One day, snotty uncontrollable unleashed children will get themselves injured.

[Deja Q]

Whether or not a store has insurance to cover "acts of humanity" is irrelevant; children should not be allowed to run freely in a supermarket. It's downright dangerous, and stupid, even if they were kind enough to loudly laugh and shriek to let anybody in the entire 10,000 square foot store know that they are running around and loudly laughing and therefore deserve everyone else's time and patience.

Thank God, Buddha, Vishnu, and Tina Fey I'm unique in actually remaining observant of what's around me. :scared:

At just the wrong moment, two girls were running in my direction just as I turned the curb to get into that aisle.

Fortunately I saw them in the nick of time, but jeepers creepers, WTF is wrong with some people?

If I was as obtuse (I wish 'distute' was a word) as those girls, they'd have been waffle shaped blobs on the floor. :(

And with the number of security cameras about, one would think the security dudes would have noticed, and call somebody to grab the little animals until "mommy" and "daddy" could be found to chain them back up in their oversized SUV of carbon death.


Oh, here's Tina Fey - am I right or what? :D

[YDogg]

1. too bad they weren't on rolling sneakers.

tina fey is hawt.

[Deja Q]

2. If they were on rolling sneakers,

the pyramid of pasta sauce jars would have turned into a flood of free samples...

and two drowned kids in there somewhere... :(

I'm thankful for small miracles, those rolling sneakers are atrocious in the first place.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

3. As a Mom -

I never, ever let my offspring do anything like you describe - It is offensive. It is, as you point out, dangerous. I have seen other peoples kids do what you describe -- treating every public place like a football field or gymnasium. It is crazy. Also, as a mom, I yell at the kids doing this and have no problem telling the parents, who are always.. 100% of the time on a cell phone, to get off the phone and watch their kids.

And no, I haven't been beatin up. (yet)

[madeline_con]

4. I have a real problem with every public place being taken over

by little untrained cretins like the ones you almost flattened.There is no reason for it. There are so many abysmally BAD parents out there who should be publicly flogged, it astounds me! It seems to me there's very little one can do, unlesss they're prepared to get into a loud argument with mommy or daddy.



:grr: