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So I'm on FDLP duty today, checkin' receipts and generally being my usual awesome self. My coworker A is manning the food court.
I check this woman's receipt, and she goes on outside to wait for her party to bring the car around for loading. (They had two cartloads of stuff.)
Then the woman's daughter, who looked to be 3 or 4 years old (maybe younger?) comes running back inside and goes over to the food court. I look at her, then keep glancing back toward the door, expecting to see Momma come back in.
No sign of Momma. Meanwhile, Little Precious has reached up and grabbed a bag of popcorn from the food court's warming station, takes like one bite's worth before A notices her. A. walks around to talk to Little Precious and ask her where Momma is. Well, Momma's outside. So A explains to Precious that the popcorn costs money, so take me to your Momma.
They go outside (I'm keeping an eye on things, as a just in case), and I hear A explain that Little Precious had come inside, and goes into discussion with Momma while I have to take my attention away to deal with some customers.
After a minute, A comes back in with the popcorn, which she has to throw away. Turns out Momma had no idea where Little Precious had gone, hadn't even noticed she was gone, and seemed utterly unconcerned, from what A told me. She said she wasn't going to buy the popcorn her daughter had started munching on, hence why we had to throw it out.
She and I agreed that Momma seemed unsuited to parenthood, given how she wasn't trying to control Little Precious at all, her lack of concern over any dangers that Little Precious might have gotten into (stranger danger, burning herself on the warming station, what-have-you), and whatnot.
More worrying to both of us was that Momma-- having learned nothing, as far as we could tell-- is already pregnant again. Sigh.
I check this woman's receipt, and she goes on outside to wait for her party to bring the car around for loading. (They had two cartloads of stuff.)
Then the woman's daughter, who looked to be 3 or 4 years old (maybe younger?) comes running back inside and goes over to the food court. I look at her, then keep glancing back toward the door, expecting to see Momma come back in.
No sign of Momma. Meanwhile, Little Precious has reached up and grabbed a bag of popcorn from the food court's warming station, takes like one bite's worth before A notices her. A. walks around to talk to Little Precious and ask her where Momma is. Well, Momma's outside. So A explains to Precious that the popcorn costs money, so take me to your Momma.
They go outside (I'm keeping an eye on things, as a just in case), and I hear A explain that Little Precious had come inside, and goes into discussion with Momma while I have to take my attention away to deal with some customers.
After a minute, A comes back in with the popcorn, which she has to throw away. Turns out Momma had no idea where Little Precious had gone, hadn't even noticed she was gone, and seemed utterly unconcerned, from what A told me. She said she wasn't going to buy the popcorn her daughter had started munching on, hence why we had to throw it out.
She and I agreed that Momma seemed unsuited to parenthood, given how she wasn't trying to control Little Precious at all, her lack of concern over any dangers that Little Precious might have gotten into (stranger danger, burning herself on the warming station, what-have-you), and whatnot.
More worrying to both of us was that Momma-- having learned nothing, as far as we could tell-- is already pregnant again. Sigh.
How do you not watch your toddler? It's one thing when they just slip off and you didn't notice, as I know kids can wander off even with the best of supervision, but damn...I feel sorry for her toddler AND her upcoming baby.
This is a sad world to have kids in with all the kidnappers and murderers and stuff.
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