No wire coat hangers!

[gerund]

Cast:

Me: Guess who? Pertinent to the story - I'm 6' 4" and weigh about 350 lbs.
OS: Another shopper, a young man - perhaps early twenties
SC: Mother with two young children a girl who was perhaps 5 or 6 and a boy (4 or 5)

So I'm following my well worn track on the weekly shopping in the local supermarket. I approach the fish counter and the OS is talking to the man behind the counter. As I approach the counter they stop talking and the server takes my order. No suck there!

Just at that moment as the server is getting my fish I hear this:-

SC: (Turning on girl) NOW STOP THAT! I'VE TOLD YOU TO BEHAVE! NOW WALK PROPERLY!

SC turns and take two steps pushing her shopping trolley. Little girl takes three skipping steps behind her. SC stops and shouts again.

SC: IT'S NO GOOD - YOU'RE SKIPPING! I TOLD YOU TO WALK PROPERLY! NO SKIPPING!

SC turns back to trolley and stomps off, little girl trailing behind her trying desperately not to skip.

I turn to OS.

Me: Well I'll have to remember that, next time I want to skip - no skipping in the store!
OS: (Smiling at me) I thought the idea of being young was to have fun while you could. Obviously not.
Me: I don't want her for my Mummy.

The three of us laughed (me with sadness for the little girl who was not allowed to skip) and I went on my way.

Bonus points to anyone who says where the Title is from.

[TonyDonuts]

Cast:

Bonus points to anyone who says where the Title is from.

"Yes, Mommie Dearest."

Creepy, creepy movie

[Sheldonrs]

"Tina!!! Bring me the ax!"

[chainedbarista]

wow...o__O

that poor child will need massive therapy and prescriptions later on in life, methinks.

although, mom could benefit from some 'tranquilizer' action herself right now.

[Spiffy McMoron]

that poor child will need massive therapy and prescriptions later on in life, methinks.

I wonder what she'll be like when (if?) she moves out on her own--broken husk of a woman, or super-freaky party girl who tries to catch up on all of the fun she missed?

[fish3k1]

although, mom could benefit from some 'tranquilizer' action herself right now.

Think we can release her back into the wild? Probably not, by this point she's probably grown too dependent on nourishment by destroying the smiles of the young.

[Nyx]

*sigh* It always make me sad to see kids get yelled at for nothing.

[friendofjimmyk]

Damn - I see I've been beaten to the punch - "Mommie Dearest"

NO WIRE HANGERS IN MY CLOSET!!!!!!!!!!!!

that movie was pretty creepy.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

NO.....


WIRE.....


HANGARS!!!!!!

Faye Dunaway is freakin' scary in that movie.

[Mark Healey]

C'mon. If the kid crashed into and knocked over a display, everyone here would be coming down on the mother for letting her run wild.

[Cyphr]

C'mon. If the kid crashed into and knocked over a display, everyone here would be coming down on the mother for letting her run wild.

theres a difference between running and skipping - skipping is just sorta a floaty step so unless she was skipping at roughly 2000 KPH nothing would happen...

[tropicsgoddess]

"Tina!!! Bring me the ax!"

NO.....


WIRE.....


HANGARS!!!!!!

"Yes, Mommie Dearest."

Bonus points to anyone who says where the Title is from.

Poor little kid...it's a shame she's got that kind of mother.

"I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt!!"

I'll tack on more bonus points if anybody can guess what movie I got my siggy from.

[gerund]

Mommie Dearest

I suppose that clip from the movie (where she says with clenched teeth "NO WIRE COAT HANGERS") was one of the most played clips advertising a movie. It was great acting. She managed to get all the venom and hatred into those four words.

When the SC shouted at her little girl "NO SKIPPING" I just wanted to slap her. The Mother that is. Then I wanted to speak nicely to her. "Your daughter is just a little girl. Little girls skip. She must be bored trailing behind you in a big store where you are not allowed to play with anything. You have such a full trolley of groceries - you must have been shopping for ages. Well it must seem like ages when you are only small and not allowed to skip or play."

Would that have worked? I don't think so. I would have been told to go away and mind my own business.

[karath]

I wonder what she'll be like when (if?) she moves out on her own--broken husk of a woman, or super-freaky party girl who tries to catch up on all of the fun she missed?

If people from my hometown are any indication, I'm going to with option C: Both

[JesseCuster40]

The polar opposite of "Aw, I'm just too damned lazy to discipline my kid at all, so I'm just going to let them wander around the store by themselves/ride bikes through the store/throw balls around/destroy the DVD section, repeatedly/zoom around on their damned Heelies, or basically do whatever they want" parents.

Recently I saw a little boy, about four years old, in the electronics department. He was looking at a kid's DVD and decided to take it with him, stripping the plastic wrap from it as he went. I followed him, hoping that he'd soon run into a parent, but nope, he walked all the way to the front of the store, obviously having no idea where they were.

I asked him if he knew where his parents were and he just nodded. I think he was too shy to talk. When his parents eventually turned up fifteen minutes later (easily enough time for him to have been taken out of the store by a stranger) they seemed more amused by it than anything else.

Surely there must be some middle ground somewhere!