obnoxious kid

[Rine]

I hate kids and escalators.

Today, we had just opened. I was hanging up a sign on the second floor over the overhang...eh, it's hard to explain, but basically I had full view of the up escalator. Parents and one child walks up. Child is about ten or nine years old. Parents get on escalator. Kid follows, but stops quickly.

She flips up the little plastic cover and hits the big red emergency stop button. It makes a buzzing sound but she doesn't hold it long enough to shut it down.

Parents don't even turn around. "Don't do that!" the mom says.

Girl: "But I'm not doing anything!"

They go up the escalator. Parents get off. Little girl gets off, but spies the other plastic cover with the emergency stop button. She lifts it up and slams her little hand down on it. Buzzing ensues. Escalator stops.

Parent: "Honey, don't do that!" (they didn't even turn around!)

Girl: "But I didn't do anything!" Then she runs to catch up with her parents.

Thank GOD no one was on the escalator, or they could have lost their balance and fallen because that girl decided to hit the button.

I gave her the mean eye when she walked by me. Some kids just make me angry.

[Aethian]

If this had been my kid it would have been home and gone straight to bed and I don't care if it was 9 in the morning either. I would also put them in the quest bedroom, no toys or anything in there.

[Evil Queen]

This is why I will not have spawn of my own.

That and I scream at everyone else's hell spawn enough to the point where it would be just plain dumb if I have my own.

[StevieJD]

You know children can accidently trip and fall?

Sometimes ya gotta help them, but the results are the same.

[Andara Bledin]

Wow. I would have told the girl, "You know, when I was your age, I got my mouth washed out with soap for telling lies."

And I'd have made damn sure the parents heard me, too.

^-.-^

[MrSunshineState]

Yet another reason I despise parents. I don't think I could ever be one.

[sarahj]

A kid fell down a few steps on the escalator at Mum's work last year. She's first-aid trained so she rushed over to them. The kid's finger got mashed up and she called an ambulance ASAP. All because the poor kid's parent couldn't be bothered to hold their hand.

[Snowbird]

Kids and elevators have been a bane of my own shopping experiences. I can't count how many times I've been blocked and delayed in either getting on one or even using the thing because a child thought it was funny to run repeatedly up the down side or vice versa. They can never figure out that maybe they should stop when a crowd of people are trying to move through, and their parents are never to be found, likely off chewing their cud in the sale rack grazing grounds.

Off topic though, but speaking of kids, I went to a movie recently and was more than a little surprised to see a young boy in the ladies restroom. He wasn't a toddler, he was more around the age of eight, I'd say. Am I wrong to find this a little off putting? To make it worse, he was looking under his mothers stall (or at least I hope it was hers), and the place was packed. He could have gotten the wrong stall, and the door was broken on the one I'd used, I kept it closed precariously with one hand. If he'd pushed on it... well.

[NightWatch]

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Off topic though, but speaking of kids, I went to a movie recently and was more than a little surprised to see a young boy in the ladies restroom. He wasn't a toddler, he was more around the age of eight, I'd say. Am I wrong to find this a little off putting? To make it worse, he was looking under his mothers stall (or at least I hope it was hers), and the place was packed. He could have gotten the wrong stall, and the door was broken on the one I'd used, I kept it closed precariously with one hand. If he'd pushed on it... well.

Sorry, this is off topic too.. a few months ago I was at a public pool and of course changing in the ladies locker room. While I'm in mid-change, this stupid woman comes in with her 10 year old son. That's right, 10... He then proceeds to stare at me until I leave. I told management and they were rather angry, guess they had already told her that he had to go the boys locker room and she wouldn't listen.

[Boochan]

I mean sure its a safety requirement, but sometimes I wish the emergency stop buttons for many different things were a bit more subtle. Always a major pain in the ass to see a kid stuffing around on an escalator, even an elevator eyeing the big red button and tempting to press it.

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Off topic though, but speaking of kids, I went to a movie recently and was more than a little surprised to see a young boy in the ladies restroom. He wasn't a toddler, he was more around the age of eight, I'd say. Am I wrong to find this a little off putting? To make it worse, he was looking under his mothers stall (or at least I hope it was hers), and the place was packed. He could have gotten the wrong stall, and the door was broken on the one I'd used, I kept it closed precariously with one hand. If he'd pushed on it... well.

You can blame the media for this I think.. too many over-protected worried parents thinking that if they let their kid go in to the mens room by themselves that they're going to get kidnapped/molested. I've heard instances of kids as old as 13 (!!!) been taken to the bathroom with their mother, into the ladies room.
A bit of a concern IMO.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Obviously, they've never heard of female pedophilia. -.-