When one of my daughters was 2 years old we dreaded taking her places because of the following incident.  Visiting friends in Boston, we stopped and strolled the Hancock Tower area downtown. Having rented a 2-door car, we stored the baby-stroller in the trunk and the kid in the child seat in the rear, having to push forward the front seat to manipulate her body into the back while placing her gently in the baby seat. You get the idea.  There's considerable twisting of the body required, which, being in our mid-thirties didn't phase us at all.
Until, the universally adored, model beautiful, blond child inexplicably determined she wasn't going anywhere.  She preferred her current location, regardless of the plans of the majority. On the grass lawn surrounding the Hancock Insurance Tower the little darling commenced to scream bloody murder, globular tears cascading down her seemingly innocent cheeks, while holding her 3-foot body so rigidly straight she could have been suspended plank-like between the backs of two metal folding chairs.
Around this time there had been several nationally publicized kidnappings of toddlers, and people were on the lookout for marauders snatching cute, Gerber-Baby children.  Consider my dilemma: attempt to cram said screaming child headfirst through the driver's side of a two door car, door ajar to hinge squeaking lengths, pushing the driver's seat forward with my extended butt while attempting to force her rigor mortis like body into a bent position, or remonstrate with a two year old.  I caved.  Sitting on the grass, ignoring the stares of passers-by, a grown man attempted futilely to rationally argue with this two-year old terrorist that she needed to stop screaming and obey daddy, all the while hearing in my ear a fantasy cop vociferously arguing, "If you're her father why is she so blond?"
And you ask why I am recounting this?  It is because the T-Party has decided to shut down the United States government in their self-absorbed, anti-democratic, economically destructive attempt to portray their fury at the Affordable Care Act, and the story somehow just came back to me.