My friend calls it "car care." The kid's fast asleep in the backseat, and you just need to hop out for five seconds. If you're in sight of the car, you leave it running. If you're going inside, you lock the doors.
It's gotten plenty of moms in trouble - like the Miami mom who left three kids under 3 in the backseat of her Cadillac this week, air conditioning going at full blast, windows rolled down, keys dangling from the ignition. This wasn't a "jump out to feed the meter, drop a library book in the drop box, grab a carton of milk . . " sort of incident. Misti Ellis was inside a store, "reading magazines." Now she's facing jail time, and deservedly so.
But sometimes, you just can't avoid it.
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