almost as creepy kewpie babies

among other things, i've noticed that parents put their small children on scooters and drag them around town. i guess they're worried that the kids' legs will fall off or something if they're forced to walk on the sidewalk; and clearly a scooter is far more aerodynamic than a regular stroller, particularly if you want your kid to go flying down that hill at the bottom of the street. i had some ingenious alliterative name for this generation of scooter babies, which katleen approved of, but it now escapes the both of us. what i wouldn't give for a memory.