Maybe he was practicing.

I watched a man push a baby carriage past the store. In the carriage was a 100 count box of Pampers. There was no child in site.

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Then I thought, it's silly when an adult has child things without a child,but it's different when a child has adult things without an adult. Then I saw a toddler pushing a shopping cart filled with PBR and fireworks.

Buy one, get one - child.

Kids get lost at the mall all the time. Having called security, I was waiting with one weepy little boy when his mother came back into the store with an armful of shopping bags.

Two of those bags were from my store. Another was from KB Toys, and when seeing this, the boy burst into tears and had a tantrum because he didn't get to go pick out Legos. She had come into the store, made a purchase, went to another store, made a purchase, and then noticed she was minus one child.

Perhaps we've been wrong about the child leashes; they're actually used so the parent doesn't get away.

"But in my arms she was always Lolita."

A woman and her pre-teen daughter asked for help finding a swimsuit.

"She's going to camp in a week and needs something for swimming in the lake," the woman told me. At the time we had a good selection of younger swimsuits that were basic, modest two-pieces in cute colors that would be alright for younger girls. However, when we couldn't find something to fit her the mother thanked me and said she was going to look at some basics for herself.

A few minutes later, the woman and her daughter come up to me holding a push-up bra and panty lingerie set - light blue satin, pink satin bows across the chest and tying the panties together.

"Do you think she could wear this as a swimsuit?"

Caught off guard I said it's not really meant for that, and we can't guarantee it'll hold up to chlorine.

"Oh that's alright, she's just going to be swimming in the lake."

A happy customer, they bought the set and walked out thanking me for my help.