That’s right. Fox 59, your friendly local Indy news station, recommends you at least subject your kid to danger if you don’t buy a brand new crib! While searching for something else (Did you know some people have taken pictures of “every Starbucks in the city”:http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net/Indianapolis.htm and posted them online? This one “next to my bank”:http://home.flash.net/~ral1/starbucks/bigimages/DSCN8511.htm (they’re connected inside! You can smell the coffee while you make a deposit, I suppose so you can then use your debit card to spend your deposit on the spot :-) has a sign out front that I hope isn’t keeping people away!), an “archive from April 2004”:http://fox59.trb.com/news/local/morningnews/wxin-am-fyi-april.story says, in part (emphasis mine):
Tuesday, April 13
CRIB SAFETY PRECAUTION
A crib can cost more than $3,000. But a hefty price tag doesn’t always mean more safety for your baby. Consumer Reports tested more than a dozen cribs to find out which ones are the best. Prices ranged from $100 to $500. Experts say simpler designs are safer. “Fancy decorations can catch a child’s clothing at the neck and that’s a potential strangulation hazard”, says Consumer Reports Sandra Gordon. The Delta Luv Jenny Lind model #4650-1 is easy to assemble and at only $110 its a Consumer Reports best buy. If you decide to use an older crib instead of buying a new one, make sure it was made before 1999. Experts say cribs made before that are not as safe.
Did they really mean that? Well, probably not as much as Wal-Mart meant that interesting price, uh, “reduction” I mentioned a while ago :-)
I never want my blog accused of sensationalizing trivia, so don’t accuse me. Whether I do it or not. Okay? ;-) (If you need to accuse me of something, you could point out my overuse of smileys :-p Or…how about my (usually (sometimes) nested) use of parentheses? I mean, you’ve got a nice example of both right here! Can! You! Spot! Another! Problem!? Not so much in this post (other than the last five sentence fragments), but overall my exclamation point useage patter tends to trend toward the upward side of the curve :-) And that’s even after I try to curb my enthusiasm! (Hey, that’s almost the name of a show on HBO! I don’t get that channel so I’ve just heard the name.)
Hmm. I wonder what inspired the link to Starbucks pictures ;)
Comment by Ruth — Wed, 2005-03-23 (Mar 23) @ 15:25
They were just, um…random. Yeah, that’s it :-) Surprisingly, that particular Starbucks doesn’t appear to be on their website (the corporate Starbucks one) that I could find, even when searching for locations close to the address of the bank that’s INSIDE! So no phone number to call for hours. Stupid, if you ask me. But you didn’t, so feel free to ignore :-)
And if anyone’s interested, they close at 11pm most nights, midnight on Friday and Saturday. And, their wooden chairs are painful, but their stuffed chairs are very comfortable and have a really cool feeling when you first sit down in them (or if you get up and sit back down, and get up and sit back down…) :-)
Comment by David — Thu, 2005-03-24 (Mar 24) @ 00:00
And hey, thanks for not accusing me of sensationalizing trivia :-) ‘Cause we all know Fox did mean to imply we should kill our babies! ;-)
Comment by David — Thu, 2005-03-24 (Mar 24) @ 00:06