Ended up going to a steam rally yesterday and I have never felt so sad watching the amount of children carrying there new pet prize around in little open top sandwich bags while waving them around, going on rides, running with their "new fishy". The closed top bags that you get in pet shops are bad enough when they're given to children but the open top sandwich bags were obviously going to end horribly. The amount of children swinging them will the "look fishy flies' comment, the people binning fish, tipping them away. I wanted to tell each person how much care their new fish will need, the true tank size needed, not nthe tiny little Tupperware boxes they were selling for £5.00 as a tank (although they were 100x better than the tiny bags, atleast the fish couldn't go flying). I then wondered how the fish were going to get home down the hugely bumpy country roads leading to to the rally. No fish would manage to stay in its bag with an adult holding let alone a child.
I've tweeted them but nothing will come of it. This is the second fair/rally I've been to in less than 2 months and both had goldfish as prizes although the first one I went to gave the parents a choice. The one I visited yesterday had them as the runner up prize that you were past as you lose 
I know nothing will change but I can't rant to anyone I know as its "tradition, a cruel tradition but still a tradition"
I'm starting to hate going anywhere that's supposedly fun. The zoo I visited where a barely 2 year old was running around in just a nappy and tshirt and chasing the ducks and trying to jump on them while his mum and older siblings encouraged him. I hate people. 