Lady, it is just too cute the way you are in your own little bubble, oblivious to the fact that there are other people in the world. Forcing others to wait behind you while your precious two year old plays with the elevator buttons. Guess what, people are in a hurry, people have a right to travel efficiently. Bad enough that the elevator often takes 3 to 5 minutes or more to show up. You slowing it down with your kid is more than I could take. Blocking people again when you got on to do the same thing was close to unbearable. Wake up and realize there are other people in the world and show a little respect or consideration. —Fed up with people.
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.
You’re gonna have one tough time out in public since you seem to have the patience of a gnat. So you get somewhere a few minutes later – big fucking woof. Just because you’re in a fired-up hurry doesn’t mean other people are. Speaking of bubbles, maybe you should get yourself one.
I have to agree with the OP on this. People are often in a hurry, and Christ only knows what floor button the kid is going to push.
I hate it when parents think their kids are the centre of the universe. I was in the adult only changing room at the Sportsplex when someone brought their fucking snot nosed kid in from the pool to use the washroom. The sign clearly states 21 years and older only. But you can’t tell a person with a little kid who needs to pee that they’re not supposed to be there because then you look like the bad one. Fucking little kid slowly walked through the changing room while staring at the naked people, who were obviously uncomfortable but didn’t want to say anything to this person.
Kinda torn on this one. TT’s “Slow down and don’t sweat it” is good advice in any scenario. But, is there anything more infuriating than the parent who seems to truly believe that the world is their daycare centre, and the rest of us are unpaid volunteers? Not to mention that some kids never outgrow the notion that everything in the world was created for their personal amusement, as our burgeoning prison popluation would seem to indicate.
More parents need to realize that no one finds their children nearly as adorable as they do.
I used to work at a pizza shop and I would often see parents send their young kids that could barely even speak into the shop to pay for and bring out the orders. It was a lengthy and frustrating process – especially at dinner time when there was a rush.
Or they would get their kids to call in with an order and the kid barely understood what was happening and would wind up having to go back and forth between trying to converse with me and their mother the whole time.
Dear parents: Don’t waste everyone’s time. Thanks.
sadly, I also would be sighing on the outside and boiling on the inside as well.
…can’t bring myself to verbally berate a child I don’t know.
yet.
Were this to be commonplace, I don’t think I would have much of an issue to adapt
and call the snot-nosed-wee-twat-weasel out on being a douche…
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Thank you Miss pain!! hope you’re having a good Friday!
I like kids, kids are funny and great and cute. Parents on the other hand are the ones with the problem. No kid should be calling in a pizza order. My little guy will press the elevator button – but at the age of 3 is trained which one so no one is bothered, and no hold up takes place. Kids will always get a little in your way – because they are just in the stage of learning to know better – parents are the real assholes.
“call the snot-nosed-wee-twat-weasel out on being a douche”?
Can’t bring myself to “verbally berate a child I don’t know”?
It sounds like zZZ’s the “snot nosed wee twat weasel”- and not the two-year old baby, who is just behaving the way he has been raised by his parents.
I agree Real Chick..
whoa the fuck up o.p., slow your ass down a bit, and take a few seconds from your precious fucking day to actually see the day.
get off your crackberry or smell phone and take a minute to really have a look see what life is all about. other than that, i think i see some spirits in your future, and i don’t mean the ones from a bottle. although that would probly be coming soon too.
How many times do I have to write this: SPEAK UP!!! Don’t just observe and then run off to the nearest computer to complain to the world in the bitch section. Grow some balls
Hey, Life Sucks, that’s a beautiful attitude. Do you also feel that way when you’re standing in a grocery line of a dozen-odd people with the person at the cashier causing umpteen problems? Do you also feel that way when the guy ahead of you at the ATM decides to pay half a dozen bills? Do you feel that way when your doctor routinely makes you wait half an hour or more – during your work hours – past your appointment time?
I presume you must – the situations are intrinsically the same. I applaud you for your incredible patience and your willingness to waste time cheerfully. I can only assume that you are a unionized government worker.
Wait. Are you suggesting that it’s wrong to push all the elevator buttons and play with the elevator phone every time I get in an elevator? What the hell else is there to do while I’m waiting to get to my floor?
These “soooo cute” shit little kids get the best of me sometimes, too! The other day there was this big fat welfare mom with about half a dozen kids thinking it was “OMG sooo cute” while all her kids got in everyone’s way playing around the entrance to the escalator, which is the only way up to the second floor. Fuck’s sake, lady, control your children and waddle yourself and your kids out of our fucking way! I hope she was going to the hospital to get her tubes tied.
I would just say “please stop your kid”. I guess I’m a heartless bastard but kids and people that condone their bullshit really bake my beans.
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But qp she needs another one to get a raise. Just say “Next person touching the buttons loses a finger”.