It's somebody else's fault

[Foxbite]

Ah "gem", the classiest of grocery stores where everything is someone else's fault. I should know better than to shop after 10pm but sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day.

An uninterested mother glued to her cellphone was shopping for crackers with an un-tethered overtired 2-yr-old toddler running in circles around her. Child decides to run face-first into the basket of another shopper's non-moving cart and fall over. Cue outraged shrieking and accusatory pointing by child at the other shopper whose cart he ran into. Mother pauses her phone conversation to turn and start screaming threats, NOT at the other shopper, but at an uninvolved shelf stocker 6 feet away for having such an unsafe store. Manager is called, woman is demanding firing of this poor guy for somehow making her precious angel run into the cart.

Other shopper whose cart the toddler headbutted chimes in telling the manager the woman was ignoring her kid and letting him run rampant when the kid hurt himself. The manager offers to review the security tape, but the woman (probably sensing the jig is up) flips her lid and storms away, sweeping a whole row of cracker packages to the floor with her arm as she goes screaming I'LL NEVER SHOP HERE AGAIN!!1!

She comes back a minute later to collect her sniffling toddler that she left behind.

[EricKei]

"Kids are $9.99 a pound these days, Ma'am. That'll be..."

Welcome to CS, Foxbite!

[notalwaysright]

When you said after 10 shopping I assumed it would involve drunk college kids, since that's what I get at my town. But arg, late night shoppers with little kids.

We had a little toddler run really hard into the edge of a shelf and gash his head open. This was quite a while ago. Anyways, the lawsuit went forward until the video was reviewed... It showed the mom several check stands away, with her back to the child. The shelf was just innocently... shelfing... until it was hit, unprovoked, by the head of the child. Lawsuit dropped. (PS, the mom claimed the shelf was unsafe because after the kid ran into it, it fell down. Which wasn't really true, one side came a bit loose and dropped a few inches)

[CyberLurch]

Welcome to modern 'Murica, where responsibility for YOUR inability to deal with your problems always falls to somebody else. The one with the deep pockets, ideally, but failing that, any convenient, otherwise uninvolved schlep will do.

It's not YOUR fault if you're too busy with your cell phone to notice the rail crossing signals and your car gets smashed by the train; the fault is obviously the railroad's for failing to stop the train just for special little you.

It's not YOUR fault your dog, which you failed to bring inside when you ordered pizza, bites the delivery man. Clearly, it's the delivery man's fault because... well, because.

It's not YOUR fault when you leave your worn-out old beater car running outside the convenience store with its faulty shifter mechanism, and the thing drops into reverse and goes careening, unmanned, across the parking lot into another vehicle. Naturally, it's the clerk's fault for not taking time from his actual job to pay attention to your jalopy.

It's not YOUR fault you ignored the flashing signs and went flying through the school zone at 45 miles per hour. It's the cop's fault for pulling you over.

It's not YOUR fault you literally ran into fast-moving traffic without so much as a glance and got tossed about twenty feet into the air by that sports car. The driver of the car that clipped you is definitely to blame for your injuries, and I'm very obviously out to 'get you' when I stopped to give a witness statement to the police. Even though I don't know you from Adam.

You only wanted ten dollars worth of gas, so you used your debit card at the gas pump to start the machine. So of COURSE it's the gas station's fault when the pump fails to magically divine the amount you wanted and instead dispenses some 30-odd dollars worth.

It's not YOUR fault you got fired for theft. It's your employer's fault for not paying you enough to support your three-pack-a-day vice. Just like I imagine it'll be the tobacco company's fault when you develop lung cancer before you're 40.

It's not YOUR fault you got nailed for the umpteenth time selling illicit substances. It's your parents fault, the school's fault, society's fault, the cop's fault, the judge's fault, the lawyer's fault, your parole officer's fault, etc. that you're going to do a hard 10 to 15 now.

I could go on. I've born witness to all of these, or even been involved. It's no wonder so many children, teens, and young adults are so irresponsible these days - they learned from their parents and from society in general. Thanks, lawyers, for enabling these idiots.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Thanks, lawyers, for enabling these idiots.

May as well throw in a "thanks, stupid/biased people who get on juries."