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  • #1

    Here, play with that

    Woman comes up with whiny toddler. She plops him on the counter and tells him to play with the credit card keypad thingy to keep himself occupied.

    HC: head cashier
    MOY: mother of the year

    HC: umm, that's really not a toy.
    MOY: do you have an 18 month old at home?
    HC: no...
    MOY: well, im a child psychologist, so i know that they want what they want
    HC:...does he want to pay $2000 when that piece of equipment gets broke?
    MOY:
    HC: thank you have a good day.
    Kim: She's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

    I'd like to exercise my constitutional right to not give a fuck.
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  • #2
    Nothing like the cold, hard, painful sting of reality to bring somebody out of their fantasy world. If she's really a 'child psychologist', then I have to wonder where she got her degree. A Cracker Jack box?
    A fact of life: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F.....

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    • #3
      I'm not a child psychologist by any stretch of the imagination, but my son was 18 months old once. Somehow, I did not feel the need to let him play with an expensive piece of equipment, and he grew up fine. Relatively speaking, of course.
      Sometimes life is altered.
      Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
      Uneasy with confrontation.
      Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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      • #4
        Quoth B&NGoddess View Post
        MOY: well, im a child psychologist, so i know that they want what they want
        But apparently she doesn't know that they have to learn that they can't always GET what they want. Besides, it didn't sound like he wanted to play with that particular "toy" until she told him to do it....
        I don't go in for ancient wisdom
        I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
        It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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        • #5
          Damn. If there had been a knife rack on the counter, would she have let the child play with THAT?
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          oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
          There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
          3rd shift needs love, too
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          • #6
            She throws the fact that she's a child psychologist in your face, as if that will make you bow and yell I'M NOT WORTHY!

            Pfft, anybody can become a child psychologist -- just depends on if they take an interest in it, and go to school for it.
            I've been here for two years, work harder than most others, and I'm getting paid $1.80 an hour
            less than the 17 year old slacker you hired two months ago. Maybe that's why I'm not chipper at work.

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            • #7
              She's a child psychologist, but apparently not real up on her germs. It's cold and flu season, and she's going to let her 18mo play with something a large number of icky people touch each day? Brilliant, really. I don't even like touching those things more than I have to, given that some people don't even wash their hand at all anymore.
              "In the end I was the mean girl/or somebody's in between girl"~Neko Case

              “You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about.” ~William Stafford

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              • #8
                *snicker* child psychologist my sweet fanny. "They want what they want">.. wtf does that even mean? She probably read it on the back of a cereal box or something.

                First off, don't sit the kid on the counter, he could fall, and it would be dear old "child psychologist" mommy's fault. Second, you don't give a toddler an expensive piece of electronic equipment to play with, especially if it has wires coming out of it. (and EWW something that THAT MANY people touch??? Gross!) As anyone who's ever been in proximity to a toddler knows, EVERYTHING goes in the mouth. Blech. (both for whoever has to touch the pinpad afterwards and for the kid getting everybody's germs).

                Apparently "Common sense 101" wasn't a prerequisite for her degree.
                GK/Kara/Jester fangirl.

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                • #9
                  "They want what they want">..
                  Well, when it comes down to it, doesn't everybody?

                  I want what I want, too. Like, I want my own place and a puppy and a new car and a job I love that pays a million bucks a year...



                  I don't have any of these things...
                  I don't go in for ancient wisdom
                  I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
                  It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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                  • #10
                    "Do you have an 18-month-old at home?"

                    Oh, wait, I'm sorry, I forgot to bow down at the holy altar of Mommy.

                    My response? "No, which makes it all the more sad that I'm obviously better at being a parent than you."
                    "Maybe the problem just went away...maybe it was the magical sniper fairy that comes and gives silenced hollow point rounds to people who don't eat their vegetables."

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                    • #11
                      child psychologist = has read the back of every child rearing book while in line at the bookstore, then dumped the book on the closest display before checking out.

                      yep, that's qualified, if you ask me.

                      i didn't allow my son to play with 'what he wants when he wants' and he's fine, but maybe that's because i understand the concept of 'if it's not yours, you don't touch it.'
                      Last edited by chainedbarista; 02-20-2007, 03:22 AM.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth tollbaby View Post

                        Apparently "Common sense 101" wasn't a prerequisite for her degree.
                        Sorry to say, it's not a prerequisite for ANY degree!
                        I sure wish it were!
                        Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth MystyGlyttyr View Post
                          My response? "No, which makes it all the more sad that I'm obviously better at being a parent than you."


                          Winner!
                          (This sentence to get around the 10-character minimum post)
                          I've been here for two years, work harder than most others, and I'm getting paid $1.80 an hour
                          less than the 17 year old slacker you hired two months ago. Maybe that's why I'm not chipper at work.

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                          • #14
                            yeah, and our clientele is fuckin nasty.

                            i hate when people do that "i have a degree in..." or "i'm a..."

                            like im supposed to care.
                            Kim: She's got one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

                            I'd like to exercise my constitutional right to not give a fuck.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth B&NGoddess View Post
                              MOY: do you have an 18 month old at home?
                              HC: no...
                              MOY: well, im a child psychologist, so i know that they want what they want
                              It's the fact that she's got an 18 month old and you don't. The fact that she's got an 18 month old automatically makes her a child psychologist. [/end sarcasm]

                              So by her concept, every parent should be a "child psychologist" !!!
                              Last edited by karma_gypsy; 02-21-2007, 12:31 AM.
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