Kids in a shopping cart

I saw an unattended shopping cart with kids in it moving across a sloping sidewalk toward an intersection. So I ran and stopped the cart from moving any further.

“Why’d you do that?” a bystander asked. “The curb would have stopped it.” The curb was a couple of inches higher than the sidewalk.

“Maybe,” I said. “But why would you want to see that?”

Lurking behind this dream, I think: the many dangers to children in our current moment (kids in cages?), the many dangers to children in the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, whom Elaine and I are now reading, and an elevated sidewalk slab on which I nearly tripped a couple of days ago.

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[“Only fools and children talk about their dreams”: Dr. Edward Jeffreys (Robert Douglas), in Thunder on the Hill (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1951).]