Embarrass Your Daughter While Shopping? Why Not!

We'd recently moved from northern Indiana to south central Illinois. Going to Terre Haute Indiana to shop was a real treat to the kids, especially our 16 year old daughter. There is a very nice shopping mall there, and several small shopping areas with numerous stores to pique the interest. There is also a Sam's Club. We all love Sam's Club, the purchase possibilities are endless, the amounts can be enormous and the prices are usually reasonable.

The one particular day we decided to go, we took our daughter, Lynne our 5 year old son, Ryan , my husband's parents, his sister and her two children (both teens). Now our children were in a wonderful mood that day, she was the oldest child (young lady) in the group, she'd been to this Sam's Club before and knew all the highlights she could introduce her cousins to, making her the cool one to be with on this shopping trip.

We started out as usual, our 5 year old son sitting in a grocery cart, a little upset because he couldn't run around with his cousins and sister. So she decided to make it easier on him, and rougher on me, by parking herself on the front open-end of the grocery cart. Our daughter is a very pretty, petite, curvy, vivacious blond, highly intelligent and very witty. She had had an ankle injured that was still weak at times and if she was going to be on it for an extended period, she'd put on her ankle support. She had done this for the shopping trip. She kept making comments of how badly her ankle hurt and making me push her and her little brother through the store, Dad was walking in front with his parents. She was also boy watching.

As we walked through the aisles she kept her eye out for a likely looking candidates so she could possibly flirt with them. Lo and behold, a group of three very good looking young men passed by. They glanced at our cart a few times, watching her, she was very animated, laughing and smiling a lot, mostly at my difficulty with the shopping cart. Then she noticed the young men, she sparkled even more, giving them furtive glances to make sure she had their attention, they were well within hearing distance, just getting ready to pass us again, and she was ready to let loose with a very witty joke or comment to me, and I trumped her! "Lynne" I said, "you know if you'd just do those exercises the doctor told you to do, I wouldn't have to push you around in this cart." Was her face RED! The three young men just stared while she sputtered and then laughed. As we continued through the store, not only did she have to stay in the cart for the remaining time we were in the store, she knew she was being watched by those young men the whole time and had lost the chance to browse and flirt. To this day it is a very big joke between us, and hasn't been topped yet, but she's trying.