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    My last customer of the night came up to me looking pretty pissed off, and said some people need to take parenting classes. He pointed at our concierges desk, where 4 kids were behind the desk, trying to boot up the computer, trying to open the desk, and one of them picked up the phone and started dialing every extension on the list next to it and hanging up. All while the mother was laughing.

    My customer made a VERY LOUD comment about how certain customers of ours needed to learn responsible parenting, while looking dead at the mother. She just gave him a dirty look and... walked off, leaving her children behind. One of them couldn't have been over 5 or 6. Total of 4 of them.

    Ah crap. I hate confrontation, the customer suggests I call my manager, which is exactly what I did. He came up and chased the kids out from behind the desk and told them they needed to leave the store as soon as they could find their parents. My customer and myself both thanked him.

    Turns out my customer owns a couple of restaurants, and used to have a regular family that would always come in and let their kids run wild. He said they broke the front door not once, but twice, and he had to ban them from coming back.

    I should have gotten a business card or something from him, I'm always up for hitting up locally owned places.
    Last edited by iradney; 06-06-2009, 08:10 AM. Reason: removed offensive name

  • #2
    Now that's one cool ass customer (the business owner)! As for the SC, she makes Bebe's Kids look like angels in comparison with her brats.
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    • #3
      Holy Monkey. No way in HELL would my kids get away with that crap. I don't understand the mentality of some of these people. It just makes me all Grr and stuff.

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      • #4


        Ya know, it's bad enough when your kid acts up in a store. It's happened to MOST of us as parents.

        But when these kids are being encouraged and laughed at and 'awwww, so cute'd by their parents, it just turns my stomach.

        Warping the next generation of EW's, one brat at a time.
        "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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        • #5
          Or worse explained away with that irritating sentence, "But they're just being kids!"

          As in the context of "Excuse me, your children are stabbing me and I am dying."

          "They're just being kids!" or "Kids will be kids." -.-
          People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life.
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          • #6
            Quoth Lace Neil Singer View Post
            Or worse explained away with that irritating sentence, "But they're just being kids!"
            I was a kid once, I never did that shit...in public...
            I don't go in for ancient wisdom
            I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
            It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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            • #7
              Quoth BookstoreEscapee View Post
              I was a kid once, I never did that shit...in public...
              If I did, I made sure I wasn't caught... *whistles innocently* XD I was a master of the "misbehave and make sure little brothers get blamed" school; well, until they learned better and then I decided it was better to join forces with them rather than do that. In any case, if we played up in public, we knew damn well that our parents would give us hell for embarrassing them. O_o
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              • #8
                I didn't have any little brothers...

                I was the little sister...I got to cry and blame the big brother
                I don't go in for ancient wisdom
                I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
                It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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                • #9
                  I was the baby sister with one big sister.

                  We just behaved well in public. Several times one of our babysitters (who typically had kids our age) would take all of us out somewhere, even just grocery shopping, and my Sibling and I would be SHOCKED at how badly behaved they were.

                  Recall, these are kids OUR age.

                  We learned in the school of What Not To Do.
                  "For the love of all that is holy and 4 things that aren’t but feel pretty good anyway" ~ Gravekeeper

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                  • #10
                    Quoth BookstoreEscapee View Post
                    I didn't have any little brothers...

                    I was the little sister...I got to cry and blame the big brother
                    Being the oldest child was no picnic . . . my little brother would try to blame me for stuff.

                    Didn't work all the time though . . . Moms have that super-sixth sense that tells them exactly what happened.

                    Actually I can't call him little anymore . . . he towers over me at 6'1" while I'm a measly 5'4".
                    Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)

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                    • #11
                      Quoth DGoddessChardonnay View Post
                      Being the oldest child was no picnic . . . my little brother would try to blame me for stuff.
                      I'm the older kid, and I was always the good kid, too.

                      My dad was a dick to my brother, who responded by being a little hellion. *shakes head*

                      Our mom has a story about how my dad blamed my brother for something and I piped up that it was my fault, not his, but my dad just said I was covering for him. Yeah, we don't miss him. Not that he's actually dead, yet...

                      ^-.-^
                      Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden

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                      • #12
                        won't go into details but my brother and i were little hellions ourselves...

                        NIGHTMARE of a kid to babysit...aparently i'm the only babysitter he's ever lied to (pfft...i didn't believe it) because he might actually get away with it...he started to behave after i lost my temper and told him to go upstairs to his room for lying and being rude and throwing a fit...he always behaves after i send him to his room...considering his mother washes his mouth out with soap after a LITTLE bit of rudeness i have the patience of GOD...his mom even told me "don't be afraid to punish him, i know he misbehaves and he needs to be taught how to act nice"...i'm a bit more lenient on the punishments though... /rant

                        sorry about that though...i hate sucky kids...

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                        • #13
                          Quoth bean View Post
                          My last customer of the night came up to me looking pretty pissed off, and said...
                          ok I know I have been at work too long when I had to read that 4 times in order to understand the first sentence. I SWEAR it said

                          My computer last night came up to me looking pretty pissed off, and said...
                          And yet, for some reason - that kind of made sense!

                          i think I need a break lol

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                          • #14
                            4 kids were behind the desk, trying to boot up the computer, trying to open the desk, and one of them picked up the phone and started dialing every extension on the list next to it and hanging up. All while the mother was laughing.
                            If that was me, my sister, and brother our parents wouldn't have laughed it off, we would have gotten a spanking.
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                            • #15
                              I think I can recall acting similarly bad while out with my parents in public sometimes.

                              Each time I ended up not being able to sit for a while.

                              Somehow I can't imagine kids years ago being able to act like this while out in public with their parents. Something in our society has changed for the worse in that regard.
                              Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

                              "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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