Although, I once saw this woman in a Walmart parking lot grab her daughter (who was asking for some water), tie her to a ballistic missle and launch her into the sky towards the southern hemisphere.

A single tear ran down my cheek as the little girl’s screams faded into the horizon, like a tragic rainbow.

There was an empty carseat in the back of the car. :/

I said something like, “that was kind of odd, i’m not used to seeing people not use car seats” to the girl who was rounding up carts in the parking lot. She informed me that that particular woman shopped at Kroger all the time and was there several times a week, and had never been seen to use the car seat. Someone at the store had attempted to phone them in, using the license plate of the car, but apparently the car belongs to someone who isn’t a family member so they can’t find her. They also said she always pays with cash so they can’t track her down that way, either–not that it would be ethical to use that information, anyway.

[That last part I'm not so sure about--is it an ethical violation to use someone's name they leave for you on a credit card receipt to report something you see them doing on your property? ]

My other winning moment:

We were in the kids section of the library when a woman came in with about five kids. There was a little girl (about six?) in the group who obviously needed to use the bathroom, because she was holding herself and doing the pee-pee dance. Her chaperone (can’t say for sure it was a parent), told her, “Quit holding yourself like a boy!”

Um…ok? What does that mean?

Fortunately, there was a restroom in the kids area of the library and the girl was allowed to go and avoid further lecturing.