Gone shopping

We love go shopping at Cold Storage Jelita for the reason that this is the only place that I know of, in Singapore, that offers mini shopping carts for kids. 

Ever since we came here when Kodi was 18 months old, she loved to push the cart and adding stuff into it. She wasn't very good at navigating through the isles and around the crowd initially and needed my constant supervision, and intervention. 

Now she is a pro and has her own opinion about what fruits, vegetables and cereals we should get.

She is also great at moving stuff onto the check-out counter. Quick unloading! The only thing I am not so comfortable is that she prefers to return the shopping cart herself while I am finishing checking out. The return location is tucked between the row of check-out counters and the store entrance. It is probably the busiest corner in the whole store where people come in to grab a cart and rush to get out after shopping. Nonetheless, she is usually fine dodging the crowd. 

But not today. 

A girl with curly hair, probably around four years old, grabbed the empty car that Kodi just finished unloading. The two girls just stood there staring at each other for about 10 seconds. I said to the curly hair girl "Please give it back" she mumbled something that we couldn't understand and the next thing I knew, she just ran away like a wind, with the cart. Kodi asked me "whey did she take away my cart?"  "I don't know. Maybe she needs a cart?" There was a woman calling the little girl and waiving at her from a distance, which really bothers me that people could just leave their young children unattended at a public venue.... It was almost dinner time so I decided that it's not worth a fight. After all, we were ready to return the cart anyway. This cart hijack just ended Kodi's shopping routine prematurely. That's all. We still had fun shopping!