Kids in shops. Annoying kids in shops.

[Rinky vs.4.0]

Note to the idiot mother with the two eight or nine year-old boy sprogs in private school unforms in Somerfield today:

The supermarket is a place for buying food, not for exercising your mop-headed brats. Nor is it a place where they should be practicing their dance manouvres and playing the 'twirl until I fall over' game or otherwise causing a nuisance in a crowded place with narrow aisles at 5pm. No, your kids are not 'cute'. They are not 'high-spirited'. They are obnoxious little shits who nearly knocked down several old people with their stupidity and got up everyone else's noses in the process. Iif you can't manage to control them in a public place, they need to be put on a leash or left at home while you stand all bovine-like at the ciggie counter, totally ignoring their antics.

[Boomer #8]

At the store where I work (it's in a mall), just outside there's this playground thing for kids. I don't mind now really, because it keeps them out of the shops when their mums come in to shop. What are kids going to do with curtains? Well, they can get a bit carried away in there and seems like they're destroying the place. But it's an improvement, because it used to be two rides where you put a coin and it starts moving with an annyoing music; and it was extremely popular with the kids, and sometime sit could go like two hours non stop; and that made me want to buy a bloody shotgun.

[Amy!]

I totally snapped at a woman the other day in a self-checkout line at the grocery store. I love the self-checkout, it eliminates cashiers that like idle chitchat and generally it's a much faster way to get out of the store. Except when ridiculous granola hippy moms decide to back things up by using it as a homeschooling device when there are 50 hot tired people in line that are trying to get home with ingredients for supper. Two of the machines were being used by fuckwits that needed help from the attendant and the other was being appropriately used by a woman with a large order and normal kids.

One of the offending kids was preoccupied with playing with the elastic band on his underpants and the other was asking the most inane questions ever just for attention. "Mommy do you like yellow bananas?" "Mommy are those bags plastic?" and she would never actually answer him but kept trying to distract him by waiting for the machine to talk and asking him if it was a robot like on the movie he watched.

It didn't take long before I pointedly asked if they were aware of the line up forming behind them and then asked her to please keep her child from indecently exposing himself. She gave me a dirty look then asked the kid to please stop fidgeting because some people are uncomfortable with the human body and to please help her finish because some people have anger problems.

And she's lucky I held my anger problem in check and didn't stuff a cucumber up her nose.

[Kari]

It didn't take long before I pointedly asked if they were aware of the line up forming behind them and then asked her to please keep her child from indecently exposing himself. She gave me a dirty look then asked the kid to please stop fidgeting because some people are uncomfortable with the human body and to please help her finish because some people have anger problems.

And she's lucky I held my anger problem in check and didn't stuff a cucumber up her nose.

OMG are you serious????

I'd have hit the bitch.

In other annoying child news...I was having a cigarette the other day outside, and there was a group of tourists and their little boy, who had Down's Syndrome. Now, for some reason, little boy with Down's Syndrome spots me and stares at me. I ignore this. Suddenly, mom and dad are egging him on like "Go ahead! Go ahead!"

The kid COMES OVER TO ME and says, "Smoking is bad for you!" and then is all proud of himself. He smiles and Mom and Dad start fucking CLAPPING. Now, I am all for encouraging good health habits in your children, but teaching this kid to approach total strangers on the street and lecture them is not the way to go. I mean, was I supposed to comply because the kid is disabled? Am I supposed to encourage him? What? I just sort of smiled at him, and he walked away looking all disheartened, and his parents glared at me. Jesus, at least I didn't tell the kid to piss off! Some people in NYC would have!

[Rinky vs.4.0]

I mean, was I supposed to comply because the kid is disabled? Am I supposed to encourage him? What?

You had two options as far as I am concerned:

a)Say, "Oh my GOD, I know!" and then put the cigarette out on his face.
b)Send him back to his parents with a note saying, "Smoking MAY be bad for me, but stupid people having sex causes babies with funny faces and low IQs."

I'd go with the second option myself. Yes, it would hurt their feelings, but really, it's better than a punch in the face which is what they're going to get if they keep using a disabled child in this fashion.

Seriously, what the fuck? God, I have never smoked in my life but give me the company of laid-back smokers over smug, moronic safety nazis any day of the damn week!

[Rinky vs.4.0]

She gave me a dirty look then asked the kid to please stop fidgeting because some people are uncomfortable with the human body and to please help her finish because some people have anger problems.



I'd bet she'd be 'uncomfortable with the human body' if some man was fiddling with his dick in front if her precious babies. Or if someone was taking an unashamed pleasure in staring at precious' nuts and arse as her exposed them to the public at large.

As for 'anger problems'. Arghhhhhhhhh. Have you ever noticed how that phrase is only used by people whose behaviour is basically designed to piss people off? I had this dumb fucking new-age hippy wreck of a manager once who would create utter fucking disasters, on a daily basis, through her own TOTAL incompetence and inabaility to organise a piss-up ina brewery, who would wheel that phrase out every time one of the minions or clients expressed pissed-offness with being fucked around. I didn't have an anger problem when I wasn't working for her - I did every time I had to take the fucking fall for HER messes. GAH.

[hollerskates]

i'm so happy about the girls in the office where i work now. a client mentioned she would be bringing her child in with her to an appointment, and every single co-worker groaned. i was like, "that's right, ladies." i'm glad to not be alone in my "children in inappropriate places" hating.

[nirak]

In other annoying child news...I was having a cigarette the other day outside, and there was a group of tourists and their little boy, who had Down's Syndrome. Now, for some reason, little boy with Down's Syndrome spots me and stares at me. I ignore this. Suddenly, mom and dad are egging him on like "Go ahead! Go ahead!"

The kid COMES OVER TO ME and says, "Smoking is bad for you!" and then is all proud of himself. He smiles and Mom and Dad start fucking CLAPPING. Now, I am all for encouraging good health habits in your children, but teaching this kid to approach total strangers on the street and lecture them is not the way to go. I mean, was I supposed to comply because the kid is disabled? Am I supposed to encourage him? What? I just sort of smiled at him, and he walked away looking all disheartened, and his parents glared at me. Jesus, at least I didn't tell the kid to piss off! Some people in NYC would have!

I was walking down the street having a cig one time (used to be my favorite activity, my nightly walk/smokes... god, I miss that.) and some kid in a car driving by HUNG OUT THE WINDOW and yelled "smoking is bad for you!!!"

if I could have thrown the cigarette at him I would have.

I bet the odds are better for dying by hanging out the window than smoking.

I love it that people encourage their kids to feel like they are the moral bastion and can tell everyone what they should do with their bodies. This is how republicans are made.

[nirak]

b)Send him back to his parents with a note saying, "Smoking MAY be bad for me, but stupid people having sex causes babies with funny faces and low IQs."

I LOVE this.

[Froglover]

Why don't some parents bother to teach their children that the supermarkets' bulk food bins containing candy, fruit etc are not feeding troughs to graze from and shove snotty little hands into repeatedly?

It must be because so many adults do it too. :s


Don't get me started on buffets. Children are supposed to be supervised around the food displays. One time I witnessed a man standing with his children at the dessert toppings bar, which provided spoons with the containers of candies, marshmallows etc. He was proudly watching as they shoved their fingers into the various bins and decorated their ice cream.

[Kari]

You had two options as far as I am concerned:

a)Say, "Oh my GOD, I know!" and then put the cigarette out on his face.
b)Send him back to his parents with a note saying, "Smoking MAY be bad for me, but stupid people having sex causes babies with funny faces and low IQs."

I'd go with the second option myself. Yes, it would hurt their feelings, but really, it's better than a punch in the face which is what they're going to get if they keep using a disabled child in this fashion.

Seriously, what the fuck? God, I have never smoked in my life but give me the company of laid-back smokers over smug, moronic safety nazis any day of the damn week!

;l

I just didn't have the time nor energy to bother with it. But its ridiculous. What, you want me to quit smoking so you send a RETARDED KID over so I can't say anything back? Ugh. I felt bad for him, actually. I mean, Jesus Christ. Any other non-retarded kid his age would never have dreamed of doing that. Besides- it's NOT a good idea to encourage your kids to talk to strangers, never mind OMGNYC strangers.

[Jezebelle]

^ what that child and more importantly - his parents - did was incredibly rude. The parents were exploiting his disability because what rational minded person would respond back to a child with Down's Syndrome?

And only because I feel the need to say it (;)) dumb people don't make children with Down's Syndrome, chromosomal abnormalities do :)

[jenniferblaufrau]

I think about the changes that have occurred over the last 20 years that have led to this kids-gone-wild environment in so many public places. It just didn't happen when I was little. If you caused a scene in public, you were in deep shit. Period. Hence, you didn't do it. I'm a little skeptical of the touchy-feely no-stern-authority-figures model that seems to be so prevalent today.

If it's that there are more single mothers these days, I sympathize. I'm sure proper disciplining is much more difficult with only one person and no father. I had a single mom friend in Germany, and though her daughter was usually well behaved, she had a few screaming incidents. It was very clear that this little girl was really upset about not having a dad around. She would get into this trance, staring longingly at kids with their dads. So I can see how that would lead to heartache and acting out.

[Kari]

I think about the changes that have occurred over the last 20 years that have led to this kids-gone-wild environment in so many public places. It just didn't happen when I was little. If you caused a scene in public, you were in deep shit. Period. Hence, you didn't do it. I'm a little skeptical of the touchy-feely no-stern-authority-figures model that seems to be so prevalent today.
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Yeah. When I was little, making a scene in public was just not even a possibility, and if you did it, there was serious punishment. My parents seldom hit me, but as far as loss of privileges, etc, they meant business. Serious, serious business. I knew better than to have a temper tantrum at a store or act up in restaurants. I would act up at home all the time, but once we left the house, I didn't even THINK about it.

[Rinky vs.4.0]

And only because I feel the need to say it (;)) dumb people don't make children with Down's Syndrome, chromosomal abnormalities do :)

Yes, I know. Trisomy 21 etc etc. I was being facetious, as usual.

[Fox in Socks]

i HATE the incessant twirls/ballet and cheerleading practice at the grocers. move the FUCK out of the way.

i cannot even believe the kid "smoking is bad for you". i mean, yeah, SO. send you kid over and give him props why? my response wouldve been "what the fuck ever" or rinkys you choose.

bleh.

[RedHead]

You should have responded "so is talking to strangers."

I mean, honestly, would the parents have ever thought to come up and say that to you themselves? They don't have to have their kid go up to other people to "warn" them of the evils of smoking in order to teach him that smoking is bad for you. I swear, they probably don't even realize how rude it was. You should have just walked over to them and quietly said, "I don't appreciate your judgmental commentary on what I choose to do with my life. Thank you." A lot of times I find that people are stupid and don't realize the consequences of their self-righteous actions...sometimes a quiet, calm comeback is all they need to realize they were out of line.

[Red Ribboned Cub]

Nor is the supermarket a place for your three children to go zipping up and down the aisles, weaving rapidly, closely and dangerously around other patrons, and NOT stopping at the end of said aisles on these: http://www.littlebruiser.com.au/files/thumbnails/t_16281.jpg

Yes, I actually experienced this last night. Just great. :r

[Sulley]

Oh don't even get me started.

I hate parents who basically just walk away from their kids when they are shopping. And of course the little buggers run around like crazy, destroy displays, etc. I swear to God, if I were an employee at a store, and I saw kids were messing up the merchandise, I'd go apeshit. In fact, whenever I walk into a department store that looks like a bomb went off in it due to kids and adults, I always think to myself "these employees should really carry guns to instill fear in people."
I love when the parents finally realize their child isn't with them. Then starts the great yelling for the kid to come back. And then the kid gets a lecture for not staying by his mom's side, meaning bitch didn't even notice he was misssing for 15minutes.He could've been kidnapped him in that time. Assholes.
I remember one time my mother went to K-Mart for something real quick, and she went into one of the aisles and found a group of kids who had broke a game open and were just sitting there playing it right there on the floor. Then there are the kids who think it's cute to play hide and seek in the sales racks. And god forbid they get hurt on something. Mom and dad will sue, because, don't you know, stores should make their sales racks structurally strong enough for kids to play hide and seek.

I fucking hate everybody.

[Steve SFM]

And then, there's the other extreme: parents who hit or verbally abuse their children in stores. It strikes me as something people who hate their lives do to take their misery out on their children (directly) and the other people in the store (indirectly). My attitude is that I did not come to the store to witness their pathetic dysfunction.

And Kari, I would have had a very difficult time not going off on those parents for exploiting their child, because that's what they were doing. No question about it. And, yes, potentially endangering him by encouraging him to confront strangers.

I mean, I know you're sweet-faced and all, but you COULD have been a psycho. ;)

Who's with me on the idea of adult-only supermarkets? :D

Steve the Sweet Fat Man

[whirlygirl]

Who's with me on the idea of adult-only supermarkets? :D


Definitely me.

[Jezebelle]

Who's with me on the idea of adult-only supermarkets? :D

Steve the Sweet Fat Man

Thats friggin brilliant! Can we make them cell phone free, too????

[jeth]

Now now, some of use our cellphones in the supermarket for good, not evil.

Like those friends who you can't get a word in edgewise with but who like to talk about their personal drama for hours - I usually call them when I get to the store so all I have to do is say "Uh huh" and "Oh, that's terrible" for an hour while I push my cart around and get what I need. It's the best multi-tasking idea I ever had!

[Jezebelle]

(you should know that other people may be incredibly annoyed by you ;) )

I can see the occasional phone call of "honey - do we need butter?" but, for me, the drama laced phone calls are reserved for the drive home for work :)

[jeth]

Why should people be annoyed with me? They don't hear a peep out of me except for "uh uh" or whatever non-commital verbal response I'm giving my caller to indicate that yes, I am listening. Otherwise it's one hour of me, being silent, pushing my cart around.

On the other hand, I also don't carry on major conversations while driving. I prefer to wait until I'm either home or out of the vehicle to carry on talking for more than two or three minutes. I prefer to concentrate on my driving and I can't do that very well with a phone glued to my ear.

[Jezebelle]

Why should people be annoyed with me? They don't hear a peep out of me except for "uh uh" or whatever non-commital verbal response I'm giving my caller to indicate that yes, I am listening. Otherwise it's one hour of me, being silent, pushing my cart around.



Its not always the talking, its the total lack of awareness at your surroundings or say me... behind you, desperately trying to get by you so i can keep shopping.

[Charles:]

That's what I have a problem with. Whenever I get a call in line I make sure to pay attention to what the cashier is doing and saying to me. I hate when people can't seem to function when they're on the phone.

[Kari]

And Kari, I would have had a very difficult time not going off on those parents for exploiting their child, because that's what they were doing. No question about it. And, yes, potentially endangering him by encouraging him to confront strangers.

I mean, I know you're sweet-faced and all, but you COULD have been a psycho. ;)



I didn't want to upset the retarded kid. :( I would have felt badly. But yeah, in hindsight, I should have called those assholes out for the exploitative health nazis they are. Ugh.

[Paul]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/05/earlyshow/living/main1095665.shtml

[Jezebelle]

^ ;l

That'll make a childfree community!

[Fox in Socks]

i get more annoyed with people driving and chatting on their phones not paying attention than trying to get at the bread at the grocery store and having someone chatting being in the way. also, id surmise grocery store distraction is safer than driver distraction. [soap]

[jeth]

I'm totally aware of my surroundings when I'm on the phone. I don't get in anyone's way. I guess maybe you're under the impression that everyone who talks on the phone in the supermarket is just puttering along, blocking aisles and talking loudly, but not all of us are. Not to mention that I've got my shopping pattern down - I know exactly what I want and where to find it. I don't wander around or block aisles or stare at displays for ages comparing the price difference between two items before making my decision.

So what if I'm on my cellphone quietly listening while zipping around throwing stuff into my cart? I guarantee you that I'm operating more efficiently than most of the people in there and no, I'm not getting in anyone's way while I do it.

And I always get off the phone before I get to the registers. I think there is nothing ruder than having your cellphone to your ear when you're supposed to be communicating with the person waiting on you. Of course on the flip side of that I think that cashiers who ignore customers and carry on conversations with other people while ringing up the goods are rude too, but that's just me.

[Meesh]

when my son was younger i would throw him in the grocery cart and wheel him around the store (up until about the age of 8-9) because i didn't want him to be one of those spastic brats screaming, "MOM! MOM! MOM! MOM! LOOK AT MEEE! LOOK AT WHAT I CAN DO!!!! MOM! MOM! MOM! *stabs* mine used to always want to push a cart. after he banged into the back of my legs with the damned thing because he wasn't paying attention, i started putting him in the cart and just had him help me get stuff by reading off of the list for me.

after the lovely invention of the gameboy, shopping has become a breeze because he just follows me silently with gameboy in hand. he might ask to go find his favorite cereal or cookies, but he doesn't act like a spaz anymore.

it's weird, i am a parent, but i really hate kids. i kind of like mine because i have him trained, but for the most part i find other people's kids extremely annoying.

[Froglover]

And I always get off the phone before I get to the registers. I think there is nothing ruder than having your cellphone to your ear when you're supposed to be communicating with the person waiting on you. Of course on the flip side of that I think that cashiers who ignore customers and carry on conversations with other people while ringing up the goods are rude too, but that's just me.

It is very rude. I see so many customers on their cellphones at the registers in stores or foodcourts etc. Is it so hard to put the caller on hold for a moment or tell them you will call them back shortly?

Speaking of cashiers, in some stores I have had assistants carry on a conversation with a co-worker the WHOLE time they are serving me, not acknowledging me once except to take the money and give me my purchase. I have also had assistants eating and drinking while they serve me, and yes, talking on their cellphone (personal call, not work-related) while they serve me. :s

[haunted]

oh god, I need I tylenol just reading this thread.

kids at Costco = worse than ANY store I have ever been in. it's like a breeding ground for parents who ignore their children and idiotic kids.

I swear, one of these days I'm going to grab a giant bottle of water and fill a super soaker to drench the first loud kid I see.


i get more annoyed with people driving and chatting on their phones not paying attention than trying to get at the bread at the grocery store and having someone chatting being in the way. also, id surmise grocery store distraction is safer than driver distraction. [soap]

I saw proof of this recently. some moron on a cell phone didn't pay attention, turned at a bad time and got hit (from the side) on both the front and back of his car. cellphone was blocking the side where the first car came from :P

[Charles:]

Yesterday...DMV...standing in line to get my damn license reinstated..being circled by two shitheads running and screaming...parents chatting it up 10 feet behind me, not oblivious to their hellions, but ignoring them.

Ugh...I almost "accidentally" tripped them

[Chrissy87]

Kids are not the problem the parents are. If you want to hit someone or trip someone do so to the parents because they are the ones not paying attention to thier children.

I agree kids can get wild but what child does not? Thier is a such thing as too wild and a store is no place to be wild at and thats why parents should kepp thier kids under control but instead they are to buisy looking at stuff while thier kids are off running about.

Not to long ago I was at the mall and this woman had like 5 kids with her and she was looking at clothes in rave girl I guess for one of the little girls with her but that was about all she was paying attention to was the clothes. Here one of the children who looked like he was about 2 had done ran out of the store, one of the people who worked thier actually went up to her and said mam are you aware your little boy just took off and she went chasing after him yet the dumbass left the other 4 kids in the damn store. I guess the idiot assumed the woman who had told her was going to watch after the kids which to me was just plane wrong of her and showed she was very irresponsible because she left her children with a complete stranger.

A good way to get your kids to behave is to buy them something if they behave. When I take my cousins four year old daughter with me to a store I tell her if she behaves she can get something cheap and I have never had a problem with her yet her dad on the other hand never does what I do and everytime he takes her to a store she acts wild.

Parents just need to learn to be more responsible and to nagotiate with thier children, now of course I can see where you can not nagotiate with a child who is like a year old because they do not really understand WTF your talking about but then again children that young should be in a cart but still I see these idiots out here who have them out of carts and they are looking at stuff while the child is behind them which is stupid because it is very easy for someone to snatch a child in just seconds from behind you.

Hundreds of kids go missing each year from stores due to parents not paying attention to them and they have the nerve to sit thier and cry over it yet WTF were you doing when your kid vanished? Is it so hard to hold your childs hand when you are looking at something? You have two arms ,cant you hold your childs hand while you push a cart? Even if you have say 3 kids with you , form a little line where your all holding hands

[Fluffy]

Kids are not the problem the parents are. If you want to hit someone or trip someone do so to the parents because they are the ones not paying attention to thier children

You often see parents with a lack of skills in dealing with their own child that makes a given problem worse, but some kids are insufferable brats whether through nature or nurture. Parents aren't all blameless victims and kids aren't all misunderstood angels.

[jeth]

A good way to get your kids to behave is to buy them something if they behave. When I take my cousins four year old daughter with me to a store I tell her if she behaves she can get something cheap and I have never had a problem with her yet her dad on the other hand never does what I do and everytime he takes her to a store she acts wild.


Ah, yes, the old bribery method.

You don't have to promise the kid a treat for being good. You have to put your foot down and let them know what acceptable and unacceptable behavior is, period. It's called discipline.

[jenniferblaufrau]

In a clothing store today, walking slowly through a very wide aisle. Little kid comes running up behind me, darts around me, runs some more, turns around and runs and smacks right into me, and falls on his butt. His mom gasps, picks him up, says, "It was his fault", but looks at me like I just kicked her baby. :r

[Chrissy87]

Today I was at the high school I use to go to just hanging with some friends and some old teachers and a bad storm was going on and around about 8pm we went to leave and a bunch of teens from night school were in the lobby for a break and the power went off and all of them started screaming like they were being murdered, I just wanted to slap everyone of them because it was just ridiculous how they were acting like they have never been in the dark before.

I was in the lobby for about a half an hour after the power went out and seeing as the power was out they could not continue class so here comes more students from the GED program so we had about 100-200 teens in the lobby and the way they were acting GOOD GOD. Kids were holding onto the medal bars on the front doors with them open and the principle was like why are you guys holding onto those when their is lighting and they all just looked at him like he was an idiot and continued to hold the doors, then this dumbass girl is running out and grabbing onto the flag pool pretending to get electrocuted, the teachers were afraid she was going to end up getting hurt so made her stand with them in till her ride came and then we had kids getting their shoes wet and sliding across the floor and falling purposely as if it was funny when they could of got seriously hurt. Then their was some idiot black boy with his head set on screaming like a freaking idiot saying n*** this and n*** that and I heard a girl behind me say she was about to take his headset and smash it because he was getting on everyone's nerves, I can see ok you want to listen to music but WTF do you have to walk around screaming it?

It was complete madness and their were only like 10 teachers to handle them all and none of them would listen and these were freaking teens, people complain about little kids yet a lot of teenagers are just like kids, some are freaking worse.

[jeth]

^ Your run-on sentence made my head hurt. Please read up on the wonders of a punctuation mark called the period. It's fantastic.

Also, the thread topic is "Kids in shops. Annoying kids in shops." Not "Teenagers in school. Annoying teenagers in school."

[Chrissy87]

^ Your run-on sentence made my head hurt. Please read up on the wonders of a punctuation mark called the period. It's fantastic.

Also, the thread topic is "Kids in shops. Annoying kids in shops." Not "Teenagers in school. Annoying teenagers in school."
Why don't you restrain yourself from posting if you are going to be ignorant.

This is the net I do not give a damn about my punctuation, nobody should. As long as you are speaking to where people can understand you it is fine. I seriously doubt your head is hurting so stop being drama queen.

So what I went kind of off topic, big whoop sue me for it. I was just showing that not only kids are the problem and that the probelms are not just in stores.

This is the net, it is here for fun not to be childish and argue over stupid little things.

I see so many people talk like idiots on here to where you can not understand what they say but I do not say anything to them due to this being the net and people not caring how they spell, when they start being graded then complain.

Also I find it kind of funny how you are picking on me when I have seen a few people on this board who have used poor punctuation

;KI could say a lot worse then I have but I am not due to I am not like that, I am a very nice person who does not go around picking on people or trying to start fights which is what it looks like your trying to do so before hand I am telling you if you start a fight I will ignore it.

[The March Hare]

In the words of Strongbad, "That's not Alli. It's not even LITERATE!"

This is a childfree forum. Don't come in here, being all high and mighty about kids being a lot better than teenagers or how anyone can control a kid through a bribe. You're not going to show us that we can be all happy about kids if we just realize how they "truly" are.

You use poor punctuation, poor spelling, and you're a bint to boot. There's a reason why you're being bitched at for every post you make.

[matt_4013]

This is the net I do not give a damn about my punctuation, nobody should. As long as you are speaking to where people can understand you it is fine.

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This is the net, it is here for fun not to be childish and argue over stupid little things.

Proper spelling, grammar and punctuation are crucial in writing. The entire meaning of a sentence can be changed by the positioning of a comma. Also, run on sentences like you're using are extremely difficult to read, and personally I'm finding it quite hard to understand what you're writing.

Secondly, the net is not 'here for fun'. It's a communication tool. Whether it's used for fun or something serious is up to you, but you need to think about the best way to communicate your ideas to prevent misunderstanding. Well-structured sentences and correct spelling is the best way to do this in a textual medium like a forum. You will find that if you actually write properly and use a spell-checker people will take you far more seriously, and maybe even like you.

Now, back to the topic at hand. Undisciplined kids in shops annoy the piss out of me. I was crouched down looking at some items on the bottom shelf and this kid, probably about 8 or 9, runs up behind me and pulls my hair hard enough that I end up on my ass. He takes off with a girl, who looked about 10, who I assume was his sister, laughing all the while. I got up, looked around, not another adult in sight. So pissed off.

[Steve SFM]

Proper spelling, grammar and punctuation are crucial in writing. The entire meaning of a sentence can be changed by the positioning of a comma. Also, run on sentences like you're using are extremely difficult to read, and personally I'm finding it quite hard to understand what you're writing.

Secondly, the net is not 'here for fun'. It's a communication tool. Whether it's used for fun or something serious is up to you, but you need to think about the best way to communicate your ideas to prevent misunderstanding. Well-structured sentences and correct spelling is the best way to do this in a textual medium like a forum. You will find that if you actually write properly and use a spell-checker people will take you far more seriously, and maybe even like you.

Goddamn, that was hot.

Steve the Sweet Fat Man

[Thom.]

Then their was some idiot black boy with his head set on screaming like a freaking idiot saying n*** this and n*** that and I

Poor grammar is the least of your worries. That I can cerainly agree with.

You need to work on the racism first. :)!

[Boomer #8]

Ah yes. A couple of weeks ago at the small shopping centre the store I work in is - two siblins, a girl and a boy aged about 5 and 4 were crying and asking for their mother. I asked them what's wrong and they told me they couldn't find their mommy, so i immediately thought she may be looking for them, so I took them to every store in the mall. They couldn't see her, then I start asking them where did they last see her and etc. Well, it turns out that the woman left her children at this tiny 'playground' in the mall (it's just outside the store I work in) while she was going to buy shoe or whatever it was. They didn't want to play anymore and wanted to go home, but mum wasn't there.

As this happened I was just starting my shift I told them to stay right there, because I had to talk to my boss. They were crying, and it was really heartaching because I couldn't do anything, as our shopping centre is small, and doen't even have an information desk. Anyway, I told them to stay put, because their mother might comeback looking for them, and that I was just a few metres away.

So, I told my boss the situation, and she was just leaving, so she said that she was going to tell them that if they wanted, they could stay with me in the store, and I was to alert the security guard the next time he passed by. Well, she came back like a minute later and said that the mother came to collect them.

Shame on that woman. I know she probably wanted some peace and quiet shopping, but leaving children so young unsupervised is recless. That is the attitude of many people in this country (Norway), and everybody feels safe, but what if it was some pedophile they came across and not me? That person could have easily led them outside and lured them into wherever without anyone noticing.

[Rinky vs.4.0]

This is the net I do not give a damn about my punctuation, nobody should.

Yes, they should. They really, really should.

Heads-up - the long-accepted @forumz etiquette regarding spelling and punctuation is that we write as well as we can. Netspeak will get you flamed here, as will writing like 'it doesn't matter'.

We actually have a lot of people here from various European countries for whom English is a second or even a third language and for the most part they take PAINS to write in a way that is clear and comprehensible to all. You probably would mistake a lot of them for native speakers of English if you didn't know better. If they can take the effort to communicate as well as they can, so, to my mind, should everyone else.

If you write in a way that's hard on the eyes, and therefore difficult to read (eg. giant paragraphs, no punctuation, poor grammar) people are a)less likely to read what you say and b)more likely to think you CANNOT write well, and from there most people tend to assume you can't think well, either. Writing is all on the internet. We don't have your voice or expressions to go on here - we can only judge what you say by how well you say it.

[Rinky vs.4.0]

Oh, and to return to the topic, there were two unspeakable girl brats in the women's changing rooms at New Look this afternoon. They ran up and down pulling curtains back on cubicles where women were undressing, shrieked, jumped on the sofas provided for customers, and then decided to sing a song at maximum volume. Their mum occasionally aimed a 'be quiet' at them from out of her own cubicle, but did nothing to curb their appalling behaviour otherwise.

The final straw was when one parked herself of a sofa outside my cubicle and I could see her angling herself to stare in at me through the gap on the curtain from the reflection in the mirror. I whipped open the curtain and gave her the 'I can stare too!' mad-glarey face and she sloped off, thank goodness. She was aout nine years old, too - way old enough to know better.

[tully]

binkity boo bibbity blah teenagers suck!

1 - You're 19. You're a teenager. Come back in seven years and we'll talk.

2 - If you don't like teenagers, here's an awesome idea: stay out of a fucking high school. They outnumber adults 20:1. Those motherfuckers are EV.ERY.WHERE!

[Chrissy87]

I think that everyone here needs to stop being so damn ignorant.

So I made a few spelling mistakes that gives you no damn right to go off on me and what a childish thing to go off on. I have seen a few people on here do exactly what I did yet that person who went off on me said nothing to them and then the person said this was about stores but yet right before me someone posted about kids in the DMV, DMV is not a store so why is it the person went off on me and not them? It seems to me like this person is just singling me out, why I do not know but it is wrong of them and ignorant.

As for thom I think you need to go back and read my post again because I was not being racist I was saying what the black kid was saying, I never said I used the N word and never would I because one of my best friends who is like a sister to me is black, please do not sit here and try to make me look like a racist when I am not.

lil raspberry when did I ever act as if kids are a lot better then teenagers? I never said that so here we go with another person claiming I said something when I did not.

I am not trying to show anyone they can be happy with kids, where are you coming up with this stuff?

For the person who said "if you make it obvious that you never passed 6th grade English" , how is it you know if I passed or not? Do you have my school record? I do not thin you do and if you did you would know I graduated an A-C student. Do not sit here and talk as if you know things about me when you do not.

tully I am no teenager I am 19, I drive and I start college soon. Do not sit here and call me a damn teen when I am not.

You know what, I am 19 and I act very mature for my age and I usually like to hang with adults because I think they act mature and stuff but you no what, the more I hang online the more I see the whole adults being nice and understanding fade and fade and same goes with the maturity of them.

I see so many adults bitch about this and that and so many stupid things such as grammar. I am 19 and I see people post to where you can not understand a damn word they say but yet I do not say anything to them because I feel it is not my place to tell them they have bad grammar or anything because the fact is that its not. I also find it to be ignorant of me and usually when you jump on someone for something as stupid as that your ass gets jumped on.

Here is the thing with adults, the thing with them is that if they are in a forum and a regular starts s** with a new person and they are in the wrong the people usually take their side because they are a regular and that is just straight up wrong of them. I have seen so many people I know do it and it pisses me off because it is just not right and it is so childish of them.

I think the main thing that is pissing me off here is that people are saying I said stuff that I did not such as the one person posting I need to work on my racism when I never said I was racist I just said what the BLACK boy was saying, never did I say I was racist or say I used the N word and also that people are acting as if the world is ending just because of some grammar mistakes.

I honestly am not going to post on this again because I am not going to deal with ignorance and people who hate children when they act like children themselves.

You all can post all the ignorant stuff you want after this but I will not be reading it because I am doing the mature thing and ignoring all of this because I just find it retarded to fight on the net over silly stuff like this, I said what needs to be said and that's that.

[Steve SFM]

I honestly am not going to post on this again

http://www.oracleofottawa.org/applause.gif

With extra special thanks to Dr. Monkey.

Oh, and you're not a teenager because you're nineTEEN. ;l Thanks for bolding that!

And now, go away.

Racist.

Steve the Sweet Fat Man

[Amy!]

Ignorant, bad grammar, leaving, best friend is black, martyr.... I think that's a forumz Bingo kids!

[tully]

Oy, I would respond, but you've LEFTtm already.

[Rinky vs.4.0]

I am no teenager I am 19, I drive and I start college soon. Do not sit here and call me a damn teen when I am not.

I'm sorry. You're nineteen. Nineteen?

Isn't the clue in the question?

Oh, and if you're going to college, I think you better start caring about grammar unless you want your professors to mock you in the staffroom as Whiney McIlliterate III of the Twerpy Teen Clan and scrawl the academic equivalent of "You are very stupid, please self-euthanize," on your papers. Or if you actually want to get a degree that's worth a damn thing.

Anyway, Chrissey87, you have been evicted. Please leave the CF House!

[jeth]

Awwww, someone's lashing out like she just got grounded!

That was definitely the @ bingo calling card right there. If she comes back and says one more thing I'll have a blackout!

[Jezebelle]

Not only is nineteen a number that falls in the teens, but you also describe a me vs. adults thing later on in your post, implying that you are not an adult. Very poor debating skills.

These higher order reasoning skills usually occur around your age. I guess any day now.....

[RedHead]

I just had to come back to this post to tell a "kids should not be allowed in..." story that happenned to me and a friend last night. We were at Old Navy, where there are a LOT of children ALL the time. So, this small child, probably 6 years old is on the escalator with no parent in sight, and she THROWS her full plastic juice cup off the escalator which proceeds to hit my friend in the back of the head. She then looks over the edge of the escalator railing and LAUGHS! I seriously wanted to strangle that child....but realizing it wasn't her fault, she's a kid, I wanted to strangle the parent who was completely absent!

[Sulley]

I've got a good one.

So today my sister and I decide to go to Modell's (It's a sneaker/sporting good store) because she needed some shorts to wear for her camp-counselor job. We are standing by a clothing rack trying to decide which shorts would be best, when all of a sudden a child on ROLLERBLADES proceeds to whack into rack, almost knocking the whole thing over. Her dad was buying her rollerblades. She then continues to skate around the whole downstairs portion of the store. I said to my sister "I really want her to fall." We both agreed that when this happened, we would laugh, because that's how we roll. Anyway, we go upstairs to the registers, and said rollerblade girl is now skating upstairs. It isn't a big store, so she really didn't have too many places to go. She damn near took out a few customers on line, including my sister.

What is wrong with people? Why on earth would you allow your child to rollerblade around the store? She could've hurt herself or someone else. I was also extremely annoyed that not one employee had the fucking balls to tell her father that she shouldn't be rollerblading around the store. Sure, 4 of them can attack my sister and I asking if we need any help, but there's a god damn kid rollerblading around in not yet purchased merchandise, and no one says anything. Amazing. The whole family should've been beaten with a golf shoe.

[Rinky vs.4.0]

Well, maybe she'll roll under a car first time she's out wearing them? Wish on a star! ;)

It amzes me what people think is ok to do in stores or just in confined spaces in public. Like those twerpy parents who let their little kids push their doll pram or ride their tricycles in crowded Saturday shopping streets. They slow everyone down to a crawl, bump into people and get stepped on. It's just so fucking inconsiderate.

[haunted]

in a very lovely bookstore today, a very annoying young girl was running around the shop holding her crotch and screaming about how she needed to go to the bathroom. her mother continued to yell back that she couldn't go in this store.

there was more..but yeah. argh.

[redbaron]

In other annoying child news...I was having a cigarette the other day outside, and there was a group of tourists and their little boy, who had Down's Syndrome. Now, for some reason, little boy with Down's Syndrome spots me and stares at me. I ignore this. Suddenly, mom and dad are egging him on like "Go ahead! Go ahead!"

The kid COMES OVER TO ME and says, "Smoking is bad for you!" and then is all proud of himself. He smiles and Mom and Dad start fucking CLAPPING. Now, I am all for encouraging good health habits in your children, but teaching this kid to approach total strangers on the street and lecture them is not the way to go. I mean, was I supposed to comply because the kid is disabled? Am I supposed to encourage him? What? I just sort of smiled at him, and he walked away looking all disheartened, and his parents glared at me. Jesus, at least I didn't tell the kid to piss off! Some people in NYC would have!I've posted this before, but I think I may get more support in this forum.

I was at work, ringing people up at the register, when I notice this child and his mother talking about something and looking at me. She says something to the effect of "go ahead, yes, ask him" and he comes up to me and says, "Do you have Jesus in your heart?" Afterward I came up with all kinds of wonderful responses, but at the time I just wanted to appease the brat and make them leave so I answered with some kind of non-commital "uh-huh". Then the kid smiled really big and turned to his mother and she tells him, "That means that he'll go to heaven, with us!" and I just wanted to throw up all over them.

It wasn't so much the kid I was angry with, he was very young and obviously just spouting what his mother told him, but the mother? Argh. She's teaching her kid that it's ok to just walk up to random strangers and ask them very personal things. And what if I had said no? Would I have gotten a lecture that I was going to hell?

[toriwannabe]

On TV this morning, a restaurant owner told how he kicked out a group of about 20 people from his restaurant after he repeatedly asked the parents to keep control of their kids. They were letting the kids run around the restaurant, even going into the kitchen and getting in the way of staff.

That guy's my hero...