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Bob - 2006-07-25 20:22:54 - http://shadowgm.diaryland.com
Gah. I could do my own blog entry about this kind of stupidity, which has been going on for nigh on twenty years. Like the parents who would place their infant children on the rail overlooking the Foucault Pendulum ... six foot drop onto terrazzo tile, with a 248-lb. brass ball swinging back and forth. "Ma'am, please don't let your child sit on the rail." "Oh, I'm watching him/her." (Like some people are watching traffic when they're driving their cell phone and talking on the car, if you get my drift.) // Or the little girl who got seriously injured after being told by several staff members to not play on the stanchions (large steel poles and crossbars, not retractable webbing on plastic poles) - Mom & Dad were right there, had heard us warn their daughter, but wanted to know why there wasn't a sign telling them how dangerous the stanchions were. // And right on into the future, a couple years back when I was volunteering on the USS Hornet ... we're always telling kids not to run, and - typical - kid didn't listen, tripped and slid on the non-skid deck coating (think coarse sandpaper), messed up his pants, bloodied his knees, and, sure 'nuff, here come the parents wondering why we weren't nannying their precious gem. // One group of 'supervisory adults' even took offense when a docent - an actual former crewmember - warned their little darlings that the ship was not Disneyland. They demanded he be fired. (Fine, and if your little angels had broken an irreplaceable piece of historic equipment, would you be writing us a check? Uh-huh. Thought so.) // It's not just an absence of common sense, it's a failure to teach respect to authority. Grrrrrr.

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