in preparation for the coming holidays...

[lavandarlizard2]

HOWLER MONKEYS!!!!! >O_O<;;; *aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!*

LEAVE YOUR DAMN HOWLER MONKEYS AT HOME WITH GRANDMA OR A FRIENDLY WOLVERINE WHEN YOU GO SHOPPING!!!! ~O_O~

If I have to endure another shift of screaming, howling, yowling, begging, whining, tantrumming children, I will start the disembowelments early. ~>.<~

Mother-damn-fucking-shit. Doesn't ANYONE discipline their howlers these days?!

*DAMN* people!



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*crawls under bed clutching plush frog*

Comments

[amymizuno.livejournal.com]

*pets the dragon*

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Three sets of screaming, bouncing, howling monsters..... back to back to back... And not one word from mommy... O.O *crawls back under bed with bottle of tequila*

[wickedgameff.livejournal.com]

I try and try to make my little devil spawn behave, but when you have one autistic kid, one ADHD kid and no one to watch them sometimes I have to endure. Believe me...people like me don't inflict our kids on you just for shits and giggles...some of us really have no choice.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon, I can tell the difference between a kid who can't help it and one who's just out of control. My son is autistic and he was a whirlwind when he was small. He was fascinated very early with maps and I was able to distract him most of the time with a pocket map. He did have his moments, though. >_>

My roommmate is ADHD, and he's STILL all over the place, even as an adult. O.o

The ones who drive me nuts are the kids who clearly are just out of control and mommie is either self-medicated or situationally deaf. One of yesterday's howler's was trying to drag my scanner off the counter, and mommie said not one word. ~>.<~ Fortunately, a Heero-glare does work on some of them.

[wickedgameff.livejournal.com]

I know those ones! The ones who are sitting there yakking on their cell phone while ignoring you and their kids as they wreak havoc.

I just get a lot of looks (I'm sure you've gotten them before too) where people obviously think you can't handle your children in a public place but the truth is that your children just can't help the way they are. Trying to take my kids anywhere is a pain in the ass, but sometimes I have to take them and then I have to deal with the people who look at me sideways or glare at me....

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I used to get rude remarks from people who objected to me using a leash on my kid, but hey, I value my kid more than a dog and I leashed my dog! O.O I always knew where the hell both of them were, which is more than can be said for some parents. >.<

...like the mommie and daddy strolling down the mall with the toddler struggling to keep up 30 feet back. They'd be weeping on TV in a heartbeat if someone actually snatched the kid, but right now? Too busy playing slap and tickle and yammering about... whatever. >_>

[seffknit.livejournal.com]

I got rude remarks about using a leash on my youngest, the best was when some lady remarked that I had a child with me not a dog, and youngest looked right at her and barked! My older two were laughing so hard, lady just looked really put out and walked away. Not even two minutes later someone else came up and asked where I got the leash/harness combo I was using because it was a great idea and kept my kids with me. I still have it here somewhere!

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I had people asking me where they could get one, too. It just beat the hell out of standing in an aisle and screaming for my kid. And even when he outgrew it, he stayed close, so obviously the conditioning worked. ^___^

I haven't seen one in use in a while; I should cruise through the howler department next time I'm in the bull's eye or the bull shit and see if they even sell them. The use of them seems to wax and wane. ^.o My mom had one for me, many many centuries ago.

[merula31]

Not many do anymore, no. And most of them see nothing wrong with their kids behavior. They're 'just being kids'.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

And they're 'just expressing themselves'. And illusionary-god forbid you interfere with their self-expression - it might give them a complex! O.O

The hippies of my generation, who raised the current crop of parents, have a lot to answer for.... >.

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Especially this time of year when things are so crowded. It really is amazing what some parents will let their kids get away with in public. I've seen kids in the stores running around, climbing on things and playing with stuff like they own it... without a parent even in sight! O.O When my kid was that age, you can damn bet she was within line of sight any time we went out. *pets the grumpy dragon*

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Oh, hell YES! That's why I had a harness and a leash on mine until he was five! I don't want to buy something that's been molested by someone else's kid; why would anyone else want to buy something that's been molested by MY kid?!

One of the other clerks caught a kid about three years old trying to climb one of the tall stock ladders; took her twenty minutes to find the kid's mother. Did she get a thank you for returning the little monster? Of course not. And as soon as the kid touched ground, he was off again. The mother didn't even flinch. How the fuck can you shop not knowing where your toddler is?! O.O

*bangs head on register*

[duohiro.livejournal.com]

And of course who is to blame if something were to actually happen to the kid. Not the parent, oh no. It's the store's. We actually had a sixteen year old handicapped boy taken into the bathroom and molested. Wasn't Mom's fault for not keeping an eye on the kid. No it must be the store's fault for not having that light that pops on and announces pervert when the guy walked in the building.

Um, maybe they're hoping something happens so they can sue and make a lot of money off the store. Cause they sure don't seem to want their kids too much.

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I know it's just people being stupid and self-centered, but everytime I see a small child wandering loose, I think of Susan Smith... >.< Bad dragon!

[rogue53.livejournal.com]

God yes... And then there are the ones that think YOU are the babysitter, just 'cause you have nothing better to do then to watch their screaming meemie while they chat and shop. And because I've been in the deli for over a year, I do know a lot of them by face and sometimes by name...

*eats more double fudge brownies before going to work*

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Years ago in another job, we had a regular who used to just dump her kids in my department and wander off wherever. They would tear the place apart... Swinging on the racks, climbing on the shelves, ripping open packages. Finally, the asst manager got pissed enough and she called the APs and reported the kids as abandoned. They were scooped up by the badges and hauled off to the guard shack and their father was called off the flight line to pick them up. ^___^ We never saw *her* again, but he used to come in with the kids and they stuck to him like they'd been super-glued. ^.O Revenge, it is so sweet....

[(Anonymous)]

In the grocery store today the woman behind me was reading a tabloid while her little girl begged for some trinket she saw. Twenty straight minutes of "mommy, mommy can I have this? Can I have this mommy?" The child had one of those whiny, reedy voices that goes in your ear like an icepick! The mother couldn't tear herself away from her paper long enough to even acknowledge the child's existence much less answer her. As I finally fled into the night, I could STILL hear the girl's tireless whine!

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Those voices! O.O They just get higher and higher and more strident! It's like a damn dog whistle. O.o You just want it to STOP! And even if the parent acknowledges them, they don't stop. Right out the door.... "mommiemommiemommiemommie...." >_>