Today we went out thrift store hopping, looking for treasures. Whenever we go to thrift stores or Walmart for that matter, we happen across parents who have lost all patience with their children, but today was especially filled with odd parental discipline.
During one instance I couldn't get away fast enough before I started to giggle. A mother must have finally found her daughter in the store after searching for her for a while and was telling her daughter very calmly that the daughter can't leave the mother's side and that she had to stay with her at all times and then the mother says, "You can't wander around the store like a (bleeping) monkey." I looked at Brian and he looked at me and we both started laughing right away. That was very strange for the women to say to her young daughter and not exactly what I thought was appropriate.
The next instance a boy was trying to show him mom something he picked up from a shelf, but she wouldn't respond. He kept saying Mom, Mom, Mom and finally he tugged on her coat. She yelled as loud as she could, "Don't pull on my jacket, that is so rude!" I think I probably jumped a foot in the air and my eyes bugged out of my head it was so loud. I wanted to tell the lady, No, what is rude is that you are a grown woman screaming at your child in a public store.
I don't have kids, so I haven't fully experienced the exhaustion of shopping with children yet, but I hope that one day when I do have kids of my own, I can keep the obscenities out of conversation and leave the tantrums to the kids.
~ Nicole
2 comments:
Shopping with my one-year-old hasn't really been challenging yet either. But I'm with you! I hope I can learn from others what NOT to do (when I'm shopping with her when she's older)!
That story reminds me of a time when I was out shopping with Chris and he was acting up, the next aisle over we heard a women yell at her child and I mean yell, "if you dont stop I am gonna yank your (%#*?) arm off and beat you to death with it" Chris's eyes got so big and almost popped out of his head! He was well behaved the rest of the time we were shopping, I'll never forget that, I couldent believe that someone would tell their kid something like that
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