Ah, those wonderful, no-class folks, and their kids.

treeguy64

treeguy64

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OK, just got back from shopping. The whole time I was there, about a half hour, there was this horrific, ultra-loud, screaming sound every three to four minutes. I thought that some delivery conveyor belt needed oil, badly. I asked Janet what she thought it was. She said, "I think it's a kid!" "No way! How could any parents allow their kid to carry on like that?" We kept shopping, kept being disturbed. Terrible!

As we approached the checkout, I asked an employee, directing the floor, what that awful sound was. "It's a little boy, and his parents are coming up to the checkout, now." I looked over, about six lanes away: There was the little brat sitting in a cart, his dad was pushing it. My anger was tempered by the fact that his mom was in a electric riding cart, from the store. A little girl was walking with mom.

Sure enough, the kid kept up his annoying vocalizing. I had to control my urge to yell, "Shut your brat the hell up!" Then, a brief respite: Mom couldn't control her cart. She drove it right into the brat's cart!. Yay! That shut him up!

After they checked out, I saw another great thing: The little girl started running from mom. "Disabled" mom got out of her power cart, chased down her daughter, at lightning speed, scooped her up, and kept running, right out the door, behind her husband and brat son. She left the power cart right in the middle of the aisle, where everyone has to exit the store. Nice, what!

Great idea: Let's all take screaming brats to large stores, let's let them carry on while we remain unconcerned, and let's use power carts to get around the store, just because we're lazy losers! Never mind the folks who actually need those power carts, right? We're entitled!

The brat will grow up to be one of the entitled poor, lacking any self-control, and will, most likely, be a prison inmate by the time he's eighteen, if not sooner, seeing as he has such fine parents to guide him through his childhood years.

(Anticipating negative responses: Yes, maybe this three year old brat is Autistic, has Tourette's, or some other medical condition that manifests in those periodic, ultra-loud shrieks. I get that. Yeah, maybe mom was just so tired. OK. I guess we can make up excuses to excuse the inexcusable. Sure, OK, whatever.....)
 

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Hearing aids are a great thing. I just stick them in my pocket at moments like that. It's like having a mute button on life.

As an aside, as I was entering our local grocery today I noticed a sign on the handicap cart - "maximum weight of 500 pounds". 500 pounds? Seriously?
 
Diversity is the spice of life?
Haha. You sound like my husband.
He cannot stand screaming kids.
It drives him nuts.

Yes! Shopping takes a certain amount of tolerance of others and some people can really push those boundaries
 

Keesha said:
Diversity is the spice of life?
Haha. You sound like my husband.
He cannot stand screaming kids.
It drives him nuts.

Yes! Shopping takes a certain amount of tolerance of others and some people can really push those boundaries
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Yep! I have to say, though, that this wasn't just a screaming kid. This was a kid who, with great periodicity, voiced the loudest, piercing, shrieking sound I have ever heard. It was otherworldly, absolutely no lie, no exaggeration. If you've ever heard a Howler Monkey, whose vocalizing can be heard across the entire area of an enormous zoo, then you have some idea what this little brat sounded like.
 
treeguy64, I agree with you completely. There are no acceptable excuses. Sadly, in addition to what you witnessed, we live in a time when smash and grab is now acceptable, taking what you want from a retail store and just walking out is now acceptable, defecating on public streets is now acceptable. Sit back, relax and watch as our beloved country turns back the hands of time (way back) :mad:. Don...
 
I remember when my daughter and husband brought her first baby to the restaurant for my Birthday....For an half an hour, their baby
was sleeping....After that the baby started crying, very loud....My son in law picked him up and brought the baby in the car....He told us
take your time and eat....He stayed in the car not to make a fuss in the restaurant...When we started desert, son in law came in the
restaurant with a calmed baby, smiling....He then ate his dessert and my daughter held the baby....The baby now is a young 18 yr old in
college...
 
treeguy64 said:
Yep! I have to say, though, that this wasn't just a screaming kid. This was a kid who, with great periodicity, voiced the loudest, piercing, shrieking sound I have ever heard. It was otherworldly, absolutely no lie, no exaggeration. If you've ever heard a Howler Monkey, whose vocalizing can be heard across the entire area of an enormous zoo, then you have some idea what this little brat sounded like.
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Oh yes we most certainly have heard the craziest high pitched squeal which didn’t relent in the least. The parents seemed to think ignoring the temper tantrum was the best solution so they pushed this wailing kid around the store. Never mind all the other people it might annoy.
They couldn’t give a @$&#!

It’s a wonder more kids aren’t taken away from some parents. Check this video out. Watch it until the very end. The van stops and comes back to get the kid. Incredible.

 
gennie said:
I've never thought shopping had to be a family affair. Two parents - one stay home with the kids, the other do the shopping. But that's just me
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With a kid like this one, I concur. Normally, I liked shopping with my family, but I had daughters who were so well behaved that strangers would come up to us, to compliment them.
 
Keesha said:
Oh yes we most certainly have heard the craziest high pitched squeal which didn’t relent in the least. The parents seemed to think ignoring the temper tantrum was the best solution so they pushed this wailing kid around the store. Never mind all the other people it might annoy.
They couldn’t give a @$&#!

It’s a wonder more kids aren’t taken away from some parents. Check this video out. Watch it until the very end. The van stops and comes back to get the kid. Incredible.

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This kid wasn't having a tantrum. That was a very strange factor, here. Instead, he sat there, looking around, and would then emit his shriek. After that, he sat quietly, until the next shriek, a few minutes later. That gave me the idea about Autism or Tourette's.
 
treeguy64 said:
This kid wasn't having a tantrum. That was a very strange factor, here. Instead, he sat there, looking around, and would then emit his shriek. After that, he sat quietly, until the next shriek, a few minutes later. That gave me the idea about Autism or Tourette's.
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And that’s the thing; we don’t know. As an observer we can only speculate. I think it’s hard being in our modern world without being judgmental. It’s impossible for me.

Autism or Tourette syndrome has symptoms like you describe. It must be so difficult caring for someone like this. What is the right thing to do?
These tiny souls need a chance to be integrated into society like anyone else.

Being a witness to some human behaviour can be startling to say the least.
 
treeguy64 said:
This kid wasn't having a tantrum. That was a very strange factor, here. Instead, he sat there, looking around, and would then emit his shriek. After that, he sat quietly, until the next shriek, a few minutes later. That gave me the idea about Autism or Tourette's.
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It could very well be a neurological issue. After my nephew was vaccine injured and regressed into autism, our family has gotten to know so many people in the autism community who have children that make irritating noises in public. And there's absolutely nothing they can do about it other than not take the child outside of the home which is what most try to do for the public and the child's sake. Usually when a child with autism screeches or wails, it's because they can't cope with the sensory bombardments of being in stores.

The family you describe ...who can say? The kid has a problem for some reason. There are obviously family of origin issues, and he may have neurological issues as well. If he does, they're doing him no kindness in taking him into a high sensory environment when one could've stayed home. If it's just a family of origin issue and he's neurotypical kid acting out, then your prison prediction might sadly come to be.
 
treeguy64 said:
I'm so sorry. I enjoyed some of your posts, but I cannot go on reading them, in view of what you just posted, as above. Again, sorry.
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I wish I had the luxury of ignoring it. There was a post-vaccine fever and within two weeks he lost from 20+ words to one which was "hey." Within two weeks a child that would look us in the eye and laugh and smile started sitting in the corner for hours on end staring at the wall and would avoid eye contact at all times.

I post about it because I hope that eventually enough people will become concerned enough to call for meaningful vaccine safety studies of the current ever burgeoning schedule. It will take a lot of people because pharmaceutical companies have vaccine injury liability immunity and throw the most lobbying dollars at our government of all industries. Something about the current vaccine schedule is damaging a lot of children. I suspect in my nephew's case it was autoimmune genetics. And once it touches you, you learn about so many others. There are enough anecdotal cases to prompt hypothesis for studies in several directions. That's the way the scientific method works; scientists don't pull hypothesis out of the sky. Something is observed enough and it prompts study. That is what we pray will happen, and that findings will then result in screening for at risk children.
 
There is a time in the late afternoon when there are always children crying in Walmart. One starts and another joins in, then another, and another. All across the store~in stereo, a chorus of tired, hungry children screaming and crying. The mothers don't seem to have enough experience with toddlers to understand that they have reached their limit.
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I accidentally found myself shopping there at the wrong time one day. As I was checking out, I said to the older lady cashier, "I didn't know it was crying time".
To which she replied, "It's ALWAYS crying time here!"
 
Well, I must have a high tolerance level. I love screechy, noisy, giggly kids. It means they're having more fun than I had when I was a kid.
 
We tried to teach our 2 girls how to act from day one. When eating out and one started crying or fussing, one of us would take her out to calm her and not bother other people. Of course in those days we did not take week old babies everywhere with us. They stayed home with the spouse or a grandmother that was visiting. It was quite common for my mother or MIL to come and stay a day or afternoon so we could go grocery shopping, get a much needed nap or shower. That's one reason I shop online most of the time. Besides not knowing if a shooter is around, you don't have the small children and babies running around. I walk with a cane and many times I avoid parents looking at their phones and small children under age 5 running around me. Its better for me to shop online and have things delivered if possible
 
My sister is disabled and required one of those riding carts. My blood boils when I see a woman (or man) like Tree Guy described above use one of those carts while my sister has to stand with her two canes while we wait for one to become available. I usually go see if I can scour up one in the parking lot or another entrance, or I haunt the checkout lines and ask a person leaving if I may follow them out to their car and bring the cart back for my sister or we just give up and go to another store.

Those carts are for disabled people who cannot shop any other way NOT for tired people or lazy people!
 
I have heard small children screech and yell. It drives me nuts. My wife thinks they are seeking attention. If that's true, well, they certainly got mine. I try to ignore it because maybe they do have some physical ailment, but it's a hard thing to do. Generally, I cut the shopping trip short just to get out of the store.

Most people are not aware of this and I hope I'm not opening a can of worms, but when I was still flying and we had such a child onboard, the F/A would attempt to quiet the child or maybe re-seat the child. If they were connecting at the plane's destination, they may or may not be boarded. I am sure that most people have read where airlines have not allowed parents with screaming kids to board. It's terrible to be stuck in a tube with a few hundred other people and one screaming child.
 
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My wife & I raised 3 kids over the years. Whenever one of them started acting up because he wanted some candy, my wife would take him to the car while I finished the check-out process. That was "the old days". Don't even get me started on the crap I have seen over the last few years with those millennials. I have seen women starring at their stupid phones while the kids is screaming his head off. I have seen women texting in restaurants while their little kid is pulling on mommy's sleeve for attention. How these kids will grow up & what they will be like I hate to guess. Glad I wouldn't be around.
 
yes oh boy than can bloody scream ok -- parents like to switch off or totally thick to let a child do it '
xmas or not - I had boys and never ever did mine scream when I took them out - and thats the truth /
its so off putting for people when their trying to shop 'makes u wanna walk out the store ..
 
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