why all women should not be mothers....

[sweetj82]

this happened awhile ago but with all the bad father stories i just had to share.

this little boy came up and said he cant find his mommy.

ok so we make a page.

Attention all customers we have a lost mommy please check to make sure you have your whole party.

ok after a few noone shows up we page again

well we finally get the moms name from the boy we page her by name again and again.

managers go around trying to find her.

Well after awhile the cops were called.

they go to where the kids say he lives and guess what the mother is taking a nap.

she told the cop that she just assumed her boy was upstairs. when the cop asked why she left the store with out she said"i have 8 kids i cant be expected to know where they all are"

needless to say that mom's kids were taken away

[MrTim]

needless to say that mom's kids were taken away

Good.

I truly think that reproduction should require an IQ test, or licence of some sort. There are too many people with kids who don't appreciate them, and far too many who deserve them but can't have them.

[sweetj82]

let me just say that we had to call the cops on her before. She would have 2-3 code adams everytime she shopped.

[MrTim]

I witnessed things like this first hand while hanging out with a friend at her job. People would treat the video store as a form of daycare, dropping their kids off for hours at a time. I know I have read other posts here which sound the same and it is very scary - how can people do this to their children?

[sweetj82]

one time a customer wanted our toy manager to be fired b/c he went to lunch while her kids were in the dept.

[SongsOfDragons]

Good.

I truly think that reproduction should require an IQ test, or licence of some sort. There are too many people with kids who don't appreciate them, and far too many who deserve them but can't have them.

I agree with the requiring for a license, but with the state of things in Britain at the moment they probably won't let you have said licence for their favourite reasons, such aaaas being related to or within two generations of a smoker, having a criminal record, being overweight, being unemployed, not having X amount in the bank at time of applying, having some disease or disability which may not annoy you in life but you could pass it on to your child...

So yeah, great in theory and if implemented with education, sensibility and attitude in mind, but not if you're Labour. Or Tory. Or LibDem, or Green, or etc etc...

[iradney]

I agree with the requiring for a license, but with the state of things in Britain at the moment they probably won't let you have said licence for their favourite reasons, such aaaas being related to or within two generations of a smoker, having a criminal record, being overweight, being unemployed, not having X amount in the bank at time of applying, having some disease or disability which may not annoy you in life but you could pass it on to your child...

So yeah, great in theory and if implemented with education, sensibility and attitude in mind, but not if you're Labour. Or Tory. Or LibDem, or Green, or etc etc...

Good.

I truly think that reproduction should require an IQ test, or licence of some sort. There are too many people with kids who don't appreciate them, and far too many who deserve them but can't have them.

I'm going to step in here as a mod - if you want to discuss licensing for parents etc, take it to fratching.

Please concentrate on the topic at hand, which is how this particular mother is a good example of how NOT to parent.

Any further attempts to pursue a discussion on parental licensing will be met with infractions.

Thank you.

[LillFilly]

I witnessed things like this first hand while hanging out with a friend at her job. People would treat the video store as a form of daycare, dropping their kids off for hours at a time. I know I have read other posts here which sound the same and it is very scary - how can people do this to their children?

Exactly! At my last mall we got called to the game stores several times a week for this; 6-10 year olds being in the store for an hour with no parent. The parents were always LIVID when they were paged. We told them they could always pony-up for the arcade or the daycare center See, key here was free vs. paying.

That woman who loses her kids all the time; sick! Reminds me of that news story where a group forgot one of their kids at a Chucky Cheese and didn't realize it for several days!

[ralerin]

That woman who loses her kids all the time; sick! Reminds me of that news story where a group forgot one of their kids at a Chucky Cheese and didn't realize it for several days!

WHAT?!? HOW ON EARTH?!?

[agirlfromnowhere]

Well, I don't have any children but I do have a much younger little sister. When she was that age I couldn't even imagine letting her get out of my sight. Seriously, one time at the library I turned around for a second and she wandered off and I seriously just about had a heart attack, stroke and panic attack at the same time lol.

Gah I don't know whats wrong with people

[Aut]

she told the cop that she just assumed her boy was upstairs. when the cop asked why she left the store with out she said"i have 8 kids i cant be expected to know where they all are"

I had a little sympathy for this woman up until this. I had a Houdini child at one time. And we spent so much time at my best friend's apartment next door, that a few people that found her took her to my friend (thinking my Houdini lived there). Then there were the times that I would catch her sneaking off and she would run, but mommy's can always (eventually) outrun 2 year olds. But no matter how much I childproofed, the fact that her older brothers would never close the door all the way lead to the trouble. A few weeks ago, there was a similar situation across the street that made the local news. I didn't even see all the police cars and the ambulance that showed up because I had left less than 5 minutes before they arrived, and by the time I got home, they were gone. I just happened to be watching the news at lunchtime, heard the name of my street, looked up and there was my house on tv.

But to make a statement like mom-of-the-year did clearly shows she's not up to parenting that many children, and perhaps none at all.

[ZedOmega]

All of a sudden, I've got this mad urge to watch Home Alone again.

Seriously, eight kids? Most mothers I talked to at work only have maybe three kids max! How... No, I'd better not ask. I'll just end up going crazy again.

[ottid]

8 kids? Simple head count before leaving anywhere should be mandatory.

[sirwired]

We told them they could always pony-up for the arcade or the daycare center See, key here was free vs. paying.

As somebody who used to work in an arcade: the arcade isn't a daycare center either...

SirWired

[vstorevigilante]

I witnessed things like this first hand while hanging out with a friend at her job. People would treat the video store as a form of daycare, dropping their kids off for hours at a time. I know I have read other posts here which sound the same and it is very scary - how can people do this to their children?

Video store wench here. I too have experienced that firsthand. If they're not buying anything, after a while I have to ask them to leave, unless they're like.. under 10. At that point, I have to find out who the hell they belong to and why they're by themselves.