heart* people.

the times they are a changin'

i just have a moment to blog - i saw something that intices me to write... a teacher being fired for showing a segment of an r-rated movie to a class of 5th graders... the movie was 'Amistad' the clip was of a slave ship. in the 8th grade (maybe 9th - but i don't think so) my math teacher showed us 'Pretty Woman'. Now you may think to yourself - how does relate to math. It doesn't and she didn't try to make it. She wanted to show us the film and we obliged. We weren't to tell our parents and we enjoyed it.
Now, a teacher being fired for showing students a portion of an R-rated film for educational purposes... i can't begin to explain how this is wrong on so many levels. How many parents allow their children younger than 10 to see R-rated films? I recall buying tickets for something quite R-rated with parents and kids in tow behind me getting the same thing. It bothers me that this teacher used a resource and was fired. They didn't follow the 'chain of command' to show the clip - but in today's world teachers need to up their game to keep up with the shortening attention span of children. They are used to the constant bombardment of television, movies, music - i'm sure that most of these kids had been shown or allowed to see worse via their parents. again, i know, not the point - but it really irritates me that a teacher trying to teach was disciplined for it. should we no longer talk about death tolls in war? that's reality and we talk about it at a very young age.
well, it is only 7am and i'm already ranting...