I have been trying to post all day but Blogger.com apparently has better things to do then let me access my blog. I see how it is!
Anyway, for my lunch break I did what I usually do and went shopping. This time my shopping destination was TJ Maxx, where they have discounted pashmina type scarfs in pastel colors (which I love). So, it is the middle of the day, and I realize that there will most likely be stay-at-home-mom types milling around with their young children accompanying them. I accept this as my cross to bear as a noon-time shopper.
What I cannot, should not, and will not accept is unruly children in an adult shopping environment.
There was one child that I noticed as soon as I entered the accessories department. I noticed him, because his mother had given him a plastic flute/recorder to occupy himself with so he was making a very high pitched screeching sound with it. I don’t know WHY this woman thought this was appropriate but she was wearing tapered jeans so she may not have been all there. I gave him a dirty look, and attempted to ignore him. Soon, of course, he broke the damn thing and by some miracle did not start crying. What he did start doing, however, is start imitating the same noise the flute was making only his version was much louder and much, much screechier. Instead of stifling her child, this woman cooed with her friend over how cute it was.
I was too irritated to continue my scarf search, so instead I headed over to home goods to get a look at the placemats. There, I encountered another young child who made me thankful I have none. This one was picking towels off of the shelves and throwing them on the ground while her mother talked on the cell phone. I was so horrified. If I had done this kind of thing when I was young, Jacqueline would NOT have been having it, let me tell you. I almost wanted this child to start messing with the placemats I was looking at, so that I could mention to the mother something about how bratty she was (this kind of thing can’t just be brought up apropos of nothing, you know). But unfortunately she stuck with ruining the dish towels. Too bad.
I know that the fact that I don’t like children may color my dealings with them. Maybe another person would have thought these things were cute? All I know is I wish someone would invent an adults-only store that specialized in things like pashminas and placemats instead of nipple rings and dildos.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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I have often wondered if mothers of little hell raising children are on drugs. I mean some of them would have to be to be able to ignore the death stares that they are getting from the general public. I get the feeling some stores wish they could ban kids. I was out buying a when I saw a little boy running around screaming with stuff all over his face and hands. He proceeded to bury himself in a dress his mother was trying on, getting things all over it. The saleswoman was mortified. I hope they made her buy it.
i bet they didn't make her buy it!! people with kids get away with murder. if i were thropwing towels around they would kick me out of the store, but a child can do it and her, and her mother don't have to deal with any concequences!
I was at TJ's the other night and encountered my own terrors. I was in the size 8 shoe aisle, when I hear giggling in the size 9 aisle. The giggling was then accompanied by rustling and then a sound I can only describe as a waterfall of shoes. The 2 "little assholes" (I call some kids assholes. So what.) then ran off in a giggling frenzy. I turned the corner to see the 2 bottom rows completely empty and a huge messy pile of shoes on the floor. Tony was there to witness it and was so mad, he went to find their parents. Turns out the mom was being kicked out by a manager of the store for swearing at the cashier. She walked out screaming, "It's my mouth, I can say any-fucking-thing I want!" haha...
-Sasky
http://www.livejournal.com/~saskypants
i don't like kids to begin with, but i suppose if they're at least well behaved i can be made to deal with them. it's appalling some of the things parents let their kids get away with in public these days. when we were little kids, if my brother or i so much as started crying in the mall, my mom would take us right home.
ugh. kids. *shudder*
I have been trying to post for some time, but blogger won't let me. I am having issues with it too - it sucks.
Anyway, I love children so much, but completely agree that parents need to keep their kid in check - especially in public, but even in private. I have written a few rants about it on my blog and I cannot believe the things kids get away with.
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