"blake murphy" > wrote in message
.. .
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:08 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I remember when I worked in a shopping mall in the late 1970s and
>> especially
>> early 1980s (after the Adam Walsh abduction/murder) seeing parents with
>> "leashes" on their young children. Mostly toddlers. Given the very real
>> fear about children being snatched by unscrupulous people from large
>> department stores, I thought it a quite sensible idea rather than some
>> form
>> of cruel and unusual punishment.
>>
>> Jill
>
> that's like wearing a raincoat, galoshes, and carrying an umbrella 24/7
> because it rained once or twice last year. the fear might have been real,
> but it was in no way sensible.
>
> your pal,
> blake



Your mother *never* told you to take an umbrella because it might rain?

Jill