Aspirin in the best form of birth control

That is what we were told in our high school, or was it jr high, sex ed class. Now-a-days I guess they use more politically correct, try it on for size, methods.

The other day I was at Walmart with my mom, we were shopping, child free. I saw a young girl in the baby section, shopping for baby clothes with who I assume was her own mother. The young girl was holding a very teeny baby. Yes, my first thought was to pass judgement and the whole "Gosh, she is so young!" "Teenagers having babies, ugh" type attitude. Then the baby started to cry and she moved the baby into another position and I felt sorry for the baby for the inexperience and lack of compassion in the way she handled the baby, again, my thoughts went back to how incredibly young she is! Then I saw it, a plastic foot sticking out of the blanket. She isn't a mom, yet, but instead is doing the whole "try it on for size" method of what the system hopes to be birth control. However, as she and her "Mother" were in Walmart, clothes shopping for the new "Grandbaby" I would think that in this one case, it wasn't working too well.

Fast forward to yesterday. I was in the parking lot at JC Penney's looking for a spot so I could go find a purse that would be big enough for me to carry my new camera along with my other 'stuff' when I passed a very young couple, all of maybe 16 years old. She was standing in her "skinny" jeans and cleavage holding a baby with a bottle in it's mouth. "Daddy" was busy getting the baby car seat out of the back of the two door car. She was pissed and bugged with him, he was tired and bugged with the entire situation. As she carried the baby and he carried the car seat, it was obvious that it was not a real baby and chances are, this young couple would be handing the baby back to their instructor Monday morning and running as far away from each other as they can!

So, as I shopped, I was thinking of the young kids with their "try it on" dolls, them thinking of how cool it would be if they had babies and how easy it would be also. I was in the little boy section looking for some pants for Nick. All of their clearance items were dwindling, yet I was determined to come up with an even number of the BOGO clearance items. I heard this little boy yelling "Helen!" My immediate thought was that he had lost his grandma (Helen is my grandma's name and seems to be an 'old' name to me) but he kept it up. Then the lady next to me, who appeared to be alone, yelled back "Brady, keep track of your brother" Then I heard the boys run up the middle aisle, laughing and giggling. Then she said, again: "Brady and Kellen, be good please" and she kept looking. Then here they come again, running back down the same aisle, from the big boys section clear down to the baby section, yelling and laughing. Once again "Boys, be sweet" I have to confess, as they started weaving in and out of the clothes racks and one ran into me, I didn't apologize or step out of his way as he told me to "move it lady" as he tried to get away from his brother. His mom kindly apologized on behalf of her "sweet" and "good" precious boys. Every time the loud speaker came over, instructing shoppers to shop clearance or whatever, I was for sure someone was going to come on and say "Will the owner of the two brats running and yelling and knocking clothes off the racks in the kids departments, please control them or leave!" But, I could only hope, it never happened.

It all made me wonder, if the teenager "Moms" were given Kellen and Brady, perhaps they might consider not having kids so soon!

So, aspirin, as we were taught, is the best form of birth control, not a baby doll that cries, or brats running in the store. How, you ask, does aspirin serve as birth control? We all asked that in jr high or high school also, when Miss Wallenberg told us that. She was from Iowa, one of many kids, I am thinking it was literally like 10 kids. She stood in front of our class, in the small Lutheran High School (and jr high) that I attended, and told us exactly how aspirin is the best form of birth control: You put one between your knees and don't let it fall!