Public Foolishness

I went on a trip with my family to Kansas City this weekend to watch the Red Sox beat up on the Royals.  The two teams spilt the 2 games we went to, so the trip wasn't a complete success.

But the general public did give us several teachable moments with our kids. We saw two people vomit in public and a group of people that partied so hard they had to spend the night at our hotel.

Let me recap our young examples.

1. Guy throws up from a moving car leaving Oklahoma Joe's.  No idea why he threw up.  Could have been illness.  It was gross.
2. "Lady" throws up on silverware waiting in line for omelet.  Stays in line and has hardy breakfast.  My kids wondered why a sick person wanted to eat breakfast.
3. We rode elevator with group of people still dressed from a Saturday wedding party at 11am Sunday.  They looked like death. Talked like fools.

Because of their public displays of drunkenness and hangovers our kids were able to see first hand  that getting hammered is more likely to lead to negative consequences rather than endless fun.  (Incident #1 was just gross but set the tone for the weekend.  It didn't give us any life lessons. )