I feel bad...kids selling popsicles...I drove by...

[MichaelD]

For some reason, this feeling of guilt just dropped on me like a lead blanket.

I was running an errand earlier today; just pulled out of my apartment complex and was heading up the street to the main road.

I noticed some kids standing in the street, holding up some signage. I slowed down to a crawl so as to not entrap them under the wheels of my truck. This slow speed allowed me to read their signs.

They said:

Popsicles $.25!

I noted a child on the sidewalk standing next to a cooler, which I assumed held said popsicles.

I vividly remembered my lemonade stand I operated as a child...as I drove up the block and didn't stop and buy anything.

I felt guilty and ran my errands, but decided I'd buy a popsicle on the way back.

When I got back, they were gone.

I am now riddled with guilt.

What can I do to remedy this guilt?

Discuss.

ps
/kill yourself is not an option

 

[BillGates]

sit on a popsicle

 

[Sheepathon]

Drugs are the only option.

 

[corpseofworms]

Suicide is your only option.

 

[Mrvile]

/yourself and your family.

Always support the neborhood kids.

 

[T3C]

Maybe they will be back tomorow?
Buy some tomorow if they are out again?

 

[T3C]

Or next time you see a kid selling something buy like $20 worth

 

[Rock Hydra]

Well, you could go to a local store and buy a popsicle there.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: TechITguy
Maybe they will be back tomorow?
Buy some tomorow if they are out again?

Thought about that. I will buy $10 worth if they are out tomorrow. I will buy them and give them to the kids. Damn...I feel bad. I've ended employees careers and not felt bad (they deserved it!) but this?

Damn.

Understanding of situation = 0

 

[Wallydraigle]

To repent you must sponsor one of the Etheopean kids on the TV.

Note: Etheopean is probably spelled in some other fashion than the manner in which I have presented it here.

 

[Howard]

Take consolation in the fact that you regret. My friend, we need more of you in this heartless, jaded world.

 

[venk]

Next time you see them, buy Two popsicles.

 

[bleeb]

They will probably sell the next day.... buy them out.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: bleeb
They will probably sell the next day.... buy them out.

Yes! The guilt compels me. I really said to myself: "Wow, pull over and buy some stuff! They are just kids trying to make a buck...like you w/the lemondade stand!"

By the time my small brain completed the thought, I was on the main road.

 

[iluvtruenos]

You shoulda floored it and hoped that they had enough popsikle powa to slither out of teh way.

 

[iamtrout]

Go up to them tomorrow, beat them up, and pour gasoline into their popsicle cooler. As they cry set the cooler on fire. Then go to your local Walmart and buy popsicles.

 

[iluvtruenos]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
Go up to them tomorrow, beat them up, and pour gasoline into their popsicle cooler. As they cry set the cooler on fire. Then go to your local Walmart and buy popsicles.

And sell them for $0.50.

 

[Leros]

Set up a competing stand accross the street.

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: JToxic
Set up a competing stand accross the street.

That's how a businessman would do it!

 

[Zanix]

Offer your protection for free popsicles.

 

[MichaelD]

OMG...The Mafia Business Contingent has shown up! :Q

I never considered the whole Competing Popsicle thing...

Still, I felt badly...I will buy them out tomorrow.

 

[RbSX]

Wow a MichaelD post with emotion.

JK, I know how you feel, and I generally feel the same way.

 

[dug777]

i suggest you have a long cold beer, then go out, find the kids, and destroy their popsicle operation

Then set up your own

 

[KK]

That's just a front for their crack business.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: KK
That's just a front for their crack business.

these days, who knows