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[greghousesgf]

I'm going to make my heath bar cake later today for the atheists party tomorrow! I'm really looking forward to it, especially after last year. I need to go out and get more chocolate later, I screwed up in the grocery store yesterday and didn't get enough but I was too upset because these damn kids were riding scooters in the grocery store and I was pushing myself against the cooler trying to stay out of their way but one wasn't looking where he was going and crashed right the fuck into me anyway. If the little brat had wanted to make a stink about it everybody would have been on his side too. God. I really don't like kids. OF COURSE no apology, he and his brother (must have been his brother, they were too similar-looking not to be related) just stared at me like i was from Mars.

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[gmdreia.livejournal.com]

Problem isn't the kids. It's the dopes that have them that don't teach them how to behave, and get all of society's kudos; they earn points just for having proof that they had sex.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

this is true.
someone at LJ is not paying attention. the current ad at the bottom of this page is for disneyland LOL

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I don't get so many kudos as reproachful stares as well as "are they ALL YOURS?", but you do have a point. The problem is that we (and especially you US people) live in a non family friendly society. In the US, you cannot live your kids home when you go shopping, and there is no children area where they can be without bothering others. Parents don't have much of a choice, unless they are rich, which is always a good option anyway :).

My kids spent grocery shopping time either reading in front of the children's bookshelf or reading home alone (starting age six). Nothern Europe is even better, since basically any public place will have a (maybe tiny) children's corner with paper, colors, and some lego pieces. It's incredible how little it takes to make life easier for everyone.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I still feel the need to apologize, because around age three my twins were absolutely awful, and stillwere too little to leave home, couldn't read, and didn't fit in a shopping cart anymore. Luckily the people working in my local supermarket are smart and scolded them severely a couple of times, after which they behaved themselves MUCH better.

Plus, scooters really? WTF? What was that parent thinking? A twenty- or thirty-pound kid running into you is annoying, but a larger one with a scooter can HURT.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

In America no one dares yell at somebody else's kid because that will just get you attacked by the parent of the kid. I told a kid on a bus to stop kicking me and his mom went all apeshit on me. I hate to sound like an old lady yelling get off my lawn but a lot of kids are allowed to do whatever the hell they want now, which they were definitely NOT when I was a kid. i love the kids' books, crayons, etc. in the grocery store idea. I wish they would do that in American grocery stores. except American kids would probably steal them or vandalize something. I rollerskated when i was a kid but no way would I even try to ask my mom if I could rollerskate in the grocery because I knew perfectly well she'd never let me do something like that.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

When they scolded my kids they looked at me in a friendly way, like, we see you need help right now, let me do this for you. It probably helped that they had seen me be more strict with the firstborn and that I was so sleep deprevied I looked like a drunken raccoon. In the US they would have probably assumed I was drunk, LOL.

ETAand so good for you to celebrate Darwin! I'm sure that the annoyance of shopping will be more than balanced by your joy in sharing your cake, you're so generous.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

awwww, aren't you sweet to say that!

[hughville.livejournal.com]

Oh, Heath Bar Cake. Yum.

Why did the management of the grocery store allow those boys to ride scooters in the store? If one of them ran into you, it would be his fault not yours. Teenagers need to learn respect. Where were their parents? You should have reported them. They were wrong, not you. They stared at you because they knew they did something wrong and thought you would report them. Trust me, kids try to act tough and like they don't care, but when they do something wrong they are scared shitless which is why they make such a fuss.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I don't think the management saw them. This grocery store packs a lot of merchandise into a relatively small space (local mom and pop-type store) and there are a lot of blind spots. These kids weren't teenagers, the older one looked nine or ten. I did report them to one lady who works there, I don't know what happened after that.

[remydoodle.livejournal.com]

That cake sounds yummy! Pictures please!!! I would have alerted the store to the hooligans riding around on scooters in the store, its a lawsuit waiting to happen!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I don't have a camera, otherwise i would be happy to take pics. I did alert the store, I don't know what happened afterwards because i got the hell out.

[endgegner07.livejournal.com]

-.-

Hope you didn't get hurt!

Yeah, kids these can be terrible! Was at McDonald's with my brother last Thursday and while we were eating a couple of kids started to throw paper balls at a lady that was sitting at the next table.
The store manager stopped them soon after (after we complained to them and tried to get the kids to stop), but do you think they regretted what they did? Nooo 'course not xD

Meh.

:(

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

yet another reason not to go to McDonalds!