Baby walkers banned

It’s about time that these infant death traps were banned in Canada. I’m not sure why it took so long. Perhaps the federal Liberals have been in the back pocket of the ultra-powerful baby walkers lobbyists.

When I was a child, before all the real dangers were apparent, my folks had me in an olive green walker tooling around the house like a madman. One day, according to mom, I was really cooking along in my walker, most likely chasing the long suffering ‘Miss Kitty’, and I hit the basement door. The door popped open and I went crashing down the stairs. I’m told I was unconscious on the concrete floor for a few minutes, which could explain a lot. My walker was totalled. Thankfully, after being checked by our family doctor (this was when they still made house calls) I was deemed to be okay. I’m sure he missed some brain damage as has been evidenced by my later behaviour and sadly lacking decision making.

After that Mom and Dad installed a chain lock on the door to prevent further accidents.

Though I’m too young to remember the incident, I still say buh-bye walkers.