After work tonight, I went buy Barnes and Noble to browse and pick up a few magazines [like music, I am addicted to magazines]. Anyway, while browsing I encountered ......

1. This child who cried and screamed very loudly from one side of the store and then to the other. Finally, his father picked him up and walked BACK across the store and out the front door. Now I understand that parents can not control if their child starts to throw a screaming fit in the store. But a parent can provide enough control to pull the kid out the store, therefore, causing himself and the child much less embarassment.

And can someome please tell me why children under 5 have to cry / scream / sqeal in the highest pitch their little voices can hit?

2. While I'm in the check out line, this woman [and her party consisting of another woman and a man] come right up to the register demanding that the cashier call 911 because the woman does not feel good. So the nervous cashier calls 911 and then hands the phone to distraught looking man. Unfortunately the man does not know what street they are on, what outdoor mall, etc. SO, the sick woman gets on the phone and starts saying, "I am having a heart attack! You have to come now! What is your name? Who is your superior? Get the ambulance here now!" Then she hands the phone back and walks outside with her party.

After I finish paying, the distraught man comes back into the store and aks the cashier if he can get on the store communicator and ask if there is a doctor available. Fortunately for the cashier, one of his associates had just come to the front and said, "Sir, you'll have to go to the customer service desk. They will help you there."

I have to hand it to the ambulance .. they arrived in 5 minutes.