Child Car Seat, 135 cm

My daughter suffered from her tooth for a couple of days. I couldn’t take her to a doctor as she insisted to not to go. After her teacher said ‘’She had toothache today, you must take her to a doctor.’’ I decided to go. It’s better to call for an appointment but I can’t catch what people say on the phone. So I headed to the hospital the next day. They gave me an appointment for the same day. I went home happily after finished my other works.

My daughter was crying, couldn’t take herself from scaring of the dentist. My little son is noisy as always, tried to find something to make him busy. My older son started higgling, I want to get in too, I want to see what they will do! Everyone around was staring at us. We got into the dentist’s room in a mood of ‘mix salad’. With the assistant, we were 6 people in the room. My daughter cried loudly, started to say ‘’I don’t want to sit there!’’ I gave the tablet PC to the boys and focused on my daughter. Tried to convince her to sit there. After promising to never leave her hands, the operation to fill a tooth started and finished right in front my eyes. And our tooth problem was over.

On the way out, we higgled again for chips, chocolate, surprise eggs… I made my warnings as always when we got in the car, made them wear their seatbelts. We just got on the way, and a police car started to follow us. The officer may found us so cute, he started to send signals. I didn’t understand it first, but then I realized that those signals were for us. I pulled off and the officer made his first warning: Please stop when you see a police car behind you, lighting signals, you must pull off. I was a little scared, I got lather. I was trembling inside…

He asked for my driver licence first and children’s id cards. And the second warning came: Children are important for us, they must wear their seatbelts. The height is not 135 cm, you must two more child seats.

‘’Child car seat caused all these mess?’’ I said to myself. He was right. They don’t accept anything symbolic, they have standards. Standards are for applying in Europe. The officer takes care of the children and warns us for the child seats.

‘’I will only warn you for this time. If they take the seatbelt off, stop driving. Buy your child seats.’’ and he warned children to not to stand while talking to the officer.

We thanked and left, I couldn’t feel my knees later. I made a U turn and went to see Annica. She gave me a piece of paper and said ‘’There is a free second-hand bazaar between 18:00-19:00. You can find something there.’’

I didn’t understand anything. Why for free? Is it today?

I went to the place at the time and hugged the child seat waiting for me. All my troubles were gone that moment. My children took some of the free toys. . I felt like I shopped from the heaven.

The next day, there was a child seat in front of my door. Dear Annica, told about it to dear Kata, and my two dear friends gave child seats. Thanks to them, I had 4 child seats without paying any money.

I, kind of terrified because of the police officers in my country, awaiting to salute the police officers of this kind country.