Re-Posted from RHU: Slacker Mom

January 16, 2012

SLACKER MOM ALLOWS HELLSPAWN TO DESTROY STORE WHILE WAITING IN LINE

From Compassionate Custy:

I have no job yet (mostly because around here, everybody wants you to have work experience but will not hire you to GIVE you the work experience). I stumbled onto your site through a friend and have come to respect the people who provide services that I once took for granted. I thought I'd share a horrible fellow-custy story.

I was shopping with my mother at our local HellMart today. Pretty standard shopping trip, until the time came to wait in the checkout lane. There, we both became witnesses to one of the most horrific spectacles of modern parenting that either of us have ever seen.

A woman and her obese 8-year-old daughter (heretofore referred to as WhaleMom and Grabby) pulled into the checkout lane on the right of us. Grabby started digging in the cart of the couple waiting in front of them (who they seemed to know, based on their conversation, but still), slamming down on the tops of the tabloid mags in their holders, THROWING HERSELF INTO PEOPLE AND CARTS and singing a song made entirely of random gibberish at the top of her lungs to the entire store. 

WhaleMom's response: "Grabby, don't do that. Come back over here." in a tone of voice that suggested she was answering a telephone survey.

Non-surprisingly, Grabby instead ran 5 checkout aisles to the left of us and disappeared from view. However, we could all still hear her "adorable" singing voice.

WhaleMom's response: "Grabby, you silly-billy, come back." 

5 minutes of singing and horrid slamming noises later, WhaleMom's response changed to asking the couple in front of her, "Can you watch my cart-OH! Never mind, I see her." 

Apparently, "I see her" can now mean "the top of her head is now showing over the aisle wall because she's climbing the candy and tabloid racks."

A few minutes later, Grabby came dancing out with the ONE tabloid printed on super-thin shreddable newsprint in her hand and proceeded to smack everything she passed with it, including carts, tables of merch, people, and racks of candy.

When WhaleMom finally got Grabby to stay at their cart, she actually PRAISED HER for "coming back when she called", put the shredded tabloid back into the tabloid rack, then let her hellspawn kick the couple in front of them's cart until they left.

WHAT THE FUCK PARENT?! Your child is destroying merch and making it hell for all of us other customers, so you continue to let her slam things, try to climb the checkout racks of stuff, and generally be a horrid little monster?! AND YOU GIGGLE ABOUT HOW "SILLY" SHE'S BEING??

Now, I'm only 17, so I don't have as much life experiencewhen parents lose full control of their kids and end up as convicted felon as most of you. My parents raised me to respect property that isn't mine, people who are not me, and the people who work for a living (since I would someday join them).

On behalf of the horrible custys, I am SO sorry.

--Compassionate Custy

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I really dislike parents like this.

I work in a kids department of a large Book store that sells "lifestyles". (Strange I know - Similar to Boarders I assume, but the Canadian Version) Parents have no clue who I am, but assume I am a built in baby-sitter provided by the store. There has been actual incidents where we have had to call the cops, for children left unattended when parents have left the store (which is stand alone and a few blocks from the actual mall) to go shopping in the mall. Then the parents try to blame me and say I agreed to look after their kids.. WTF. I am not pay enough to look after your snotty bratty kids. I am paid min wage and you don`t know me from a whole in a wall, why would you leave your ``precious`` snowflake with me. Grrrr

Posted by: Sunfire | January 16, 2012 at 07:03 AM

On behalf of retail slaves everywhere, I thank you for being horrified... So many people would see (and have seen) such goings-on and thought nothing of it. At least there's hope, when someone DOES notice the wrongness! And at your young age (forgive me, but I have grandsons your age) you give us hope for the future.

Posted by: Bored at the Bookstore | January 16, 2012 at 07:32 AM

I commend your calm and cool demeanor, to be honest. If there's one thing that I can be faulted for, it's my uncanny ability to call people out and make snide comments about people's behaviour. If I had seen this, and I were with my mom, we would have had a LOUD conversation about how many children today are awful, disrespectful brats who need to be taught a lesson by their lazy parents. Or, instead of being passive aggressive, I may have actually said something to the mother.

Posted by: Laughing Barista | January 16, 2012 at 07:53 AM

I've complained to my wife and my son that some people should not have children. I always tell my son (and I try to do this within earshot of the horrible child and/or parent) "I'm glad YOU don't act like that." My son's response? "That kid's an idiot."

I love my boy!

Sometimes though, I admit there's a part of me that wants to see the wild child slip and fall down or piss off the wrong person and get yelled at. I don't want them to get hurt, just embarrassed, along with their idiot parents.

Posted by: NC Tony | January 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM

@Laughing Barista -- you gotta be careful with that. My boyfriend made a "general public comment" like that at Hellmart once and it almost got violent.

Posted by: Music Girl | January 16, 2012 at 11:01 AM

My mom and I kept looking at WhaleMom like, "Are you going to do something...?" and all she did was smile at us and continue chattering about how cute her kid was.

Same trip, I saw a girl looking at anti-aging cream (wearing a shirt for the middle school I went to, no less) screaming at her mom because "I NEEEEED THIS OH MY GOD YOU HAAAAATE ME." I have no idea what is wrong with people. It's so hard not to let my sarcasm take over.

Posted by: CompassionateCusty (OP) | January 16, 2012 at 01:44 PM

You can always tell which kids have never heard the word "NO".

Posted by: WMDKitty | January 16, 2012 at 03:05 PM

Sadly there's not much you can do with different parenting styles. Wait until adulthood when parents lose full control of their kids and end up as convicted felons.

Posted by: Queer Geek | January 16, 2012 at 06:02 PM

@Queer Geek -- then we get to hear them moan about how Snotleigh would NEVER do such a thing, and she's SUCH a GOOD KID, and blah blah blah.

*SMFH*

Parenting licenses, WE NEED THEM.

Posted by: WMDKitty | January 16, 2012 at 07:18 PM

My son wouldn't DARE misbehave HALF that badly. He knows that I just won't tolerate it (and he tends to be quiet in public anyways).

I did tell one child to pick up the mess he was making while standing right next to his father. I was just shopping for some contact lens solution and the little brat was knocking the boxes all over the floor while an employee looked on not knowing what to do about it. The father let me know that I had no right talking to his son and I let the father know that his son had no right destroying product that *I* was here to buy, let alone making extra work for the store employees and that if he didn't start acting like a father, someone will end up taking his child away and do the job for him.

Of course I was have a really, REALLY shitty day at the time and *MIGHT* have over-stepped myself...

Posted by: Bitch Boy | January 16, 2012 at 08:13 PM

*SOME* of that behavior sounds like a kid with serious issues beyond merely bad parenting (Tourette's? autistic spectrum?). I used to know a family with three kids--two were pretty well-behaved, and the third was well-behaved only when medicated to the point of being near-comatose. I felt so sorry for those parents, just because of the looks they got when out with their son.

Posted by: chris | January 16, 2012 at 09:42 PM

Ugh, that sounds like my step-child's bio-mother. And I can see them doing that to.. It's good that you were so calm, 'cause I now I sure as hell wouldn't be.

Posted by: Fedora | January 17, 2012 at 07:40 AM