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Posted on 08/14/2007 5:25:39 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
A clown has had the smile wiped off his face after being told he couldn't use balloons in his act because children might be allergic to latex. Barney Baloney said he was told by bosses at a supermarket where he was booked to appear that he should leave his balloons at home because of the potential for allergic reactions.
The 47-year-old entertainer, also known as Tony Turner, has previously had to ditch his bubble-making machine because he could not get public liability insurance as companies assessed that youngsters might slip and hurt themselves.
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And fed peanuts.
You’ll get no disagreement from most of the other posters in this thread.
LOL. That reminds me, if I am elected Supreme Leader, libertarians will be forced to have “deep” discussions about Ron Paul with their loser friends and sleep with farm animals and fat unpopular college girls. Oh, wait a minute, they already do this.
Your comment reminded me of a joke I heard from James Dobson.
“When your child turns 13, put them in a barrel and feed them through the hole. When they turn 18, plug the hole.”
When I was a kid, we were running the rails on 6ft wooden fences that separated backyards. My friend fell and landed in old window glass in a trash pile. My dad cleaned her bloody gash with turpentine, put on a bandage and we went back to play on the fence....Can you imagine...these days...?
You know, sometimes we actually DO get better at protecting kids over time.
I know several men in their late sixties who were sexually molested in their youth by older, “upstanding” men in the community. They didn’t speak up because it wouldn’t help, and because, at that time, it would bring severe consequences. One told his parents, and they told him to shut up.
The way some people on this board talk about the “goog ole days”, whatever stupid parental neglect and evil cultural mores existed in the past, are by definition better than what we have today. I beg to differ.
There were some things better than today about parenting then. But you have to admit there some things worse, too. I don’t think cleaning bloody gashes with turpentine and letting the kid continue the stupid behavior is a custom we should bring back.
IMHO.
My head is about to explode! When will it ever end?
People are allergic to a myriad of things—it’s up to parents to keep children from encountering items to which they are allergic and up to adults to avoid it themselves. As for unknown allergies, well, that’s how we find out! Ask my husband who recently ended up in his own ER after being stung by a bee. Anyone heard of an epi pen and 911?
For what it’s worth, I have a child with a peanut allergy. And now a husband with an allergy to bee stings!
Well there you have it! Southwest is still serving peanuts so you were not on one of the last flights to serve them.
There are no “good old days.” I raised three boys. When they were old enough to think a little, my philosophy was: “It’s your head, if you don’t take care of it, I don’t know who will.” The boys were given maximum freedom within bounds. They learned a lot about themselves and the truths of life from child size injuries that kept them from adult size “injuries” as they grew older.
No one wants to see a child hurt, but I watch the world come to a halt when a school bus stops. You know the routine. I see the children get off the bus, knowing the world has stopped for them. I wonder what we are teaching them. Today it’s a schoolbus, but somewhere they are going to have to learn that the world doesn’t come to a stop for them, they are not the center of the universe.
I am old. Molestors and horrible things are as old as time. It’s hateful and rotten.
I have learned something. It isn’t the rotteness of the thing that has happened that’s important. It’s all important how you respond to the rotten thing.
History, literature, and people around us are constant witness to being made stronger by difficulty and tragedy.
We all have our stories. At some point an adult has to say, “That was then, this is now.” There is nothing more pathetic than someone my age still blaming a ruined life on something that happened decades ago.
One of the beauties of menopause memory lapse and using EQUAL in my coffee is that I can’t REMEMBER.
I went to see a clown at the supermarket. He was a nice man in a suit and tie who sat on a box, surrounded by children. He handed out latex balloons to children who were watching his show. Another child, 2 years old, who was not watching the show but instead just entering the store with his Mom to buy milk, sees the children with the balloons, runs over to them and tries to take one. He is not old enough to know that he is allergic to latex and balloons can kill him. He goes into shock, and the ambulance is called. What happens next?
Perhaps its simply evolution in action. A life without risk is not worth living.
“A life without risk is not worth living.”
Wow, that’s deep. (Or not.)
Allow me to quote myself: I was on one of the last airliners to pass out peanuts a while back.
Did you perhaps think I claimed to be on the last plane in the last world to be getting the last of the peanuts? Oh come now, that would be odd. :-)
Latex balloons are banned at most children’s hospitals now...mylar (shiny) ones are OK. Death of childhood fun! I actually rode on the open tailgate of my dad’s truck around the ranch!! Heaven forbid!
http://www.lpch.org/forPatientsVisitors/VisitingInformation/lpch/giftsFlowers.html#balloons
http://www.childrenscentralcal.org/Portal2.asp?ID=232
http://giftshop.seattlechildrens.org/healthpol.htm
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>>I was on one of the last airliners to pass out peanuts a while back.
Delta still passes out peanuts, FYI. I was given two packs Sunday afternoon, 8/12.
I'm thinking we (in the proverbial sense "we") are screwed up. Who do you think imposed this nonsense? Blackbird.
Glad to hear it about Delta and peanuts. I get them regularly on Southwest. I find peanuts to be a great source of protein...something I need when traveling.
“...children might be allergic to latex. Barney Baloney said he was told by bosses at a supermarket...”
Does this same supermarket sell peanut butter or shellfish? Many people might be allergic to these products, or many other people might be allergic to anything that they sell.
Ah, if only mom were a responsible parent that kept her child under control instead of letting the child run amok.
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