Posted: 6/12/2008 3:39:41 AM EDT
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So I am at the tire store, selecting tires for my little gas sipping car... A little boy about 6 years old comes up to me and starts bossing me around.... The kid starts mouthing off to me saying things like..."you think your the boss...." Then he says "your fired"  So I said "I quit" He then proceeds to tell his father "we need new wheels" and points to the fake chrome wheels in the tires...Then the little shit starts grabbing at the tires on display  The little brat then walks over to me, puts his hand in my front pocket, and starts screwing with the cellphone on my belt. His father told him to stop it, but he still continued to do it, and had to be told several times to stop. I understand just being a kid, but this kid was acting like a total spoiled brat. No self control. His father threatened to "light his rear on fire" and I sure hope he did.... My father would have belted my ass for such behavior....Stuff like that was not tolerated epesecially when out in public....oh hell no. |
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Had a little guy like that come up from behind me and try to pull the Kershaw out of my pocket once. (situational awareness, ya know ) I had to gently push his hand away. He really seemed intent on getting the thing. I gave Mom a WTF look, but she didn't seem to care at all. |
NO one cares anymore 
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I already have my almost two year old daughter trained farily well. I started teaching my daughter the concepts of self control shortly after she was born...I started with NO, and then putting stuff back where she found it. I can count the number of times I have spanked her on one hand. She knows her parents run the show. I make her walk when I go shopping.....absolutely no riding in the shopping cart....She has to learn to control herself...and she needs the excercise. For the most part, she keeps her hands to herself...and will even stand hands behind her back at parade rest while I look for stuff on the shelf....if she goes off course, and starts grabbing stuff, I tell her NO and it stops. The point is, I want my kid to learn to be a respectfull adult....and it is not hard to teach...requires minimal effort. |
Yeah, until you touch the little bastard. I think the problem is that not everyone finds their children as "darling" as they do. |
I don't think many of us would even THINK of doing that when were kids. |
| Kids are always pushing the boundries, we try to keep our kids on the right path (7 & 9). There are so many outside the home influences from parents who just let them run amok. As well all the child sitcoms like Hanna Montana just undermind the crap out of anything you try to teach them IMO. The kids are treated like little adults & think they have the right to make deals with their parents when the don't get what they want. Pfffff this is a dictatorship not a democracy. |
You're right! And that was back in the days when you could get your ass beat in public and some nosey do-gooder didn't call the cops. |
I wouldn't have tried it...especially with my father...oh Lord no
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The threat did not seem to have an effect on the kid....so no, I don't think he went through with it...unfortunately. |
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Alot of parents don't realize that kids are for life. If you parent for 18 years, you will have a friend for life. but if you are their friend for 18 years you will be a parent for life. Parents have a responsibility to help kids live a happy and fruitful life and self-control is the greatest gift, you can give a child. |
And there's the rub. My boys are far from perfect...but neither of them would have touched a person they didn't know nor spoken to them like that. Pass gas and giggle? Yes...but I am working on that. |
My mom and dad wouldn't have threatened it - they would have done it, right then and there. |
I think you know what to do and failed. First you should have BLADED at a 45 degree angle. Then you should have said in a command voice "DONT TOUCH MY CELL PHONE" and Lastly drink up the excitement of the adrenaline rush. And "gas sipping car"? I don't care how expensive gas is, econoboxes are still not cool. 
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...and you didn't grab his hand, pull it out of your pocket, and tell him "That's not acceptable behavior, son."???? Why not?
Same question as above. When a child invades your personal space and starts doing things like putting his hands IN YOUR POCKETS you have every right to stop him and firmly rebuke him. If his parents actually gave a damn they would have dropped everything in their hands and stopped him from pulling that sort of nonsense. |
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Yea, going to the WalMart always makes me wonder about parents. You'll always manage to hear first and then see, the person pushing the cart with a 5 year old standing in the middle of it screaming and throwing crap, while the adult is completely oblivious to it. My mom would have whipped me stupid. My mother tells a great story of when I was a kid around 5 and walked up to a lady in a grocery store and told her not to buy her child that breakfast cereal because it was full of sugar and bad for you. . Apparently that woman looked at my mother with a great WTF look. My mom just shrugged and said, "What...you know he's right".
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I don't know what's up with people these days, but they seem utterly unable to deal with dogs or little kids. Both are allowed to run wild. Parenting is complex and difficult when the kid is 14, 6'2 and 240 pounds. ...it's not really that hard to keep them under control when they are THREE. Dogs are even easier, but people don't seem to be able to manage that either. Folks look at me like I'm some sort of friggin' wizard because I can control my dogs without a leash. |
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5:15 AM est: Watering plants beside house and a 15yr old walks by pulling up his new age BB shorts. I'm watching and waiting for the shorts to fall off. The little shit says: What the F*#k you looking at old man. I waved and said come over here. He ranted and ranted but would not come over. I guess he didn't think it was funny that his shorts did not fit! America's future leaders for all to see!
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+1 I've watched some parents move through a grocery store like they were in a coma. All the while their kids are knocking things off shelves, opening bags of food, and screaming like they own the place. |
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I remember pulling some stunt as a little kid in K-Mart. My mom beelined to the edge of the store ( still in full sight of anyone walking by) and made me drop trow. She proceeded to wear my bear butt out. Dad was worse. He would just tell me to go get in the car, and once home hand me a rag to put in my mouth and the belt would come off. It wasn't fun but it was effective. Today they'd both be in jail for child abuse. If they hadn't done it, I'd probably be in jail for all sorts of crap, I was headed down the wrong path, and they yanked my ass back. More directly, what rights do you have when someone else's kid passes into your personal space. How do you get them to back off in no uncertain terms, but not end up in jail? |
I just look at them like this...  and sort of growl under my breath, they usually back off. |
You don't hit them or hurt them. If a kid has his hand in your pocket, you are well within your rights to remove his hand from your pocket immediately and firmly tell him that it is unacceptable behavior. Don't strike the child or smack his hand or anything like that. Remain firm but PROFESSIONAL. Don't get into an argument with the kid OR with his jackass parent if they are bleeping stupid enough to get offended. |