Watching a bunch of middle-aged teachers trying to learn West African dancing tonight was pretty damn hilarious, I must say. Different syncopation, my ass -- even I could figure out how it went. Or maybe it's just the repressed drummer girl in me.
So, did I tell y'all about taking Mother to get her flu shot a week or so ago? No no, nothing particularly remarkable about it except for these two Mexican women who brought a Satan spawn of hell into the waiting room. Now, I'll point out that we had to be up early to get Mother there for me to work the rest of the day, so clearly my happy wasn't firing on all pistons. But these two started chattering away loudly in Spanish, and the kid started screaming for whatever reason. Well, you'd have thought someone was stabbing me in the head with a spoon, because I'm quite sure my blood pressure went up and I had steam coming out of my ears. I tried shushing them first, and that worked for about two minutes before the brat started howling again. So after giving them the hairy eyeball for awhile, I made a production of getting up out of my seat and moving to the other side of the waiting room, and that shut them up long enough for Mother to have gotten her shot.
The reason I bring this up? Chicago trixie moms are having a hemorrhage at a bakery/coffe shop owner for putting a sign up in his shop that asks them to make sure their children are using their "indoor voices": Lookit.
Now, when I was a wee broad, it was tradition that on Fridays, the folks would pick me up from school, then pick up my grandmother (the one I hated, of course, and who hated me back with equal ardor) and we'd go to Baker's Square when it was known as Poppin' Fresh, or perhaps Steffie & Joe's in Highland, which is now a parking lot on the corner of Highway and Kennedy. So we'd go and enjoy our dinner, and in order to keep me quiet, the folks would allow me to make "lemonade" with the water (read: pour as much salt, pepper, sugar and lemon into my water as possible. It was pretty). Either that or they'd let me bring in a book of some sort, but there was no crawling under the table or looking over the side of the booth at the neighbors or any other such nonsense; if there was, I'd have had a foot up my ass. So would someone like to tell me why it's so offensive to ask these parents to control their children? It's not like the guy is even being a jerk about it, but here are all these women talking about boycotting the joint. I don't think it's too much to ask that if you're child is acting a fool, get him or her out of the situation.*
I carry the Demon seed within me. Look at my nephiews, for god's sake. And yet, I somehow manage (with, of course the Ogwife's most capable assistance) to keep my child civil in public. Good for the owner for trying to make his place nice. Nobody wants to go anywhere there are porch monkeys screaming and yelling all day.
How dare people get all upset when parents allow their spoiled brat children yell, scream, break things, and generally act all out of control?
When did our society break down to the point where store owners feel that they can suggest to people that their children should behave! Who died and put them in charge of anything?
I'm with that Chicago mom who complained that police kicked in her door to grab her son who was alleged to have thrown an old woman in the trunk of a car in an attempt to steal her money from an ATM. Mom said it wasn't right that the police did what they did in kicking in her door and who is going to help her. Right on! How rude of the cops to disturb her like that.
If you don't want to deal with yelling brats or armed carjackers, stay the hell locked up in your house!
If people would just have some common courtesy and keep their damn rules to themselves, this would be a better place filled with more screaming brats and violent teenagers.
(Just in case someone misinterprets the above, it's all a joke!)
People just don't want to claim responsibility for their children. I lived in Chicago for 18 years, and went to private schools. Whenever I was out in public, you had to act respect, but then there were the other kids that were allowed to do as they pleased. It was the age of never tell your child "no". I guess too many kids started to sue their parents or something.
I just love how all of the mommies say the bakery is a place for them to rest and relax, not parent their children. Wtf do they think the rest of us go to the cafe for? I promise it isn't to hear the last scream-fest from their toddler.
Got my car washed on Saturday and then took a trip to the mall.
When I got back to my car, the woman in the BFSUV next to me was sitting in her driver's seat with her door open almost touching my car and her kids were running around the parking lot playing tag.
Needless to say, there were handprints all over my car. The kids scattered when I got close and the mom closed her door. It was a good thing I was in a good mood and my girlfriend was with me or I might have lost it.
They say the pain of losing a child is unbearable, but it's moments like that that cause me to abandon my humanity and believe that some people deserve that pain.
Small child: 50 points,
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