stui magpie wrote:3.Parents who can't control their kids.
OK, if you want to raise your kids in a nurturing way, without giving them restrictive rules and letting them experience life for themselves, that's nice. Move to a hippy commune. If you let your kids run riot in your house, grabbing everything; breaking things; running around and screaming, I'm happy for you just don't invite me around. But if you take them out of the house, have some respect for all the other people there by NOT letting them run around grabbing things; knocking things over screaming and generally behaving like some demented animal that's just been let out of a cage. And when little Timmy IS running around under my feet like a headless chook, standing there saying in a mild, quiet voice, "Timmy, come here please. No, Stop that please" ISN'T good enough. Don't take them out unless they're trained. I do believe in Corporal Punishment but since I don't like hitting other people's kids, keep them under control or I'll smack YOU.
This is the one that gets me Mate. As a shop owner, I cant stand when children are ran-sacking my shop and then for the parents to pretend that somehow they didn't notice or see it.
Somehow they miss the fact that their children are throwing their toys against my shop window. And then to cap it off, when you tell their kids off about it because the parents refuse to, you get from them "Well you dont offer good Customer Service, so I wont be coming back here"
Thank God for that for the lousy $5 you spend! It just aint worth it at times!
Lets just say that Society, through their lack of respect and common courtesy have made me a very grumpy person and the ultimate grumpy person.