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    Hi all,

    I've been a lurker for quite some time, but never has anything worth posting. I have a couple of stories, both unrelated.

    The first is from my brother, who works in a rock climbing gym. He was helping some customers at the counter when he noticed a mother who had bought her two children in. The eldest (about 9) was up at the top of a wall and his little brother (7ish) was belaying him at the bottom. First of all, this is pretty dangerous as the rules are you have to be 13 before you can belay. Anyway, the mum is just standing there smiling when all of a sudden the kid at the top of the wall unclips himself from his harness whilst hanging at the top of the wall.

    Seeing the obvious chance for disaster, my brother rushes to clip on another rope and starts climbing up the wall, all the while yelling for someone to belay him. He gets to the kid and grabs on to him to start taking him down. This is when the kid starts kicking and screaming and punching him. By the way this whole time the mother has just been standing there motionless.

    When he gets to the ground safely with the child, the mother confronts him:

    Mum: What are you doing! He's autistic!
    Bro: That doesn't mean he wont get badly hurt if he falls from up there.
    Mum: You don't understand, he's autistic.

    At this stage the mum gathers her kids and leaves, continuing to spout "You don't understand" to anyone that tried to talk to her.


    This second one comes from my work.

    I work for an audio/visual company that mainly gets hired for corporate events and conferences. This involves working in a lot of hotels and of course this leads to lots of questions like "I locked myself out of my room" and "Can you send someone to restock the mini bar" Of course we have to politely explain that we don't actually work for the hotel. I don't mind this, I mean I would probably mistake me for hotel staff as well.

    However, I was working this conference and of course there is always a baby somewhere. The mother of this baby approached me and a break in the conference.

    Me
    Self-Important-Baby-Lady

    SIBL: Can you let me into this room (points) It was open yesterday but now it's locked. I need somewhere to feed.
    Me: Actually, I don't work for the hotel, but if you could find one of the banquet staff I'm sure they'd have a key. (This is when she waves me off and starts walking away mid sentence)
    SIBL: (Talking to herself) I need somewhere to feed! Where can I feed! (I found the way she kept repeating this a little disturbing)

    This is when another nice lady approaches her.
    Nice lady: (To baby lady) Excuse me, I don't mind if you use my room.
    SIBL: Oh well it's just the yesterday the staff were actually HELPFUL!
    She turns around and spits this last word at me. I'm not paid to put up with this, so I left. No matter though, she seemed not to listen and probably had no idea who I was or who I worked for anyway.


    Thanks for the vent, I feel much better.

  • #2
    Wait, did the woman in the first story just let her autistic 9 year-old kid climb, with only his younger brother to make sure he doesn't get hurt ?

    I'll admit she is right : I don't understand.
    "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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    • #3
      Mum: You don't understand, he's autistic.
      It's too bad you can't inflict upon the mother the grief of her son getting terribly hurt without her son actually getting terribly hurt. He was in a LOT of danger and the staff did exactly the right thing to go help him.

      SIBL: Oh well it's just the yesterday the staff were actually HELPFUL!
      Me: Lady, try to pay attention. I _do_ _not_ work here. So, don't get mad at me if I don't have a key. It's not my fault that you're not bright enough to just go find one of the public restrooms here and use one of the stalls.
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      • #4
        Quoth Samaliel View Post
        Wait, did the woman in the first story just let her autistic 9 year-old kid climb, with only his younger brother to make sure he doesn't get hurt ?

        I'll admit she is right : I don't understand.
        Well, she was standing there next to the younger kid, but from what I've heard it was an odd specticle indeed.

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        • #5
          Sorry, it looks like I wasn't quite clear : I don't understand how on earth she would allow her autistic son climb without informing the staff of her son's condition beforehand, and disregard security recommandations about belaying !
          "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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          • #6
            Yeah, that first lady needs a wake up call. I don't know if she knows what autism is, but it's sure as hell not a magical field that protects your child from harm. I think this is one of those situations where the state needs to be involved.

            And to the second lady: grow up and act your age. You're a mother now, and I hope you don't pass your idiocy/bad manners to your child. Which she, of course, will.
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            • #7
              ummm... wow... i just don't have words for the first lady. I climb alot and I don't belay for most of them as they more than double my weight and I just don't feel comfortable if they fall. Not only would the 9 year old get hurt but so would the like one at the bottom.

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              • #8
                Quoth Apathy View Post
                And to the second lady: grow up and act your age. You're a mother now, and I hope you don't pass your idiocy/bad manners to your child. Which she, of course, will.
                not gonna say it!!! not gonna say it!!!!! Awww man!!!I gotta say it!!!

                Mama always said, "Stupid is as Stupid does"





                Unfortunately, I think you're right. She will pass the Stupid on to her offspring (or hellspawn as the case may be.)

                Someone here has the tagline in their signature that says , "The stupid is strong with this one." and I think it fits with both ladies in the OP.
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                • #9
                  Surely, by the time the boy is 9 years old, that you'd know what autism involves ...

                  There is a customer that we get on occasion and her son is autistic. Although she is quite strict with him (you can tell, her "tough love" is making him improve though, he has more manners than he did), I'll bet she'd NEVER let her son climb a wall unsupervised and against the rules ....


                  I wonder what other things that mom lets her boy get away with .... ?
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                  • #10
                    Quoth karma_gypsy View Post
                    I wonder what other things that mom lets her boy get away with .... ?
                    Theft, murder, probably hitting little girls too. (Spoken from an actual customer sighting in a toy store somewhere. It was hell and the manager had to ban the mother and autistic child from the store, with the mother screaming "lawsuit" over and over.)
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                    • #11
                      Quoth silver_sonic View Post
                      Hi all,

                      I've been a lurker for quite some time, but never has anything worth posting. I have a couple of stories, both unrelated.
                      Welcome


                      Quoth silver_sonic View Post
                      SIBL: Oh well it's just the yesterday the staff were actually HELPFUL!
                      My response would likely have been; "Well, if you had contacted a member of the STAFF, they could have been helpful TODAY as well..."

                      Sometimes people just need a verbal kick upside the head.


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                      • #12
                        Wait... so it's okay if the kid in the first story does whatever he wants without immediate supervision just because he's autistic?

                        Wait--unless... That's it! Maybe if I was autistic I could defy gravity, too!

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                        • #13
                          ..... ok i have to say it...
                          maybe she was hoping he would kill himself...
                          on you know a subconciouse level

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                          • #14
                            I think what the mom possibly may have meant was that grabbing him like that freaked him out because of the autism, maybe that's what she was implying they didn't understand. Does it make her any less stupid? No.
                            "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

                            Hurts, doesn't it?

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                            • #15
                              Quoth aspira View Post
                              I think what the mom possibly may have meant was that grabbing him like that freaked him out because of the autism, maybe that's what she was implying they didn't understand. Does it make her any less stupid? No.
                              Thats exactly what I was thinking, on both counts.
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