some Thursday Banshee...

[lavandarlizard2]

...and a bit of... 'stuff'. >_> Skip the 'rant' if you have perfect children...



I am a parent, but my son is an adult now, so I'm not up on the latest trends in parenting. What the fuck is with people letting their kids run absolutely rampant in stores, malls, etc? Has the word "NO!" become obsolete? Seriously, is 'feral' the new 'civilized'? O_O

I spent a few minutes standing in a register line this morning while a couple of 3-4 year-olds screamed their fucking heads off and utterly trashed the impulse-buy pegs and the candy rack. And mommy-dumbass just smiled down at them. Her precious little snowflakes. >_< Do you suppose she'll be 'shocked! shocked, I tell you!' when the little shits grow up to jack cars, knife old people and send stockholders to the poorhouse? ^_O

I just want to take them out and drown them. I hate other people's children. =p And I hate parents who refuse to discipline their damn kids.









“Oh yeah. You don’t suppose this is some kiddy lesson in vampire herding, do you? To get me the vampire merit badge without any effort? Because if he’s being all over-protective again…”

Inazuma blinked at me. “You know, sometimes you make even less sense than the Humans.” I stuck my tongue out at him. “Ah, Duo! You are the most do-it-yourself creature I’ve ever met!” He sprawled back against the loveseat. “You are so determined to be competent all on your own!”

“Shouldn’t I be? Don’t you get annoyed when the others follow you around like you’re made of spun sugar?” He blinked at me. Again.

“Um… At the risk of a volcanic event… they’ve never micromanaged me the way they do you.”

“WHAT?!” And here I was, cutting the rest of the office a break because I was still “the new kid”. So they *were* treating me differently! Fucking hell! I went from thoughtfully annoyed to furious in a microsecond.

“Sap damn it! I *knew* there was more to this!” I bounced out of my chair, yarn and hooks going everywhere, and began to pace. “I’m not helpless!” I raged. “I don’t need a damn babysitter or ‘special’ situations designed just for me, dammit!”

I said a lot more than that, but memory fails me. I just know I came up for air and a breath of sanity when I realized that Zuma was cautiously waving a white flag and looking like he might be porting out of the “Banshee zone” at any moment.

“What?” I grumbled. Certainly wasn’t his fault that everyone was over-pampering me.

“Um… Not to change the subject… since I really did think that you’d already realized how careful they are of you… but someone is at your door.”

I blinked at him. Then I heard the tentative ‘tap-tap-tap’ing on my hall door. Oh, fucking double-dandy; someone outside with a front row seat to my latest meltdown. Fantastic. I arranged my expression into something marginally pleasant, and opened the door.

“Hi Duo. My minder had to check in, but it’s boring waiting for her, so I thought I’d come and say hello.”

Farquahar.

Behind me, Zuma hissed, “Demon!” and welded himself to my elbow in full Elfish protective mode.

Ah shit…

Comments

[yanagi-wa.livejournal.com]

I hate other peoples kids too. A friend of mine has two little terrors who won't mind her. They mind me, though. They know that I'll put them in a corner if they don't. Too many people are afraid that 'they won't like me' or 'childrens services will take them'.

1) Children aren't supposed to like their parents, they're supposed to mind them.

2) Childrens Services [or whatever it's called in your area] doesn't want your brat. If you're not abusing them you're safe, if you are, you're probably safe anyway.

Fic: Another Banshee meltdown? Oh, my. *g* Great bit.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes* I am so tired of hearing parents proclaim that they are 'best friends' with their kids. *sigh* Kids don't need to be 'friends' with the people who spawned them; they need to be educated, disciplined and civilized by those people. Let the little monsters find their own friends at school or whatever. >_>

Duo's got a real thing about independence and his friends and coworkers just keep stepping all over that independence. ^____^ For the best of reasons, of course, but still...

[pellsfan.livejournal.com]

As far as the kids from hell are concerned, all I can say is... here, here! I agree with every word you've said. I grew up in a time and place where discipline and manners were the FIRST thing a child learned. I still say please and thank you for everything. Sometimes I feel so archaic!

Loved Duo's banshee meltdown. He's adorable. And of all times for Farquahar to show up! Zuma's gonna git'm for sure! Loving it.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Question, since we probably share a generation... Did you call adults by their first names when you were a kid? I had the worst time when my kid hit middle school, getting across to the adults that no; it was not 'okay' for him to be calling the teachers, counselors and even the damn principal by their first names. >_< I worked damn hard on his manners; I expect him to use them. O.o

Just what Duo needs; another crisis. ^____^ Not a good day to be pissing off the Elf.

[pellsfan.livejournal.com]

Lordy no!

Adults were always, Miss, Mrs or Mr. And on the rare occasion that I was given permission to call one of them by a first name, it was always prefaced by 'Aunt' or 'Uncle'. Simply as another sign of respect.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I can remember feeling so 'grown-up' when one of my dad's friends said I could call him Sergeant Bill. O_O It was such a step up from 'Mr'. ^____^

[rochan01.livejournal.com]

oh my, Duo has a meltdown about overprotective coworkers and the very first thing the coworker witness does is... try to protect him! LOL!

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Well, sure! How else would he be able to generate a nuclear blush? ^___~

[rogue53.livejournal.com]

Working where I do, you see all sorts of truly stupid people with their truly stupid children (well, maybe they're children... one wonders), and I am afraid that unless people get their heads out of their ***, that it will definitely get worse. Heaven forbid that anyone say boo to the little treasures.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I used to work at Target. Twice, I encountered the 'special little snowflake' from hell. The kid screamed like a damn air-raid siren (you could literally hear him all over the freaking store and into the back rooms), threw himself on the floor, kicking and banging his head and his mother was just a damn doormat. >_< What ever he wanted, he got. The weird thing was, he had an older brother who was just as well-behaved as the tiny terror wasn't. O.o I don't even like to think about the teenagers who order their parents around like servants. My blood pressure is bad enough as it is. >_>

[rogue53.livejournal.com]

I so agree!

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

And they know absolutely no damn fear! My own 'monster' was sitting on the couch yesterday and looked up to see some unknown brat had come clear up on our front porch and was standing there looking in our front door. Nose pressed to the screen and everything. When Off-spring moved to get up, the kid just took off. Never wanted anything, just being nosy. When I was growing up you did NOT go on to somebody else's property just for the hell of it! You waited to be invited. ~_~

Poor Farq! So misunderstood! ^o^

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Crap. =p We had window-peeping kids when we lived on base. Damn things would stand on top of the *flowers* to try to see in the windows! I finally had to call the MPs. >.< You don't know if they're just being nosy or if they're budding perverts. It's creepy.

Reminds me... I had a peeper a few months ago. My window is right next to the water heater room (=p for that) so there's a little sidewalk leading to it. Cat is in the window; I'm on the comp. Cat suddenly launches across the room; I look up. Kid about eight years old is staring in the window. I slid around the edge of the room and popped up right in front of him and went "BOO!" Kid backed up and fell over in the ivy. Got up and ran. *bah!* Kids. >_>


Farq tries, but he always misses the mark by just *that* much. ^____^

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Bwhahahahahahahaaa! I hope the little shit wet himself! ^o^

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

They haven't been back, but since I live in an apartment, people come and go regularly. ^___^ Heh. If I had a house, I'd be out waving my cane and yelling 'damn kids get off my lawn!' Except that I'd probably not have a lawn, and the landscaping would be heavily armed. ^___~ Coastal desert, ya know. ^.^

[lizard-little.livejournal.com]

I slid around the edge of the room and popped up right in front of him and went "BOO!" Kid backed up and fell over in the ivy. Got up and ran. *bah!* Kids. >_>

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! xD

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

The ivy is the home of all sorts of crawlie things, too. ^____^

[duohiro.livejournal.com]

And what's worse is when they grow up. My store is right down the road from a college and those brats act worse than little kids. It's terrible how they can be allowed out in public acting like five year olds when they are "old enough" to be in college.

When I was growing up you misbehaved you got your butt beat. Everyone is so damn afraid to actually discipline their kids it pathetic. And all this teaching them about call 911 and crap. It makes the kids think they are the ones in control. Like the saying goes, this is a dictatorship, not a democracy. My one younger sister found out that children under 18 have no rights whatsoever. But they sure think they do.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I worked (briefly) with a sixteen-year old who thought nothing of browbeating her mother over the phone with orders, demands and abuse that would have gotten her slapped into next week from me. >.< And mommy... grovelled. That's the only description of it. Pathetic. And maddening. =_=

[merula31]

Oh, don't even get me started on kids this time of year... Just don't. *sigh*

*grin* Poor Zuma, that's a friend!! Not foe!

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

*hugs* It's all the plant hormones in the air. At least you're almost done with them. ^__^

I think Zuma still has nightmares of Farq shooting Wufei. And Elves aren't crazy about demons in general. ^___^

[faeriedustings.livejournal.com]

yeah, there's a client that brings their two kids in whenever they have an appointment. the one is just as sweet as can be, the other is a terror. i can't do anything job related because he's always shouting and demanding stuff from me (he literally demanded i give him a dollar once)and just being plain loud, right at my work station so i can't get any telemarketing done. When i tell him i'm working and can't help him right now, he goes away for a bit and comes back five minutes later, shouting at me from a foot away. it's birth control, plain and simple. reminding me why I DON'T want kids (maybe eventually but they will definitely be better behaved).

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Kid sounds like a full medical and neurological workup wouldn't be a bad thing. >.< Or a smack on the butt.

I get heartily sick of people who think stuff like that is 'cute'. What's 'cute' at three is sociopathic at 20. And then the parents blame 'society'.

Whoa. Almost got started on another rant there. O.o

^___^

[lizard-little.livejournal.com]

What's 'cute' at three is sociopathic at 20. And then the parents blame 'society'.

WORD

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. O_o

Rant

[lizard-little.livejournal.com]

INOERITE??

I often wonder about that - I see it's not just an Italian thing...

*sigh*

Some of my relatives seem similarly unable to discipline their kids... even in Church!

Re: Rant

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

And people tried to shame me for teaching him to be civilized. *rolls eyes* It's paid off, though. ^____^