The one thing that makes me cry inside.
So I was at the mall Thursday shopping for some new shoes and I witnessed the one thing that makes me madder than anything else. I was in Babbage's checking out the new video games and I heard a baby crying. Usually when I hear a baby cry it makes me very sad and I have to get away, but this time it was much much worse. I'll explain. Babies basically have 2 different types of cries: theres the "I need something (food, love, a change)" cry, and the "I'm in severe pain" cry. This cry that I was hearing across the mall corridor was the pain cry. So when I hear this I immediately turn my attention to see what was the matter, because I was expecting to see something horrible, like maybe a mother had accidentally dropped her child or something along those lines. I am not that lucky. For those of you who do not know our mall that well, the store right across that way from Babbage's does ear piercing. This evil mother was getting her 6 month old (at the most) infant's ears pierced. The cries that were coming from that baby broke my heart, and to see her struggling with no avail to get away was even worse. I don't agree with this practice one bit. If consequences were not a factor I would have beaten that woman within an inch of her life. Parents should not put their babies through that kind of pain. Getting one's ears pierced should be a decision that they make not their parents when they are a baby. I understand circumcision for boys because of the cleanliness factor and the religious reasons, but for something strictly cosmetic like ear piercing it is completely unacceptable.