Hitler and supermarket kids

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

A while after Hitler came to power, he sent troops into the Rhineland in contravention of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI. The Allies tut-tutted but did nothing. So next he went for the Anschluss with Austria (ostensibly a merger but really a takeover) and nobody said much. Following that, he occupied the Sudetenland, a German speaking part of Czechoslovakia and went on to take out the whole of the country. Our Prime Minister went out to see him for a chat and got nowhere. So next Hitler threatened Poland and was warned not to do so by the Allies. Well why should he be bothered, he'd got away with everything before. And so we had WWII.

And so to the supermarket where we get so many unruly kids. Mommy says, 'Don't do that, darling,' and does so repeatedly. The kid takes no notice and the cycle continues. In a supermarket the other day, the woman in front of me at the checkout only managed to pack one item in her bag before the brat ran off and she chased after him. No sooner had she packed the 2nd item and he was off and so was she. And so the charade continued until he tripped and banged his head against the counter.


Hardly in the same league as Hitler I know but the same old lesson. As I have said before, appeasement doesn't pay.