Mother of the year and her brat. (Long,with language)

[lobo94]

It's no surprise where she got that dirty mouth from but the brother on the other hand, I wonder how he came out differently from the egg donor and the mini-egg donor.

Maybe he was adopted?

[b2addm]

If my daughter (either one) had behaved like that in public, every item of clothing would be handed to the clerk with a polite "I'm sorry for the inconvenience, these will need to be replaced on the racks. I'm afraid she isn't getting any new school clothes after all." We would then be off to home

Ditto to this. I wish more ppl did it, I wouldn't even mind putting the stuff back for a GOOD parent.

Strangely enough, I got told so many times what nice helpful, courteous considerate girls I had. And I always looked over at them in puzzlement. Esp the youngest. I have to admit to being grateful she saved her nastiness for in home, and was an angel to her friends parents apparently. lol

And deja vu. I remember looking at mine the same way, but it's nice to be complimented on your children's behavior. Especially when they are raised to be polite and you also managed to raise happy kids. But the job of parent is too often taken with a lazy approach, as we see in retail waaaaay too often. Apparently part of what went wrong the *ahem* child in the OP's store.

[iloveasunflower13]

fingers crossed for you for the new job


so let me get this straight, because the supervisor called you a bitch without witnesses around no one can do anything about it?

does that work both ways? if it does i think you should take every opportunity open to you to call her ugly, stupid etc etc

:-)

Unfortunantly, it doesn't work both ways. someone tried it and was fired. now, For the record, i am NOT racist. but my supervisor (who is a guy btw) is african american, and has a tendency to pull the "Race card" (IE "she doesn't like me because i'm black") i have seen him do it repeatedly. he is the only man,and only person on the management team that is not caucasian, so the upper management tiptoes around him like he's made of glass. consequently he gets what he wants. he doesn't like you? he pressures you out. stand up to the pressure? he fires you for "insubordination". the only reason he hasn't fired me is because i do his job for him. (and yes the manager knows. she told me i had to do what he says in that respect, even though its NOT my job, because i have to "Be supportive.") hence my avid job hunting. the supervisor i had before was awesome. problem was he had a spine. anthracites doesn't like their people to have spines.

[Redbeard]

If my daughter (either one) had behaved like that in public, every item of clothing would be handed to the clerk with a polite "I'm sorry for the inconvenience, these will need to be replaced on the racks. I'm afraid she isn't getting any new school clothes after all." We would then be off to home. Strangely enough, I got told so many times what nice helpful, courteous considerate girls I had. And I always looked over at them in puzzlement. Esp the youngest. I have to admit to being grateful she saved her nastiness for in home, and was an angel to her friends parents apparently. lol

Wow...I would have had my ass beat so bright the glow could have been seen from space.
and then had my mouth washed out with soap, and possibly whupped one more time for good measure.

[pageantmama]

Ugh, another generation of rude inconsiderate entitlement whores. The boy must have been more like his dad. If my kids even thought about uttering those words they would get a talking too and probably a smack. And that is at home. I would have let the cashier smack them in the mouth if they pulled that crap. And for the record my mom was the type that every other word out of her mouth is f this and gd that. Yet once I was outside helping my dad build a new porch and something heavy fell on me and I screamed out Dammit, that hurt! by accident. I was I think around 15 or 16 at the time. I got the beating of my life for saying that. I do not cuss for that reason, I heard her saying it all the time and I hate hearing anyone curse. My husband used to be bad about it but when we had kids I started getting on to him for it. So now he does not curse around them at all. He might slip every now and then but then he gets the Look or a smack from me, lol. If you don't want your kids to say it, then don't let it come out of your mouth.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Good for you for refusing service. I can only imagine what would have happened to me if I said anything like that ANYWHERE near my parents, let alone to someone helping us in a store. *shudders* My parents were not the type to curse, though, so we didn't learn it from them in the first place. I still try very hard to avoid saying things they find offensive around them.

[taxguykarl]

It's no surprise where she got that dirty mouth from but the brother on the other hand, I wonder how he came out differently from the egg donor and the mini-egg donor.

Maybe he was adopted?

Or mixed up in the hospital...it's been known to happen. Back to the OP, hope you get hired at the jewelry place.

[Caractacus_Potts]

It's no surprise where she got that dirty mouth from but the brother on the other hand, I wonder how he came out differently from the egg donor and the mini-egg donor.

You might want to give the sister credit there. My sister is four years older than me. She liked to scream, throw tantrums, slam doors etc.

I suppose by comparison I was a perfect little angel. In reality I didn't like what she did any more than my parents did (and I certainly wanted to avoid the consequences). Basically she taught me how to behave...by five I had decided that if I ask myself, "What would Sis do?" and then do the exact opposite I should be fine.

[EricKei]

I ask myself, "What would Sis do?" and then do the exact opposite I should be fine.

While it was "bro", not "sis", for me, that's exactly how I learned to drive well Having to depend on him for rides for so long, I got nightmares on occasion due to his wonderful driving style. Fortunately, he grew up.

[telecom_goddess]

My mother was the type who swore all the time, yet she couldn't bring herself to say "fuck". She would whisper "f'ing" in some stupid ass way instead of just saying it. But as long as it wasn't the big bad evil fuck word she would let fly with anything. But of course I couldn't swear .

My kids have always been well behaved in public...it's not that hard to do people!

[depechemodefan]

the girl had a set of bracelets and a set of photo albums that she decided to explain to me were for her friend who was moving.

That might be her one saving grace, being kind to friends, though most likely she just lied about getting it for a friend, just wanted them for herself.

My dad cursed a lot. He would say, "cocksucker" and "chicken-shit bastard". Because my mom's native language wasn't English, she had no idea what he said. So I grew up thinking a "cocksucker" was the Kellogs rooster who ate lollypops and a "chicken-shit bastard" was a rubber chicken that played basketball.

I hope you don't have sucky customers at the jewelry store. More something cost, the more ew people act like.

[EricKei]

It's times like these that I like to invoke the sage advice of my paternal grandmother:

"Don't curse, dammit!" ^_^ She was fun.

[Clover]

If I even THOUGHT of language like that when I was a kid, I would have been beaten black and blue. I'm turning twenty-one in three days, and I still don't swear unless I'm with my friends and we're joking around, and even then I have to force the words out (which I get teased about a lot) because I'm so uncomfortable saying them. I rarely even type them! What is that woman's problem? Also, that child would NOT have been getting those items if I was the cashier and I had the right to refuse service. I would have taken them and put them on the little counter behind the register for return items and such, and told her to buzz off and learn some manners.

Honestly, why can't people be bothered to actually raise their children nowadays? My sister was a teenage mother, and her three kids know darn well to behave in public or ELSE.

[EricKei]

If I even THOUGHT of language like that when I was a kid, I would have been beaten black and blue. I'm turning twenty-one in three days, and I still don't swear unless I'm with my friends and we're joking around, and even then I have to force the words out

As a kid: same thing

Among friends: Something similar. There was one point -- especially when I was working a register -- that my CW's would know something was seriously wrong if they heard me actually curse out loud.