What we learned at the "Safety Fair"

You may or may not remember what happened at the Safe Kids Fair last year.  If not, you can click here.  So, of course, we were not about to miss it this year.  Here's what we learned:

• Don't go on Saturday.  I think last year we went on Friday and there were no crowds, no lines, we actually got to participate in stuff.
• People will wait in long lines to see something we take for granted (a firetruck).
• If you want to get a child ID card made, you cannot visit the face painting booth first.  (This turned out to be good for us, as we would not have stood in line for the face painting, but the people in front of us had.)  Child ID cards are important, face painting not so much.
• My husband actually tipped the clown that was giving out "free" balloon animals.  I never fall for that ploy - free is free.  Plus those clowns are seriously weird.

• Policeman have to coax kids into liking them by giving them free stickers and letting them try out their motorcycles.

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  Most free stuff is just junk, and I really hope people recycle all those pamphlets. Seriously, why do they let salespeople come to these things. They don't care about keeping my kids safe.
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  Firetrucks really can be fun.