WHAT did you just do???

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Yesterday was crazies Day. I swear to God. First of the Month AND a Wednesday, I'm GLAD I'm not a cashier.

The worst was this 45 years old looking father and his 4 years old looking son, hitting each other with foam swords during their whole grocery shopping.

I mean they were going at it full force, the kid shoving people and throwing himself in front of carts...

The father riding his cart like it's the friggin' batmobile, passing close to run down my manager...

Oh wait it gets better!

Then the father decided it was a good idea to HIT the employees!!!

So he hit me on the arm, which I let slide...

Then in another part of the store, he hit me on the bum! WTF dude???!!?!?!!

I turned around and gave him the deathglare "NOW TRY TO DO THAT AGAIN SIR!"

He went for another hit, I ripped his foam sword out of his hand and hit him with it.

Apparently I'm the only one to retaliate because my lil cousin who works as a cachier told me he also hit her on the bum and his kid joined in too!!!

Expletives galore, GAWD!

[air914]

Great that's the kind of man that's going to be bringing this kid up? It's great to have fun and all but do it some place appropriate -maybe at a park??? A grocery store is hardly the right place - MAYBE a toy store - but still not really appropriate..... and hitting the employees? The manager should have asked them to leave - seems they were a lawsuit waiting to happen w/ sexual harassment or causing someone to slip & fall or get hurt b/c this kid and dad are jumping in front of their carts and crashing into them...... that's just ridiculous. Let's hope the kid's mom at least has her head on straight..... or else someone needs to go on wifeswap and another wife needs to come in and tell that dad to grow up a bit.

[iradney]

I would've ripped the guy's hand off.


Ok, not literally. But I would've said "If you touch my ass one more time, I'll see you in court for sexual harrassment and assault"

Or maybe I would just have ripped his hand off....

[Andara Bledin]

First witnessed incident should have garnered a request from an employee to knock it off.

Second withnessed incident should have gotten a warning about being ejected.

Third witnessed incident, and they get the boot.

There is no excuse for that sort of behavior in a grocery store.

^-.-^

[Soulstealer]

This is one of those cases where taking the law into your own hands would give me a buzz the rest of the day. I'm in favour of the sexual harrasment and assault charges others have advocated and would like to throw child endangerment and all around bad parenting in there.

It's child endangerment if the kid ends up as shark bait.

[Becks]

Your manager almost gets hit/run down, and (s)he says NOTHING??

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Your manager almost gets hit/run down, and (s)he says NOTHING??

I bet that was because the manager has been "neutered" and whipped into not doing anything that could possibly aggravate a customer.

Because God forbid that customer whine to corporate, and then they have to shovel out all kindsa freebies just so that immature twit of a father will keep giving them his business.

[Gawdzillers]

Maybe it's a Slingblade relationship.

[Namrepus221]

I have the motto that if they hit you first, anything you do afterwards is self defense.

It doesn't matter if it's a foam sword or a closed fist. You strike me first, you better bet that it's a shot that knocks me the hell out.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

I bet that was because the manager has been "neutered" and whipped into not doing anything that could possibly aggravate a customer.

My manager and the store manager are both neutered.

My manager can bitch at a customer, but he or she has to have been screaming in her ear for 15 minutes. Anything else is rewarded with a smile and an akward giggle.

Believe you me I didn't giggle when I got sworded in the butt. Smacked the smile right offa his face I did.

I think I should note mama was not there, probably blissfully unaware of her men's store antics while she's preparing supper.

[aurelemsrealm]

That's just ridiculous. I would definitely not be in the mood to tolerate such antics if I was working or grocery shopping. Management should have stepped up and told these two clowns to knock if off or go elsewhere. They can bet I definitely would have said something to them if they were causing such a commotion. As an employee or a customer, I would have felt within my rights to insist they stop the stupidity.

[Amethyst Hunter]

That guy would've been dead before he wound up for the second swing, if it had been me there. The store would've had to sponge him - or what was left of him - off the floor.