Just hear me out

You know what I hate? I hate it when people let there kids scream and scream and scream at the store and don't do a damn thing about it. Like the other day; I ran out to the store to grab one quick thing and as I walked through the store I got to listen someone's screaming child. Kids cry; I get it. But seriously, this woman and her kid were making their way through the entire store while that kid was rolling around on the floor in her designer shoes and her Hanna Andersson coat and her little pigtails that supposedly made her cute, screaming bloody freaking murder and the woman with her, decked out in all of a hoodie and yoga pants, did absolutely nothing about it. She kept handing her toys and candy and then, oh, and then...she started rationalizing. With a toddler. Come on now, that child barely speaks english. This woman clearly thought it wasn't really bothering anyone. Lady, just because your kid looks good, that doesn't make her cute. It just makes her outfit cute. And if I know anything, it's that if your kid looks that much better than you, something's gone wrong on your priority list. The woman didn't do a lot of things, but the worst thing she didn't do was dropping what she was doing and taking that freaking kid out of the store, even though I bet it was past that kids' bedtime and they really shouldn't have been there to begin with. That child obviously didn't want to be there, and that woman obviously had no control at all over what was going on.

But you know what I hate the very very most? I absolutely flippin' HATE it when that woman is me.

Comments

[Kelly]

I just found your blog the other day and I'm hooked. I added you to my blogroll. Glad to know I'm not the only mother of a sometimes toddler monster. And, triply glad to know other "bad" mommies exist. Add me to that club. Actually, I'm already the president.
Peace

[dawn224]

The only smart thing my dad ever said was that he thought children should be raised so that other people would actually want to be around them.

[Leslie Dillinger]

Hilarious.

[DMM]

It has been all of us!! I tend to think it's just me and then I hear other "stories" and smile inside thanking the Good Lord it just isn't me.

[molly_g]

Awesome. Whenever I want to get all judgemental about another mom, I think, "Glass Houses..." because I'm so far from perfect, I think I'm clinically imperfect.

Love you.

[aimee / greeblemonkey]

Yup, been in both places, for sho. ;)

[Jessica]

Been there done that have the t-shirt. It happens to the best of us.