Spring and schoolchildren

At the botanical gardens getting positively swamped
by kiddies who've drunken far too much red cordial.

Spring is here and boy is it nice, with the cherryblossoms in bloom. Spring also means the advent of great groups of school kiddies taking advantage of the nice weather on day trips. Any reasonable visiting destination is swamped with them.

And not only kiddywinks, but also with busloads of elderly chinese tourists sightseeing a bit of their own country. It usually consists of following a group leader waving a little flag in one hand (so the back can see), and a loudspeaker in the other (so the back can hear). But obviously with all these masses of random people running around all over the place, it is easy to be accosted by 5 different flags and 4 loudspeakers yelling at you simultaneously so getting lost doesn't take too much rocket science.

Hence the chinese have developed a clever (but rather humiliating in my estimation) visual leash system for humans. Notice how all the primary schoolkidsare wearing yellow caps, easy to spot a mile away? Well, another group would have for example, red caps, and another blue. So with all these technicolour heads bobbing around the place, its easy to instantly spot the renegade kiddie making a beeline for the icecream stall instead of being herded to the exit. Of course, this whole system not collapsing depends on another group of hoi polloi not turning up with the same coloured cap. It seems to have worked so far.