Do you think one can leave a baby in the car and not be a bad parent?

@MaryJanine In Oklahoma people who gamble have been caught locking their children in their vehicles while they were inside gambling.

@cherokeepatti Dis-gusting. I think I'll send my new governor down there and he can see the results of what he wants (online gambling and better work by DCFS) at work.

@cherokeepatti I forgo to tell you. it's funny how the memories go away.

When I was little, my mom worked during the early afternoon to the early evening as a waitress. My dad was a drinker at that time, and if mom wasn't ready, he would go into the bar next door. He had me with him, so he parked in the alley parking lot, got out and locked me in the car. "You wait here. I'll bring you something." Then he would disappear into the rear entrance. At that time (circa 1962) I wasn't scared. It seemed like forever, but I was never molested. Sometimes Dad would remember to bring me something, more often not. Nobody thought of car stealing at that time.
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Today, I wouldn't go in that area on a bet. There are always holdups and shooting in there.

@MaryJanine same thing happened with my father. He had a camper-top on the back of the pickup and left us there to sleep while he went to a bar. We’d wake up when he was swerving from lane to lane, felt like were rolling like bowling balls back there. Sometimes he’d bring us with him to small bars in rural areas. They never refused to serve him with us sitting there. He’d drink up to 2 dozen beers & buy us one 7Up each, after an hour or two we’d ask for another and he’d tell us that much soft drinks wasn’t good for us.

@cherokeepatti And I suppose beer was all right, right? I never liked alcohol, having grown up with it. I tasted it once and it got so bad I wouldn't even drink the wine (Blood of Christ) at Sunday mass. I prefer Diet Coke to anything else (the caffeine wakes me up) or, if everybody's drinking and I'm not, I order a Horse's Neck.

@MaryJanine He was extremely narcissistic so yeah a couple dozen beers is OK for him, more than one 7Up for his children sitting at a stinking bar for 3-4 hours or more isn’t good for us.