11 things that become particularly hellish once you have kids
Once you become a parent, certain experiences become amplified, which is both good and bad. On the good side, simple things like a trip to the zoo or spotting a digger on the street become completely magical experiences.
On the bad side, things like waiting rooms, checkout queues and long car trips become a special kind of hell. Here are 11 things that are particularly hellish once you have kids.
4. School uniform shop
For me, going to the school uniform shop is like going to the doctor: I will do anything to avoid it. If my kids are wearing knickerbockers, I will resist going in to the uniform shop until the knickerbockers actually disintegrate in the wash.
Oh, the painfully slow service, the parent-helper who can’t find anything, the constantly “out of stock” items, the “sorry we don’t take (insert whatever you’re trying to pay with here).”
Then there’s the idiosyncratic and difficult to remember opening times. Before school on Tuesdays and after school on Fridays or is it the other way around?