Communication!

Whilst out and about today in my white van I saw an amazing sight. When I say 'amazing' I mean that only in the most sarcastic of tones.

Now I appreciate that the fact that I have never had children and therefor not had to deal on a daily basis with their demands may cause me to be somewhat underqualified to judge what I saw but still I found it at the very least a tad peculiar and more than a tad concerning.

There sat opposite me at traffic lights, in a very expensive BMW Chelsea tractor was an attractive woamn in her thirties with two small children seated suitably in child seats in the rear. Nothing too amazing there I know.

What caught my eye was that the woman in question was, rather than making herself available to her offspring should they require her attention, listening to and fiddling copiously with....an iPod!

The possibility of actually interracting with her children it seems was not on her list of priorities.....and like I said, whilst I may be underqualified appreciate the trials of parenthood and non stop child chatter, maybe she would need to know should one of them suddenly encounter some kind of in-car small child emergency!

Hey ho....what do I know, it just struck me as a little odd.