There is, of course, an age when leaving kids in the car makes sense. I spent a lot of my mom's grocery store runs in the car with a library book.

DH actually spent time in the car in the summer (with the windows rolled down) in a car outside a bar that his father and grandfather liked to frequent on their summer vacation. His father would come outside every 15 minutes or so to give him a bottle of coke and a snack or candy and to check on him. Of course, this was 25 years ago and it was a very small town.

I'll leave the dog in the car (for brief periods) in the winter, but not in the summer. If I have her with me, and depending on where I am, I try to park by a tree and take her out and tie her to that instead. Of course, in my current 'hood, dog theft is a big problem so I don't leave her anywhere, with the exception of my coffee shop which has dog hitches set into the walls and where I can see her the entire time I'm in line.

A toddler? I don't think so.

We used to take Whiskers everywhere with us in the summer. My grandparents and I would live in the campground, so we kinda had to. But we always parked in the shade, left the windows cracked and he had a bowl of water.

Generally my rule of thumb is that if I'm going to do something that is very quick and I'm parked directly in front of a glass door that I'll be right next to, and Emaryn is in the car and it's not hot, I'll leave them in the car if they don't object. Emaryn generally wants to stay in the car because she's reading something. When they were younger I'd always take'em with me.

This has made me a huge fan of pay-at-the-pump gas stations.

I'm sending out some love to our little bug. {{{{{vw}}}}}}}

I hope she has cable. I've been home two days (not even in a row!) sick and am nearly homicidal with the broadcast and the Tyra and the ugh.

I'm not hungry, but its after five and I haven't eaten and suspect I would feel better if I did.

I'm glad Buffistas don't leave unseen babies in cars.

ita would rock this: [link]

yes she would.

ION, that is all about mememe, too much coughing in my life that seems to be asthma related. sucks. esp. since it saps energy ( but then again I could just be tired because DH got home around 2am last night)

Heh. I was just thinking about the lack of chainmail in my life. I think I'd get stuff caught in that slash, though.

Stuff caught in that slash? now THERE's a straight line!

Having had multiple abortive attempts to discuss the CBS show The Unit, I'm deaf to straight lines.