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This is the tale of a woman who didn't use her head at all.
It was early one morning (8 AM, an early shift for me) and I was tired and still waking up when I encountered a woman doing two stupid things.
1) She gave her 3-year-old daughter cheese curls for breakfast!
2) She actually gave her 3-year-old daughter cheese curls for breakfast; and by that I mean she handed her the huge, family-size bag of store-brand cheese curls to hold. When I saw this I looked at my cashier (I was bagging that day) and we both just gave each other these "this woman is asking for it" looks. She told her daughter "don't drop it" but I knew that the inevitable would happen soon enough. We actually got through the whole order, bagged, paid for and everything, without a mess. I thought we had made it when the woman nudged her daughter forward and the WHOLE BAG (minus 3 or 4 chips) dumped onto the floor; crumbs, cheese dust and all. The woman just said "Oops! Sorry!" and giggled. What a waste of food! We still made her pay for that bag.
This woman just trusted her daughter a bit too much. Even I know that handing a 3-year-old a big bag of chips is the equivalent of telling the child "please dump the contents of this bag on the floor."
It was early one morning (8 AM, an early shift for me) and I was tired and still waking up when I encountered a woman doing two stupid things.
1) She gave her 3-year-old daughter cheese curls for breakfast!
2) She actually gave her 3-year-old daughter cheese curls for breakfast; and by that I mean she handed her the huge, family-size bag of store-brand cheese curls to hold. When I saw this I looked at my cashier (I was bagging that day) and we both just gave each other these "this woman is asking for it" looks. She told her daughter "don't drop it" but I knew that the inevitable would happen soon enough. We actually got through the whole order, bagged, paid for and everything, without a mess. I thought we had made it when the woman nudged her daughter forward and the WHOLE BAG (minus 3 or 4 chips) dumped onto the floor; crumbs, cheese dust and all. The woman just said "Oops! Sorry!" and giggled. What a waste of food! We still made her pay for that bag.
This woman just trusted her daughter a bit too much. Even I know that handing a 3-year-old a big bag of chips is the equivalent of telling the child "please dump the contents of this bag on the floor."
Some of you might remember this from a long-gone incarnation of this board. I was working in the shoe department, which had carpet floors (unlike the rest of the store outside the clothing departments which had tile floors.) The mother had her 2 kids in her cart, and they were eating popcorn that they bought from the in-store food court. I heard a lot of noise and commotion from their aisle of my dept, and I decided to go to that aisle and pretend to face it to prevent any major aisle damage. The kids were eating popcorn and it was being dropped all over the floor! It was like they grabbed a handful of popcorn out of the jumbo bag, and one piece of popcorn would go in the mouth while the rest would go through the holes in the cart and onto the floor, half of it being crushed into the carpet by the cart as the mother ever-so-knowingly moved it every now and then. The mother was silent and letting the kids drop the popcorn everywhere. She quickly pushed their cart down another aisle of the department after she saw me on the aisle, and I thought all was well. A minute later, I heard the mother yell from across the deparment "QUIT DROPPING THAT D*** POPCORN!" I heard them leave the department, and I quickly rushed to see how much they dropped. They must've had a bags-worth of popcorn on each og the 8 or so aisles of my shoe department! 
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