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  • Lady, you had better be glad your kids didn't cause me to fall

    I am not supposed to bump my head because I've had more than one concussion. OK, four. Anything that might knock me into a shelf or down to the floor is going to tick me off. So I'm coming up an aisle while shopping after work today when two boys are racing a shopping cart down the perpenicular aisle toward me. The stop short of me just as I round the corner. I don't react visually or verbally because I need to hold my temper. "OK, go back that way," one says to the other and they race back the other direction.

    OK, that's it. I whip out my phone and call Operator Girl and tell her these kids almost ran into me and could she alert the MOD? She practically hangs up on me to get the MOD's attention right away. So I casually walk the direction they're going to get a good look at Parent of the Year, but miss them because they're too far away and Mom is ready to leave. (I hear, "Boys! Come on!" I don't even think she's been paying attention to them.) Next thing I know AP Guy--whose biceps are bigger than my head--comes racing up the main aisle as fast as he can without actually running and I think has missed them. I would've liked to hear that exchange, actually. But I am so proud of our AP team. They are on it.
    "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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    Glad you didn't get hurt! And I HATE parents who let their kids run amok. And I AM a parent.

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    • #3
      I decided to wander around Wally World the other day to get some things I'm out of, I'm barely inside the store when a kid, who looked no longer then seven, decided it would be a fine time to learn how to back a cart up by going backwards himself. Nearly ran into me if I hadn't told him to watch out, he stopped probably a good four inches before he ran into my cart -- he just gave me this blank look as I walk around him.

      Don't know what happened to him after that, don't really care.
      Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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      • #4
        Oh I love the ones at the register that keep asking over and over if they can have some candy, "Mom can I get this? Mom can I? Mom can I have it? Mom want this! Mom... mom... MOM!" and mom just ignores her kid not saying a word while everyone around them suddenly has a case of twitching eye syndrome

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        • #5
          Every single time I go to the grocery store. Arg. Last time it was a little girl who was cheerfully twirling around the aisle with her arms out. She did dodge me, but didn't stop, just twirled around me and continued. I'm sure the parent was thinking "look how cute she is, so happy and not bothering me." When I was thinking "wow, how long until she twirls headfirst into a shelf?"
          Replace anger management with stupidity management.

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          • #6
            Quoth notalwaysright View Post
            Every single time I go to the grocery store. Arg. Last time it was a little girl who was cheerfully twirling around the aisle with her arms out. She did dodge me, but didn't stop, just twirled around me and continued. I'm sure the parent was thinking "look how cute she is, so happy and not bothering me." When I was thinking "wow, how long until she twirls headfirst into a shelf?"
            This, so much this. All the time.
            "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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            • #7
              Quoth notalwaysright View Post
              When I was thinking "wow, how long until she twirls headfirst into a shelf?"
              She will...and then you'll get to hear the parent(s) screaming about a lawsuit. I mean, how dare that store put a shelf where their pwecious widdle angel fall into it
              Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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              • #8
                Oh I love the ones at the register that keep asking over and over if they can have some candy, "Mom can I get this? Mom can I? Mom can I have it? Mom want this! Mom... mom... MOM!" and mom just ignores her kid not saying a word while everyone around them suddenly has a case of twitching eye syndrome
                At least the parent is not giving in. What kills me are the ones who say no for five minutes and then give in. All that teaches is that you get what you want if you whine long enough.
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                • #9
                  Quoth AnaKhouri View Post
                  At least the parent is not giving in. What kills me are the ones who say no for five minutes and then give in. All that teaches is that you get what you want if you whine long enough.
                  Still, the parent could have at least firmly said "NO." and informed the kid that, if they continued to whine, they would be taken out of the store and punished later at home. Kids will NOT stop asking questions until a parental figure either answers them, gives them what they want, or else threatens them with punishment if they will not stop.

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                  • #10
                    Sadly, many of my customers don't pay any attention to what their kids are doing during their interview. A lot of my coworkers have crayons for the kids to use, I don't. The kids write all over the cube walls, on the rarely cleaned carpet and on the chairs. Some of my coworkers have small toys for the kids to play with. I don't, because the parents don't care if the kids walk away with them. I have puzzles with large wood pieces that don't fit in pockets. The pieces still walk away.

                    Every time I call a customer and see them bringing kids in, I cringe. I do get a little evil satisfaction when a kid defeats my child proof plugs and shuts my comp down. "I'm so sorry Ms Smith. Little Johnny just shut my comp down. We are going to have to wait for at least 5 minutes and then start over. Perhaps you shouldn't let him play with electrical or computer plugs so we can get this done."

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                    • #11
                      I've had to tell off this girl for doing cartwheels in our store. yes .... cartwheels.

                      Her mother just lets her do it.

                      The damn kid just cartwheels down the isles, and ignores me when I ask her not to do such things. Mother is not bothered either that her kid is cartwheeling past other customers.

                      One day that kid will kick someone ... and she really will have to address the problem.

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                      • #12
                        Things like this-- kids potentially crashing into other shoppers, or potentially crashing into shelves/merchandise and hurting themselves-- are why the wholesale club I used to work at banned those "heelie" shoes with the little roller skate wheels in the heels.

                        Well, "banned" them as in "don't ride them in the store."

                        Most parents didn't have too much of an issue with me asking them, politely, "Please don't ride those in the store, please," and if they took issue with it, I usually replied with "It's a safety concern."

                        I did snap at one pair of kids with their dad as they were leaving. They come zipping up on their heelies, and I stop them, saying the above. I check the dad's receipt, and as they start to leave they start to ride them, still well-inside the store, with other people coming and going through the door.

                        So I snapped, "WHAT did I just tell you!?" They stopped, shocked, and turned to dad, who just gave them a Look that said, "Seriously, he JUST told you."

                        They got outside the doors and started riding them again, but by then, they weren't inside, so it wasn't an issue.
                        PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.

                        There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!

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                        • #13
                          I have been known to step in front of children who are running down the aisles of a store and tell them. 'This is not a gymnasium. We do not run in stores.' I'm a rather wide person, so it's effective. So far I haven't had any parents yell at me (they're never nearby), so I've been lucky.

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                          • #14
                            Just Friday I kept trying to get away from a high pitched shrieking toddler. She had one of those seriously shrill high pitched shrieks that make you ear drum physically contract and hurt. And was doing it just for the fun of hearing herself shriek every 5 seconds or so.

                            Mom seemed to be deaf to the shrieks. She was also blind to the 2 boys (approx. 6yo & 9yo) shoving each other around while laughing.... hard.

                            So hard the younger one got got shoved to the ground in front of my cart just as I got some momentum going trying to escape the shrieks. I got dirty looks, cat butt face and a lecture on being more careful while steering my cart.....
                            I think.....
                            I could not hear most of it because of the shrieking.
                            I excused myself on account of my ears ringing and a migraine starting.

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                            • #15
                              Things like this are why I'm a supporter of Leash Laws... for children!

                              I also believe this should be a real product:



                              "Eventually one outgrows the fairy tales of childhood, belief in Santa and the Easter Bunny, and believing that SCs are even capable of imagining themselves in our position."
                              --StanFlouride

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