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  • #1

    You're pissed *WHY*?!?! (language and mild rant)

    This is a short one, but GOD DAMN!

    Today was busy. VERY busy. Both with regular customers and customers using those FRACKING bottle machines. The damned things filled every hour AT LEAST. Less than that in most cases.

    So I go out to empty a glass machine and I see a kid who was maybe five or six picking up a piece of glass and deciding it looked mighty fucking tasty. When the glass bottles get put through, they're crushed and sometimes the glass manages to get out when we're unjamming one or something. She was getting ready to stick the damn thing in her mouth when I jumped in.

    Me: No! Don't eat that, it's bad! It'll cut your mouth.
    Kid: *drops the glass like a good little monkey*

    Then the mother, who had until now been chatting it up with a friend and ignoring the kid (something that pisses me off in itself), turns and glares at me. She's an outta stater. Slight accent from I dunno where.

    BITCH: Don't tell my kid what to do!
    Me: Ma'am... She was about to eat a piece of broken glass.
    BITCH: Then *I'LL* tell her not to eat it!
    Me: .... Alright...? But you weren't looking at the moment and I didn't want her to get hurt.
    BITCH: I WAS TOO LOOKING!
    Me: *thoroughly annoyed at this point* Alright. Have a nice day. *walks back inside*

    I mean... Seriously? SERIOUSLY?! You're pissed and yelling at me because I stopped your kid from eating broken glass. FROM EATING GLASS! And you're telling me not to tell your kid what to do?

    I'm all for the theory of Darwin weeding out the weaker of the species, and I may not be all that fond of children, but dammit! Weed yourself out before you worry about letting your kid do herself in. If I weren't too fricken shocked, I would've had one of my CW's call DHS.

    Fucking CHRIST, woman! I mean, she didn't say that she would've let her kid eat the glass, but apparently that would've been better than me telling her not to.

    Well... That was my day.
    I have CDO. It's kinda like OCD, but the letters are where they should be!

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  • #2
    And is EXACTLY why I've taken a vow of silence when it comes to kids and them doing something stupid like this, I just don't do it any more.
    Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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    • #3
      Quoth Android Kaeli View Post
      And is EXACTLY why I've taken a vow of silence when it comes to kids and them doing something stupid like this, I just don't do it any more.
      But STILL... I'm not going to let the kid eat glass, be sent to the hospital, and then have our asses sued because this woman can't keep tabs on it.
      I have CDO. It's kinda like OCD, but the letters are where they should be!

      After Tuesday, even the calendar goes W T F...

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      • #4
        Quoth MelodiousBubbles View Post
        But STILL... I'm not going to let the kid eat glass, be sent to the hospital, and then have our asses sued because this woman can't keep tabs on it.
        You did the right thing, she would have probably been a hundred times worse to deal with if something bad had actually happened.

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        • #5
          The kid was 5 or 6 and thought glass would be good to eat? Good grief...
          If I'd been the Mom, I'd have thanked you vociferously. When kids are at that hyperactive stage where they can basically phase in and out of locations, it is impossible to keep your eye on them every single minute...
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          • #6
            You did the right thing. I would've gone off on the 'mother' minus swear words of course(any other place and she would be unable to move for a few seconds after I was one with her due to shock )


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            Out of retail!

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            • #7
              Quoth Keiara View Post
              You did the right thing. I would've gone off on the 'mother' minus swear words of course(any other place and she would be unable to move for a few seconds after I was one with her due to shock )


              *Offers booze and chocolate*
              Omnom booze and chocolate.

              And I would have gone off on her and probably gotten away with it, but as I mentioned, we were busy, I was mildly shocked, and I honestly don't find non-regular tourists to be worth the effort half the time.
              I have CDO. It's kinda like OCD, but the letters are where they should be!

              After Tuesday, even the calendar goes W T F...

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              • #8
                I have to agree with a few other people. If you hadn't done anything, the girl would have tried to eat the glass, gotten hurt, and then the mother would have snapped and sued the place, probably successfully. After all, it was likely that it was broken glass from your machine.

                As for why she snapped like that? Well, there's a good answer for that, and it's called 'She was standing a distance away, talking to a friend.'

                More like than not, she gets called on her bad parenting, and often. And thus, is more than a little reactionary when someone yet AGAIN points out what a bad mother she is. XP

                As for the whole Darwin thing, I don't see the kid of worthy of being hurt, a child is usualy too innocent to think of consequences. If only we could have the parents suffer the wounds of their children, maybe we'd have a better generation of parents.

                Nah, they'd just use it as another excuse to overprotect their kids and raise them to think more of themselves than anyone else.

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                • #9
                  Quoth iradney View Post
                  The kid was 5 or 6 and thought glass would be good to eat? Good grief...
                  If I'd been the Mom, I'd have thanked you vociferously. When kids are at that hyperactive stage where they can basically phase in and out of locations, it is impossible to keep your eye on them every single minute...
                  Quoted for truth. Sometimes even the best of moms get distracted for a few seconds (and I know the one in the OP was not one of those kind of moms) and those little buggers are a lot quicker than you think! Even if it's just a stranger picking up a toy I hadn't noticed was dropped I'm still grateful. I don't automatically assume I'm being slighted on my parenting skills, and I always thank whomever just helped me out.

                  I'm just odd like that I guess.
                  "I've never had a heart attack, but it isn't for my son's lack of trying." - Me

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                  • #10
                    just be glad you managed to stop the child trying to eat the glass....imagine what harm could have been done if you hadent stepped in there!

                    Well done

                    Ignore the #sic# "mother's" reaction....could have been down to shame of not being aware of what was going on......or on the other hand she could have just been an idiot!!!

                    Either way Well Done
                    We are the willing, led by the unknowing, doing the impossible, for the ungrateful, we have now done so much, for so long - for so many, with so little, we can now do anything with nothing!!!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Mordecai View Post
                      You did the right thing, she would have probably been a hundred times worse to deal with if something bad had actually happened.
                      Threatened to sue, demanded the medical care be covered, etc., etc., etc.

                      I think you absolutely did the right thing.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth TTAZ View Post
                        Quoted for truth. Sometimes even the best of moms get distracted for a few seconds (and I know the one in the OP was not one of those kind of moms) and those little buggers are a lot quicker than you think! Even if it's just a stranger picking up a toy I hadn't noticed was dropped I'm still grateful. I don't automatically assume I'm being slighted on my parenting skills, and I always thank whomever just helped me out.

                        I'm just odd like that I guess.
                        It's why I told her that I did it because she wasn't watching "at that moment." I realize the little demons wander off pretty fricken quick and get into shit they shouldn't. I was one such monster myself.

                        As for the comment on my Darwin mention: I did say that she should let her kid wait until she's a bit older to try and contest for one. I didn't mean that I was for her winning one now, or else I wouldn't have bothered stopping her from eating the glass.
                        I have CDO. It's kinda like OCD, but the letters are where they should be!

                        After Tuesday, even the calendar goes W T F...

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                        • #13
                          That lady should have at least apologized and thanked you for not letting her daughter get hurt. Of course she just had to blame someone else for her lack of supervision.

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                          • #14
                            Quoth MelodiousBubbles View Post
                            It's why I told her that I did it because she wasn't watching "at that moment." I realize the little demons wander off pretty fricken quick and get into shit they shouldn't. I was one such monster myself.

                            As for the comment on my Darwin mention: I did say that she should let her kid wait until she's a bit older to try and contest for one. I didn't mean that I was for her winning one now, or else I wouldn't have bothered stopping her from eating the glass.
                            No worries! I know you weren't being unfair about the whole thing, and the Darwin thing was just one of those things you say when you are ticked off to the max. One time my lil' guy decided the best way to eat a graham cracker was to shove it all the way down his throat whole. I was so ticked (because I was scared of him choking) that the first thing out of my mouth was "If you are intent on choking to death in the grocery store, lets head back to produce, get you a zucchini and you can do it right."

                            I got a dirty look for that one.
                            "I've never had a heart attack, but it isn't for my son's lack of trying." - Me

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                            • #15
                              Quoth TTAZ View Post
                              No worries! I know you weren't being unfair about the whole thing, and the Darwin thing was just one of those things you say when you are ticked off to the max. One time my lil' guy decided the best way to eat a graham cracker was to shove it all the way down his throat whole. I was so ticked (because I was scared of him choking) that the first thing out of my mouth was "If you are intent on choking to death in the grocery store, lets head back to produce, get you a zucchini and you can do it right."

                              I got a dirty look for that one.
                              Sorry, but that one made me giggle a bit

                              I'm the third oldest out of 7, sometimes more depending on if my dad and stepmom have someone they're fostering, and whenever I visit, it's entertaining to say the least. Some of the shit my little brothers pull make me wonder how they're still standing. One just recently dislocated his ankle. Not broken or sprained, but dislocated. I'm still scratching my head over that one.
                              I have CDO. It's kinda like OCD, but the letters are where they should be!

                              After Tuesday, even the calendar goes W T F...

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