Shopping

[kyburg]

Went to Ontario Mills Saturday. What do I have to say about the typical shopper?

Destructive Little Beasts.

No, I mean it. Went into Cost Plus Imports and found this after that either mangled, broken or vandalized beyond any possible hope of a sale. Marzipan fruit ripped in half, holes poked into them (little fingers making lots of little holes), porcelain tschockeys chipped, broken or otherwise mangled. Plastic covers ripped off boxes. Hollow chocolates broken into little pieces.

Intercepted a band of boys trying to get candy out of the coin-turn vending machines. By beating on them as hard as a their little 8 year old bodies could manage. When security showed up, they dissapeared like smoke. There are a lot of machines. Somehow, I suspect they were taught to bang on anything with candy in it if they want any.

Destructive little beasts.

On the flip side, parents with children seemed to be having a pretty reasonable time - I was pulling toys out of the UFO catcher machine at Dave & Busters with a son and father who beat the crap out of me, prize-wise. Santa Claus was quiet, pleasant and squall-less.

I can see why unescorted children aren't welcome anywhere. I just see those kids beating the crap out of a person when they want something out of them...instead of a few cents worth of chewing gum.

I gotta call to place to Cost Plus. That was plain disgusting.

Comments

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

This is why I am campaigning to have a national "Be a Parent" law put into place. It works two ways. If someone sees a kid misbehaving, then they have the right to 'be a parent' and beat them into good behavior. And since their biological parents let these pewling little larvae run amuk, you get to beat them into submission so that they might get the message to (what else) 'Be a parent!'.

What do you think?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

To a degree, I do that already. Must be those years I was a camp counselor.

You can't spank 'em, and you can't tie 'em to a tree. Anything else, including "what the *bleep* are you doing?!" is legal.

People seem to forget that reasonable behavior is perfectly acceptable - I think a lot of the problem here is that it's assumed nobody is looking, and if they are, they won't care or do a thing.

Heh. Fat chance. Those kids? They had five people passing on either side of them all the time they were banging away (and it wasn't quiet) - and nobody even looked. Me, I walked right up to see what was going on - and I think they had shook enough candy into the gears to totally mess them up. Mall Security was only two steps away - and all they did was go duh and start checking out the machine. Meanwhile, kids go poof.

Just do nothing folks. Sheesh.

[arkhamrefugee.livejournal.com]

It's probably because no-one wants to deal with the screeching harpy of a soccer mom who will decend upon the interloper who -dared- touch a hair on her precious offspring's head with their foul breath. Nevermind the fact that the offspring in question is about two microseconds away from committing vandalism. Oh, no.. not HER child!

Can you tell I've been around the block on this once or twice?

My rule on children is that I don't like 'em. 'Seen and not heard' was the rule at my house as a child when other adults where around. And since that was how I was brought up to behave, I expect that from kids now. And when I want to belt a whiney bratty kid in the chops for mouthing off to me or acting out, I wanna belt the parent twice for letting their kid get that way.

Frikking kids. Frikking lax parents. Kill 'em all...