But this particular Giant outlet got especially busy today when, without warning, a swarm of primary school children blitzed the aisles as if they'd just been released from school for the year.

Fieldtrip!
When I was a kid (oh god, how often I say that these days), our fieldtrips were to mushroom farms and water purification plants --- places that our parents couldn't, or weren't likely to, bring us. It seems that a supermarket falls into that category these days, or maybe the definition of fieldtrip has expanded to include our national pastime, shopping. Regardless, I never thought kids would be that excited while perusing dairy products.

Loose among the shelves
Originally uploaded by Tym.
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3 Comments:
Children today we're going on a fieldtrip to the local bus depot, where we will ride the bus to your homes and drop you off. Either that or we're going to John's house for our fieldtrip. I just don't have the energy or time to plan a good one. I'm trying to get married.
It's not just a simple field trip you know. My daughter's class is visiting Shop n Save next week and she's told to bring $2 to spend.
Of course, to a 6 yr-old, shopping without mum, with $2 in hand, is like me being let loose in a handbag shop, with my husband's credit card, minus his presence!! Whoopeee!
I'm sure it's educational. Schools do all sorts of fieldtrips nowadays. It's just ... odd to see little kids invading a supermarket, especially if, as trisha says, they're armed with a relative fortune to spend at the teacher's behest in service of some class assignment.
If it were my kids? I'd rather they learn to climb trees. I never learned and now I'm a little chicken to. I don't think it challenges a kid as much, character formation-wise, to go shopping in a supermarket :)
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