Creepy Albertson's Bunny

We went into the grocery story today, the day before Easter.  As soon as I walked in the door I grabbed a cart and started pushing it.  A short, kinda chunky man with a sleevless shirt with holes and shorts and a pierced lip and a camera walked up to me and the girls and said, "the Easter Bunny was right over in the bakery if we wanted to meet him and take a pic. with him."

  I politely said ok, thinking in my head, "there is no way I will take my kids to see the "Easter Bunny" that you are representing.  As we started to turn and walk by the bakery, sure enough there was the "Easter Bunny".  By him was the man that spoke to me and what looked like, his two children.  A girl in her teens in denim shorts and a shirt that had graffiti type writing on it and she had about 3 different piercings on her face.  And a boy that was the best dressed in denim shorts and a red/blue button up shirt, also with a piercing in his lip.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  YOU THOUGHT I WOULD TAKE ME KIDS TO GO SIT ON THAT BUNNY! I DON'T THINK SO!!

We started walking by and they said, "HI".  We said Hi back and as I started to walk I got a few steps and the girl came up to us and said we can go sit on the "Easter Bunny's" lap and get a picture taken.  I said, "no thank you we don't really have time".  She then gave my girls each an easter egg with candy in it.  And walked away.

I told the girls they were not allowed to eat the candy (which wasn't individually wrapped inside the egg) that I would buy them some different candy and that I'm sure the "Real Easter Bunny" would bring them awesome candy tomorrow.  They weren't liking this idea so I had to explain to them that I do not know those people, that they are strangers and therefore I don't trust them.

It took a while to finally get them to somewhat understand that we can't eat opened candy from strangers, and we don't go sit on someone's lap if MOM doesn't feel comfortable.

I always knew that Albertson's was ghetto but it was totally weird and uncomfortable and I will never go there again, especially around Easter!