Bathroom terrorists

[0oAmericanGirl]

So I'm in the bathroom, and for those of you that don't know I work in a hospital. We don't have the luxuary of having a staff only bathroom in our area so we share a general bathroom with the public...eh..

I'm doing my business and I hear the shouts of little kids comming in. I'm not the only person in there btw. I hear banging and the entire stall shakes and I hear an old lady scream "get out of here and leave me alone". The banging continues and I come out to see boys between the ages of 4 and I guess 8 running around and trying to force their way into the stalls and banging on the doors. I yell at them to get lost and one of the kids turns around and says "F*** you". I was a bit surprised by this and I dared not go any further with it. I come out and called security. The boys are still in the bathroom terrorizing the ladies when the two security guards came up. The escorted them out and took them to their parents, who were in the waiting area, apparently didn't care that security just escorted their children back to the waiting area. Not sure if the parents were customers or were just visiting somone.

I hate people that think that they can let their little demons run around free like it's a playground. Of couse these are the same people that think it's ok to take their kids to to toy department and leave them there while they shop..

[Getoutofmylobby]

Kids really are different today. Must be all those shitty parents running around.

At the mall i overheard a little kid screaming "I'm gonna kill you!" at his dad in front of the video game store. I mean he couldn't have been more than 7.

When i was his age, my video game tantrums never involved patricide. Damn, i feel old.

[georgiab]

I work at a thrift store and it gets pretty hot in the warmer seasons so we always had the door open because the breeze feels awesome well a lady comes in and has a child who was about the age of a child who had just started walking pretty good welll she insists we shut the doors so her child doesn't run outside and something happens to her...I was furious Here's a thought WATCH HER!!!! Needless to say the child ran all over the damn place and the mother never payed any attention to her until she apparantly fell or something and then even after that she just continued to let her run around while customers complained about it being hot...

[uthdentroll]

bad parenting.
remember.... the kids are learning most of the behavior from their parents. if the parents behave like manic then .... guest what... kids gonna behave like manic

[SuperB]

I have no problem telling parents to... "Watch your child! They are NOT my responsibility to disipline.......!!!!!!" (one of the benefits of being an owner who is also a clerk who knows there is a time and place to yell at SC's)

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

What a couple of brats. I bet the parents and their spawn end up on an episode of Nanny 911.

[Buglady]

Alas, gone are the days when any adult who happened to be handy could take the nearest miscreant by the ear and march him back to his parents...

I have a pretty good Teacher Voice, though. I don't think it would even occur to me to call security over eight year olds. Which is probably going to be my downfall one of these days.

[AZangel]

I think parents(alot but not all) expect the world to watch out for their children. When we are at our chosen professions. That is retail, grocery, restaurant or whatever CS related business we are in, unless it's day care, we are not there to keep an eye on their children.


This didn't happen to me but a coworker a few years ago told me of an incident that happened to her. Just to show how much disrespect kids have these days. The kids were waiting at this counter to get something on their lunch break. Meanwhile, they thought it'd be fun to mess up the window. Well being as this coworker was busy and couldn't do anything until she got to them. When she did, she handed them a bottle of windex and paper towels and told them to clean them. Well I guess one of them mouthed back that she didn 't have to and the coworker adressed her again and told her as much that she did if she was so amused at messing them up. Needless to say, there was a nasty parental call after that one. I guess my point in sharing this story is that if you start lettin them run free when they're younger, they have a total lack of respect for anything later in life.

[bigjimaz]

What a couple of brats. I bet the parents and their spawn end up on an episode of Nanny 911.

or even worse...COPS.

[CRXPanda]

notice all these "bad parenting" problems began around the time of the mass "no spanking tour of 1995"??

[IT Grunt]

At the mall i overheard a little kid screaming "I'm gonna kill you!" at his dad in front of the video game store. I mean he couldn't have been more than 7.

If that had been me to my dad, he would have taken me up on the offer, and he had the moxy to back it up. I have no doubt what the end result would have been. No way, no how would he put up with that crap.

It drives me crazy that some parents let their kids do things that in the past would have gotten me and my siblings some very tanned hides, yet when called on it, get all defensive and accuse you of making stuff up about their 'precious little angels.'

[cpc]

NOW WITH PICS! WOOT!

Back in the day, I managed a women's shoe store (Yes, I was Al Bundy) and was squatting beside the counter filling out the UPS shipping book when a small child came running through my store (We were on kind of a reverse corner in the mall, meaning that sometimes people would come through our store as a kind of short-cut (See image)

So kid stops by a display instead of cutting through store as usual and looks around. I'm really just kind of curious at this point as to what's going on. I was actually about o ask if he needed any help when he 'drops trou' and begins to urinate....on my display. So it takes me a minute to get over my astionishment to yell, "HEY WHAT THE F#CK ARE YOU DOING?". He gets this scared look on his face and tries to button up and run but I grabbed him and threw him on the same couch he had just peed on (along with the display!) I wouldn't let him leave and made a security guard come over to witness everything. His mom comes walking by about then and doesn't even blink when I told her what he had done. Didnt. Say. A. Freaking. Word. No 'I'm Sorry'. No, I can't believe he did that." No, "I'll help clean this up/pay for the cleaning". Not even a "F#ck off, we hate your store." Not. A. Single. Word.
Parents don't discipline enough anymore.

cpc

[Becks]

I'm telling ya, if/when I have children they'll be the best behaved children in the history of the world, or I'll rent them to the Amish.

[ahanix1989]

If I did something wrong, I got a spanking.
Am I mentally disturbed by it? No. Do I resent my parents? No. I'm 18, I've never smoked or drinked in my life, and I'm doing fine. Three A's, and two B's is my average report card. I've only gotten in one semi-major accident (partly the other person's fault), and I'm seemingly well-liked by an ex-coworker.

I'm doing good, thanks to the discipline my parents gave me when I was young.

[nick1091]

What a couple of brats. I bet the parents and their spawn end up on an episode of Nanny 911.

Either that or those episodes of Maury and the like where parents ring their hands about their out of control kids, wondering how this could've happened when they've "tried everything." Undisciplined kids turn into undisciplined teenagers.