Today I was walking in town on my lunch our, touring one of the annual art festivals. The festival is quite popular with many sights to be seen. As I was walking, I passes a mother pushing a stroller. Strapped to the stoller was a portable DVD player. The poor little girl in the stroller seemed almost comatose. I will give you that it was pretty hot and humid today. However, something seemed wrong about a kid on a summer day with all of this nice art to see and people about to be allowed to just vegetate in front of the TV. I have negative feelings about DVD players in cars (we kept ourselves entertained when I was young by singing with each other in the car dangit!). A stroller with a DVD player takes the cheese, though.
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My wife and I used to joke about hooking a DVD player up to the jogging stroller because they used to get bored if I ran more than about 20 minutes. We ended up working out a way for her to meet me in the driveway at a designated time in the middle of a run. I barely had to break stride.
My sister and I used to entertain each other by poking at each other. My parents probably would have loved a DVD player.
Oh my goodness, you should have taken a picture! The woman might have beaten you up though. If I strapped a DVD player to Kiko’s stroller he would wrangle it off it seconds and start chewing it. He loves being out and about watching the world go by, his little head on a swivel, he is too much to the other extreme. I tried to cover the stroller with a sheet on Sunday because it was so sunny and he went mad, roaring his head off until the sheet was removed.
Never say what you won’t do….
I have a high energy two year old who hates a stroller, always standing up, screaming, and having a major meltdown on any trip to the mall. My husband and I also saw a lady on vacation with a DVD player. on a stroller and this worked marvelously for a bit. I couldn’t wait to try it. For the first time ever he actually let me get a few errands done….in peace! Of course he still talked the whole time, but at least not screaming! I’m sure other customers also liked the quiet as well. Your festival may not be so charming with an ill toddler, after all!