Actually Taking Candy from a Baby

I was sitting down watching a bit of This Morning the other day. Yes I love me a bit of daytime tele action, especially with Holly and Phil. I guarantee there’s not one person in the world that hasn’t imagined themselves in a Holly/Phillip sandwich. Anyway a story popped up that really shocked me. It was about a man who had stolen an IPhone out of the hands of a 1 year old baby as she sat in her stroller while her mother was distracted in a shopping store. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when they showed the footage. As plain as day he’s casing the pram and waiting for the Mum to turn away. I mean what kind of people are in the world that they think this kind of behaviour is acceptable; I’m not being naive or anything I mean he obviously has little morals to be stealing anyway, but to actually steal out of the hands of a child. It takes the phrase “taking candy from a baby” to a whole new level. It’s strange that it’s now evolved to become “taking a Smartphone from a baby”, but that’s just a sign of the times as my Gran would say.

What has happened to some people in their life to think that this is okay? There seems to be little community spirit anymore. We went through a really lovely Olympic British summer where we were reminded of “the good old days”, and people started to care about their neighbour again, and then something like this happens, and it just reminds you of the people that are walking around this place.

                If that wasn’t bad enough to make you think what the world has come to then this will. My cousin Michelle has a little boy who’s Birthday Party it is this weekend. So mid week she goes shopping for stuff for the party, and all he wants in the world for his party is a Spiderman cake. Fair enough right, he’s a boy, he wants a cake for his B’day and Spiderman is awesome, good on the little lad, he’s not asking for much. The thing is, it became apparent to Michelle that every child in Cardiff who’s Birthday it is has also asked for this bloody cake. So this cake is like gold dust now. It was like The Buzz Light Year of 1995! Any parent who remembers their child asking for the Buzz Light Year that year will understand the severity of the mission it was just to get one under the tree for Christmas morning. Fortunately for my sister Laura this was not the case as our Mother pretty much rocks all kind of Awesome, so there was a happy little Laura Dalgleish that year.

                So Michelle is running from one place to the other looking for this rare Spiderman cake which cannot be found anywhere. She ends up going into Asda on her shop, and there sitting on the shelf like a beacon of hope is the last Spiderman cake in the store. She grabs it off the shelf and plops it onto the seat in the trolley elated that she’d done it. She would wake up on Saturday knowing that she had it, her little man would wake up with the world all to rights, and she would be the best mum to walk the earth because she had completed her mission!

                Continuing around the store euphorically she picks up her bits that she needs. Then disaster struck as she got to the check out. It was only when unloading the trolley that she realised that someone had gone into the trolley and taken the last Spiderman cake! It was gone! Someone, noticing that there were no more of these cakes in the store had waited for her back to be turned and just grabbed the cake. I mean it’s not like this was a cake that could have been mistaken for anything other than for a child’s party, and someone grabbed it knowing full well there would be a disappointed little child out there somewhere. Not just that, it’s really bad trolley etiquette. If it’s in the trolley, it’s more or less bought and paid for. You can’t just take out of people’s trolley. What’s wrong with people, it’s easy, if it’s on the shelf then it’s for sale! I personally don’t want to live in a world where you can just walk past a trolley and think to yourself “I want that”, and just take it. Supermarkets would become a world of chaos.

                I heard these two stories within 24 hours of each other, and I just completely lost faith in this world. Everyone seems to be out for what they can get for themselves. There are so few people who will do something for nothing. There is always a “what’s in it for me” attitude. Even innocent children are learning too early that the world can be a really hideous place. All we can do is hope that one day people will start caring about the consequences of their actions, but even that seems too much to hope for.

                However on the positive side, being awesome mums seem to run in the family because even now as I write this, Michelle’s little boy Luca will be enjoying his Spiderman cake that she managed to get him ordered in from another store. Well done Michelle, Supermum strikes again!