Last night, I’m on the bus again and a young woman gets on with a kid in a stroller. I’m not good at guessing ages but I’d say he was 2.
She sits down and pulls out her ipod and puts it on. The music is playing so loud that I can hear it from across the aisle. I think it was Sean Paul; sounded like him anyway. Then she takes one earphone out and puts it on her kid.
Now, I know how easy and unfair it is for people without kids to criticize other people’s parenting, but is this not both a dumb and dangerous thing to do? When the kid is stone deaf by the time he’s 10, is any doctor going to think to ask: Did you blast music in his ear when he was a toddler?
11 comments:
I'm w/you on this one
(of course I live in an ipod-less, cell phone-less, one TV household)
my ears still hurt from that KISS concert in 1977, and is that a bad thing?
But did you Rock-n-Roll all nite?
I think it's time you start taking your car to work.
JAW fan
Note to Madame Champignon:
Was never a KISS fan at the time, but now sounds like a really cool place to have been...Sadly, I cannot say the same about Styx
In the "get-up-and-get-your-grandma-outa-here" dept:
too true JAW fan!
at the time, we all cooly said (re: KISS concert) "Oh, I'm just going for the show, man". But when their "unplugged" cd came out sometime in the '90's, I stood in line to buy it then sang "rock bottom" to one of my babies as I spooned in the mushed up carrots or green peas or whatever it was they were eating back then. Now I have a nine year old son (a KISS fan) who falls on the floor laughing over paul stanley's "rug" chest hair.
so how come I got older and KISS didn't?
I remember watching KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park not that long ago (a really cheapie/cheesy late-70s tv production designed to cash in on KISS fame and nothing else)...in any case, I believe it was spaceman Ace Frehley (sp??) who you could tell had bad facial acne underneath his make-up...my point???...um, Ace Frehley had acne and covered it up with make-up.
No one said KISS conversations had to be profound.
JAW fan
Are you guys card-carrying members of the KISS army?
alas, not a member of the KISS army tho still aproud ace frehley fan
(
who saw "KISS meets the phantom" when it first came out and had the KISS comic book printed with REAL KISS BLOOD)
and I consider myself an upstanding citizen of the nation of alberta...
JAW, if you think I complain a lot about the bus, you should hear me when I'm driving. Every other driver is an idiot.
Printed in real KISS blood! HAHAHA!
La Nanuk...and you would be right! I complain about every other driver and I don't even drive!!!
Mushroom...Don't listen to her. If they said real KISS blood, then I'm sure it was. Comic book people don't lie...The proof, Sea Monkeys. Sure people say they were a hoax, but I know for a fact that they had those cute smiling faces just like the adverts claimed... and need I even mention X-Ray glasses!
JAW fan
ok
not ONLY KISS blood there was some red ink in there too-- doctors drew a VIAL of REAL KISS blood and added it to the vat of red ink (this is true, ms nanuk, there was a PICTURE (or was it a drawing?) that showed the rug-chested KISS lads pouring their vial of blood into the ink)
signed, sea-monkey-believer
ps to nanuk: and this began as a complaint about the-soon-to-be- deaf-ipod-listening-toddler...
I know. Occasionally, just occasionally, these comment threads go off the track. sigh.
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