Screeching Bandshees Part 105

[blas]

Normally, I am glad to see that there are still parents here and there who teach their children manners.

In this case, they need to teach their children to shut the hell up, and not to get progressively louder and more shrill just because someone didn't answer you.

Leaving the gym, the one and only employee at the front desk had just made smoothies for a family of Soccer Mommy and Daddy and their three little.....angels, all between probably 3 and 10. Right as the employee dropped off the beverages, the phone rang, and he went off to answer it.

One kid said "Thank you!", didn't get an answer, so she yelled "THANK YOU!" a little louder, then a little louder yet.....then a fourth time full out screamed it, while the smallest child had been mocking the progressively louder "THANK YOU!" right behind her older sister, like most young kids who think repeating everything that's been said is sooo funny. Mom and Dad said nothing, of course.

[MoonCat]

When I saw the thread title I thought of my neighbors.

I hate when kids yell like that.

[Spork4pedro]

oy...well the parents at least get some points for teaching their kids to say "Thank you!" but some follow through would have been nice!

[Teskeria]

Now my daughter has done that (when quite young) without the yelling. my fav time: Shes about 2, a cute little blonde. A man goes to the soda machine and gets a pepsi. She stands there, looks at him, looks at the machine, looks at him, ect. Suddenly he shrugs, buys a pepsi and hands it to her. She then says 'thank you' he says nothing so she repeats. after the third time he looks at me, grinning and says 'why does she keep saying it?' so I said, 'shes two, she knows when someone say thank you shes supposed to say you're welcome. at 2 they expect grownups to understand this automatically." so he grins at her and says you're welcome and she runs to me saying 'nice man, pepsi! nice man!'

[rageaholic]

I swear there's some cardinal rule that young kids have to be as annoying as possible? I remember once in a restaurant, a kid kept shouting "CHEARS!!!" until his mother answered him. I don't know whose more annoying, the kids who keep shouting, or the adults who don't give them a simple answer to shut them the fuck up.

[Squeaksmyalias]

She then says 'thank you' he says nothing so she repeats. after the third time he looks at me, grinning and says 'why does she keep saying it?' so I said, 'shes two, she knows when someone say thank you shes supposed to say you're welcome. at 2 they expect grownups to understand this automatically." so he grins at her and says you're welcome and she runs to me saying 'nice man, pepsi! nice man!'

Ok now THAT is too cute.

[blas]

No, it's more of a cardinal rule that people who don't care for children will most often be subjected to them and their antics, aka, always being sat by families at restaurants, always being in line at the store by annoying kids, always hearing kids scream out in public, etc.

[dalesys]

OT:
From the title I was hoping for a rant about some new "musical" group of loathsome {genre of reader's choice}.

It even looks like a band name + CD title!

[Mystic]

Am I the only one who thought:

"Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mama, mama, mama, mama, mom, mom... etc."

[Rapscallion]

I swear there's some cardinal rule that young kids have to be as annoying as possible?

Just the way children are, and how people react to them, I guess. I was never like that when I was young, of course, nor was anyone here.

Rapscallion

[Sapphire Silk]

Just the way children are, and how people react to them, I guess. I was never like that when I was young, of course, nor was anyone here.

Rapscallion

I tried to be, but Dad smacked me down the minute I got out of line.

[dalesys]

I was never like that when I was young, of course, nor was anyone here.

Forgot the , didn't you?

The worst beating I ever got was when my mother said, "I'm sick" and I chimed in with "and tired."

I don't remember the next three days.

-- Cosby

Well, or tolerably behaved children (and adults) are practically invisible. They're there, but we don't notice them.

[KabeRinnaul]

One kid said "Thank you!", didn't get an answer, so she yelled "THANK YOU!" a little louder, then a little louder yet.....then a fourth time full out screamed it

Hell, I had a grown woman do this to me one day on register, because I was too busy (lines were backed into the aisles) to respond with a clear enough "You're Welcome". She stood at the end of my lane saying it louder and louder while I was trying to get the next person.

[ThanosIsKing]

Am I the only one who thought:

"Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mama, mama, mama, mama, mom, mom... etc."

You mean this?

Yeah, I thought that also.

[Red_Dazes]

Just the way children are, and how people react to them, I guess. I was never like that when I was young, of course, nor was anyone here.

Rapscallion

of course not. we were all ALWAYS well behaved and wonderful children.... the glowing example of how children should act.