Overheard in the Grocery Store

A good reason not to bring your toddler shopping:

Little Girl [grabbing something from shelf]: Mommy, I want this!
Mother [looking at what the little girl has grabbed and seeing a box of menstrual pads]: Do you even know what those are?
Little Girl: Band-Aids!
Mother [reaching to take the box away]: No, they're not. This box is for grown-up women.
Little Girl [holding firmly to box, voice rising in volume and pitch]: Band-Aids!
Mother [noticing that people are starting to stare]: Hush!
Little Girl [planting feet firmly on the ground and brandishing the pads]: Band-Aids!

I thought it was funny, but the mother seemed ready to sink into the floor.