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Passionflower, I live in Tucson, Arizona, right in the middle of town. And I did try to warn her.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 7:46 PM
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At least you spoke to the mother about it and tried to wake her up.
What area do you live in?
posted by
Passionflower
on September 11, 2005 at 7:20 PM
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grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
posted by
majroj
on September 11, 2005 at 4:54 PM
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sic 'em, maj.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 12:54 PM
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cynthia, and she will either learn fast or die, huh?
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 12:54 PM
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MayB, I hope that she did. I tried to give her the 'feel' for the moment of
reality, to take with her.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 12:53 PM
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deks, I guess you hafta hit the 'mat with four kids like I have done to
understand that you can't separate whites and darks and know when to use bleach and when to empty a washer and fill a dryer and just which washers and dryers are yours, while controlling four bouncing balls, before you can understand her frustration and anger. I used to have 23 washers and dryers going at one time some days. I wouldn't have gotten angry with you, I would have told you to toss my little angel into that dryer and to hit "30 minutes" for me.
No, they weren't official fellows, but those kind of fellows who either lived with their moms too long (one was about 48) and the other looked like the kind who looked into car windows in the parking lot to see what might be removed. Seedy and 'different', ya know?
Thanks for reading.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 12:52 PM
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Perhaps myddryn has figured it out. Maybe the guys were Children's Service
checking on whether or not the kid were abandoned there.
Too many women have child at too young an age -- that is part of the problem. I once ran into a woman who wasn't watching her three kids in the laundrymat. When I told her eldest son to stay out of my dryer she got all p.o'd at me. I told her that I wasn't being paid to watch her kids and she told me that she wouldn't pay me -- as though I were so far beneath her that she felt it was an insult to tell me she wouldn't pay me to watch her kids! She took her anger out on the kids, yelling and screaming at them to sit still and be quiet, as though she could punish me for telling her son to stay out of my drier that way.
posted by
WindTapper
on September 11, 2005 at 11:43 AM
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Hell, I sicced the manager on some young people at the local Safeway.
Turned out they were dealing drugs.
It's technique. You sidle up innocently and point out what's happening to the most matronly or intelligent worker and say "They were talking about this sort of thing on Court TV last night. You think the manager might want to know about this?".
Well, actually I flashed my ID.....
posted by
majroj
on September 11, 2005 at 9:11 AM
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Benzinha, I'm with Maj on this one.
Inform the manager. The problem is, with these kinds of parents, this child will be at risk her whole life, till she is old enough to fend for herself.
posted by
Cynthia
on September 11, 2005 at 8:03 AM
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Let's hope that the woman thought about it later even if she was not prepared t admit it to you.
posted by
Azur
on September 11, 2005 at 2:18 AM
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but maj, you know how we people don't like to rock the boat. I thought
that maybe I was being paranoid, but the men truly were not looking at candies, not picking up packages, not checking prices, but WHAT if I were wrong?!? How embarrassing for everyone.
Better embarrassed that regretful, tho', no? Next time, the manager.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 2:13 AM
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Screw momma dearest. Tell the store manager.
Last thing they want is s something bad in their store.
posted by
majroj
on September 10, 2005 at 9:35 PM
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Benz,
Wished I was kidding about this. Excuses from parents ranged from "They were getting on my nerves." to "I was only gone long enough to find some pot." to "It was too good of a party to pass up." to "Well, I'm seeing someone on the side."....... And people want to know why Children's Services can't keep up with the case loads or why the counselors quit within a year. I'm childless, but I guarantee if I had kids they would be physically attached with a leash or sitting in the buggy when I went shopping. Shadow
posted by
Keshet
on September 10, 2005 at 8:52 PM
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benzinha--NO WAY! Too many children disappear from right next to their
parents--no less half way across a store--for you to be considered paranoid. I think you were dead on.
posted by
Renigade
on September 10, 2005 at 8:40 PM
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myddrin, you're kidding !!?!?!? Amazing, stupidity at its greatest.
What are they trying to do, have fewer and fewer children to worry about as they get taken away by strangers? I don't understand anyone anymore.
posted by
benzinha
on September 10, 2005 at 8:38 PM
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renigade, or was I just being too paranoid? I don't know anymore.
posted by
benzinha
on September 10, 2005 at 8:36 PM
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ca88andra, I know, I know!!! My tummy hurts about this whole thing.
posted by
benzinha
on September 10, 2005 at 8:35 PM
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There's a lot of stupid people in this world.
I worked at a Super Wal-Mart and it never failed that at least on Friday or Saturday night a parent (or both parents) would send their young children (as young as five or six) into the store, leave to go party, ect. and return hours later to pick up the kids. It became so bad we finally had to pay a special guard to monitor the toy section who could immediately notify Children's Services. Shadow
posted by
Keshet
on September 10, 2005 at 8:26 PM
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I don't even let my children go in the front yard alone. That's
ridiculous! Thank God you were there...
posted by
Renigade
on September 10, 2005 at 8:14 PM
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I can't understand a mother who would leave a child as young as that alone anywhere. Even if she was in the same store, it makes no difference. I even worry about my boys now when they go out and they are much older than that!
posted by
Ca88andra
on September 10, 2005 at 8:11 PM
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