Yeah, I'm sorry for being a nit on this topic. But realism and rationality over "feelings" is my brand here and, kinda, my philosophy.

The reason I didn't find your example very...compelling, is that terrible things can actually happen when you excuse this behavior:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-05-12/news/9202120200_1_michael-murray-car-seat-interstate-highway

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/06/mother-drives-with-5-week-old-on-top-of-car/

http://www.snopes.com/autos/mishaps/babyroof.asp

"As unbelievable as such stories must sound, babies have been left on the roofs of cars that were subsequently driven away. Such accidents of forgetfulness happen with surprising regularity, and it doesn’t take all that diligent a search through old newspapers to dig up news reports documenting one such incident after another:"

This is a more common problem than most realize.