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I loved my job in the working museum. Every day, I got to play dress up as a delivery driver from a time gone by.
Then I met a little boy who was curious. I didn’t mind that; it was part of what I did. It was when questions became personal that I got annoyed. Where were the parents? I tried to put the kid off by acting ignorant about it. I was just a delivery driver doing my job.
He persisted, and I snapped. I gave him a cuff round the ear and got sacked.
Loved my job, hate children.
I wrote this in response to this week’s Friday fictioneers.
AngieTrafford 
Even the childcare was of the period
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This is very true! Thank you for reading and commenting.
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i don’t blame parents who drop their kids at the library or museum when they need to run an errand. it’s a safe place for them to hang out and amuse themselves. 🙂
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Libraries I understand, and some museums. However, a working museum is not always the best place as there are things like vehicles. (The nearest one to me as a mineshaft and I canal! Not the best place to leave a child!)
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Ugh. I feel you!
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I think most people have had some kind of experience with children that isn’t good! Thank you for reading and commenting.
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Oh, for sure… including my own 😉
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Pesky kids! You did such a good job making us seeing things through his eyes.
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Thank you so much for the compliment, it means a lot. Thank you for reading and commenting.
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I imagine living history actors have to put up with all kinds of nonsense on the job. In Chuck Palahniuk’s book, “Choke,” he works at one of those places and has some doozy interactions.
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When we visited one in Birmingham (Black Country) one of our group asked the policeman if he would arrest her if she knocked off his helmet! At the time he was having trouble because he was having to use the newspaperman’s bicycle which was too big for him and he couldn’t stop and put his feet down!
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Oh my, now that’s entertainment!
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