I want it!!!!

[Dark Psion]

Had a kid-sized melt down yesterday. "I want it! I WANT IT! I WANT IT!!!

He screamed, he stomped, he kept grabbing it and trying to put it in the cart.

Mom kept saying no, we don't need it and somehow kept he calm during the storm.

What? What was the "it" he wanted?

Laundry Detergent.

[earl colby pottinger]

I bet

He does not know how to use the washing machine, and forget hand washing either.

[EvilEmpryss]

Let him eat the pretty candy packets. That'll stop the tantrum.

/sarcasm, in case it needs to be said.

[dalesys]

Let him eat the pretty candy packets. That'll stop the tantrum.

/sarcasm, in case it needs to be said.

But then he'll be shot for Mad Cow Disease! [/Cosby]

[EvilEmpryss]

Nah, those low-e detergents don't foam like that.

[Ben_Who]

Nah, those low-e detergents don't foam like that.

Really? I was hoping to re-enact a classic sitcom plot in the basement.

[MoonCat]

Reminds me of a little kid I saw once begging her mom to buy her something she apparently picked up at random: A travel-sized toothbrush with a mini tube of toothpaste. Not a bad choice in one sense, but mom said, "You don't even know what that is, do you?"

Little girl shook her head. Mom said to put it back, so she ran off, and came back with something else she had no use for. She justed wanted mom to buy her something.

[EvilEmpryss]

I had my son at one of those used video game stores, and there was a father there with his 2-ish, maybe 3-ish, year-old little girl there as well. She was going around the store, picking up game cases, and running back to her daddy saying "I want this one!", only to be told no, run back, grab another one, and then come back and say again, "I want this one!"

Lather, rinse, repeat for the entire fifteen minutes I was in the store.

No, honey, you may not play Grand Theft Auto, not any version, not on any platform. Just... no.

[mathnerd]

My oldest had an epic meltdown when he was 3 because I wouldn't buy him strawberries. I had a garden that was producing massive amounts of strawberries at home, so I said no. I got some really strange looks as my kid screamed and wailed " I want fruuuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiittttttt" at top volume while I tried to escape from the store.

[Limescale]

Hate to admit it, but there was a time when I was that sort of kid. Due to growing up on local TV stations, which were rife with infomercials, I had a habit of taking to any product that got pitched with sufficiently bright and/or flashy graphics, meaning that if I then recognized said product in a store, regardless of what it was, I just had to have it.

Fortunately I was also equally receptive to my parents explaining why we didn't need everything I saw on TV, meaning that most of the time I would usually then put the product back without a fuss. Only time I got insistent was if it was something super novel like the micro machine cars that change color in water, or the Ghostbusters Ecto-Koolaid. Man I miss that stuff!

[April]

My oldest had an epic meltdown when he was 3 because I wouldn't buy him strawberries.

My daughter had a ginormous, kicking and screaming tantrum over grapes. She wanted purple ones. We had just purchased a large quantity of green ones the day before. I had to literally drag her out of the store, screaming like I was torturing her.

[manybellsdown]

My stepson got upset in the fabric store once because I wouldn't buy him a handful of zippers. He doesn't know how to sew, he just ... likes zippers?

[dalesys]

My daughter had a ginormous, kicking and screaming tantrum over grapes...

At that age I had a serious addiction to greeps... and aaa-oh jody. (apple jelly)

[mathnerd]

My daughter had a ginormous, kicking and screaming tantrum over grapes. She wanted purple ones. We had just purchased a large quantity of green ones the day before. I had to literally drag her out of the store, screaming like I was torturing her.

So glad I'm not the only one to experience this. The looks people give you because you refuse to buy something healthy are rather embarrassing.

My stepson got upset in the fabric store once because I wouldn't buy him a handful of zippers. He doesn't know how to sew, he just ... likes zippers?

I was reading this thread out loud to my boyfriend and he quietly says "everybody likes zippers" with a little impish grin. Something tells me there's a story here, but he's not telling me.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

The looks people give you because you refuse to buy something healthy are rather embarrassing.

I know. I once had a woman overhear me have to tell my son over and over again that I really wouldn't buy any spinach, and give me evil looks. She must not have heard me explain to him that 1)spinach was $6.99/100g at the moment and 2) we still have half a boston lettuce at home to make salad. She just gave the 'bad mommy' looks and wandered off.