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  • What at Vic's Secret could be THAT freakin' important?

    Happened last week:

    I was shopping at Victoria's Secret semi-annual sale. This is the only time I can afford their stuff, so I tend to try to stock up when it rolls around.

    I'm happily perusing the 75 percent off shower gel area, when a lady and her friend walk in. One of the women has a boy toddler in a stroller. I'd peg the kid to be between 2 and 3 years of age.

    All of a sudden, the kid lets out an ear piercing scream. We are talking that wake-the-dead, grab a gun, duck-for-cover sort of scream that is usually reserved for B horror movies.

    People gave a few startled looks at the woman and her friend. She kept shopping.

    The kid screams some more. Getting increasingly louder with each breath.

    She kept shopping.

    At this point, a few people were visibly uncomfortable with the shrill wailing. I was not one of them. I was somewhat appalled that the woman didn't seem to take notice of her child, but having raised two boys (one being ADHD), my ears have grown numb to the sounds of tantrums YEARS ago.

    *Side note: Unlike many EW parents, I didn't subject the public to Danny's screeching. If I couldn't find someone to watch him, I didn't go out unless it was urgent.

    Anyway, the woman next to me utters "Jesus" under her breath and glanced at me, wide eyed. I just shook my head and tsked.

    It gets better.

    The kid managed to get the stroller's safety belt undone and has managed to lift himself up and out of the stroller. He then proceeded to throw himself to the floor and added kicking and beating his fists to his repertoire.

    Mom FINALLY glances up and says: "Johnny. Stop it."

    Calmly. Just like that. No move to place him back in the stroller, or quiet him or...you know... LEAVE THE FREAKIN' STORE. Just, tells him to stop it.

    Johnny didn't stop it.

    He then gets up, goes over to a display of perfumes (many of which were in glass containers), and begins tugging on the cloth display that they sat on. Bottles and containers of perfume and lotions go flying, tumbling to the floor, a couple of which landed *on* the screaming kid.

    One of the employee's gasped and went to grab the items and looked pointedly at the mother and said, 'Is your son ok?'.

    Mother of the year replies: "What? Oh, he fine!" (Yes, HE fine. Not HE'S fine. Gotta love it.)

    The employee began straightening the items that had fallen, and the mother FINALLY gathers up little Johnny (still wailing and flailing his body) and saunters out of the store, like she hadn't a care in the world.

    A few customers (myself included) breathed an audible sigh of relief once they left.

    Now I ask you, WHAT THE HELL could be so important at Vic's Secret that would make it worth all of that?

    Seriously, ya'll. It takes a lot to shake me up, especially when it comes to kids- but this was just....such a sad indicator of some of the EW parenting of today.

    It makes me weep for our future.
    Last edited by Peppergirl; 01-15-2011, 06:51 AM.
    "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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    In my opinion, a lot of parents are really selfish and still haven't learned that as soon as you get pregnant, the world stops revovling around you and someone else is more important now.

    Last year my mom and I went shopping at Vicky's, where a toddler had obviously crapped their pants, it stunk so horrible, we knew it was coming from the young family with the multiple kids, and they just kept chatting along with their friends and the smell stunk up the entire store. Little Johnny and Susie shitting their pants means nothing, I HAVE to get my shopping done NOW!
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    • #3
      I once saw a pre-teen (like 11 or 12 years old) do the whole tantrum kicking & screaming thing on the floor in the middle of a store.
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      • #4
        Quoth bainsidhe View Post
        I once saw a pre-teen (like 11 or 12 years old) do the whole tantrum kicking & screaming thing on the floor in the middle of a store.
        My cousin still does that sometimes, and she's 19
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        • #5
          Quoth zombiequeen View Post
          My cousin still does that sometimes, and she's 19
          What?

          Literally, laying on the ground kicking and screaming???

          Holy shit! Unless there's some underlying disorder that's causing it, that's some seriously messed up behavior.
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          • #6
            One of the girls that I went to school with used to slap her mother hard on the face right in the middle of the shopping centre when she didn't get her own way.
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            • #7
              She is extremely spoiled, her brother is Autistic, and she's always gotten away with whatever she wants...there might be some underlying mental issues with her too, but I
              can't say for sure.
              She's a sweet girl, but I will never go shopping with her because she is worse than any kid I've ever seen throw a fit at the store.
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              • #8
                My cousin's son (ok, I guess that's my 2nd cousin?) used to actively bite his parents and any other adults who tried to discipline him, until he was practically in kindergarten!

                Funny thing is, if his older sister had tried that when she was his age, she would have been smacked into next week.
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                • #9
                  My son rarely had moments like that, but there were a few. One time, back in my single parent days, I took him out to eat somewhere, and he threw a tantrum that was so bad I ended up leaving before we ordered anything.

                  But like I said, that was a very rare case. Normally he did great when we were eating out. He loved to chat (or maybe flirt) with the waitresses.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth blas View Post
                    My cousin's son (ok, I guess that's my 2nd cousin?)
                    *puts on genealogist hat* First Cousin once removed.

                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin#Cousin_chart

                    Working out cousin relations is SO ANNOYING. Though I've seen a fun practice that has you look at the family trees from Harry Potter and work out the relationships between Harry, Draco, Tonks, Ron and Neville...
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                    • #11
                      Sounds like to me that the poor kid wanted attention so badly. When my niece was 6 or 7 years old we took her school clothes shopping,her mother is worthless. She starts throwing herself in the floor and screaming. My hubby is like what do we do and hes getting upset.So I pick her up smack her butt lightly and tell her go to the car. We went to McDonalds and we had a little talk over dinner about her behavior. I told her that if she wanted to act like a big girl then she would get to pick out school clothes.If not then she wouldnt get nothing. Also she was scared to go play at the MD playground. She said she was scared we might leave her,her mom does. Yes folks my worthless sister in law leaves her kid at the MD playground. Point is when my niece is with the hubby and me totally different kid.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth candyshopgirl View Post
                        Also she was scared to go play at the MD playground. She said she was scared we might leave her,her mom does. Yes folks my worthless sister in law leaves her kid at the MD playground.
                        Is having a word with her husband is out of the question?
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                        • #13
                          *twitch*
                          i'm gonna try reeeally hard to not start ranting about parents these days. i could go for hours about my opinions on parenting.

                          all i'm gonna say is that for the brief amount of time that The Kid (The Hubs' daughter from first marriage) was around, we didn't put up with screaming or any type of that behavior.
                          i took her to the store to pick out some coloring books and she started pouting because i wouldn't let her get every single one she wanted. she stuck her bottom lip out and folded her arms across her chest and started sulking.

                          so i grabbed her bottom lip and started wiggling it. i told her that if she's gonna stick her lip out, she's gonna get it grabbed. she started giggling and some random old guy busted up laughing.

                          i really don't understand why parents let their kids get away with acting inappropriately in public. it's really not difficult to teach kids what's right and wrong.

                          oh wait. that means the parents have to actually give a crap and...i said i wasn't gonna rant. gr.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth greek_jester View Post
                            Is having a word with her husband is out of the question?
                            he is as stupid and worthless as she is. neither of them work and they have their exs living in the house with them. yeah and the rumor is they are having group sex. yuck. we threaten to take the kids away every week

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                            • #15
                              This actually made me chuckle a little bit because it reminds me of what my ex used to do. We would be out somewhere and at this point we were like 15 or 16. We would be in a restaurant or fast food place and some kid would throw a fit and I remember once very vividly: My ex stared at this little kid, who was screaming in his stroller, and because this had been going on for "too long" (how he put it) and the mother hadn't done anything...

                              He walked up in front of the kid and went: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAH AAAAAAHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" Right in his face.

                              Stopped the kid mid scream. Of course the mother turned around and was just appalled but we just sauntered on off and the kid didn't make a single peep after that. He said he'd made a practice of it because he had THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS and it had always worked on them.

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