A supermarket story.
The other week. I walked into my local morrisons and straight away I could hear this kid screaming. He was literally inhaling as much air as possible and then exhaling as loud and as high pitched as possible. This was continous for 10 minutes. We're talking a temper tantrum like no other. It filled the entire store. People were walking around glancing at each other as if to say "Oh my god!"

Eventually I spied the little runt. He must have been 6 and was being pushed around in a pushchair by a fat woman. She seemed to be ignoring him and the only one acting oblivious to this childs ear piercing screams.

Ooh good I thought, ignore him, he'll realise this behaviour gets him nowhere.

That was until she wheeled him up to the cake aisle and calmly said "Now which one would you like?" The kid grabs a 4 pack of giant chocolate chip muffin cakes. Opens them and starts munching away.

FAIL!
(Miggyman, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 19:30, 9 replies)

What is it with parents that can't be arsed?
Kids are clever, if they want a muffin and know that screaming bloody murder will get it then they'll do it! I've never had kids so I can't begin to understand what it's like, but shit parenting really gets my back up!
(suicidalducky has too much time on his hands, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 19:55, closed)

On the off-chance
the kid might be 'special'. but all the same, there are still limits as what your spakka kid can get away with under the guise of being mentally handicapped or whatever they call it nowadays. Probably cranially vacant or something.

This is why we need Spaztrak.,
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 21:39, closed)

I did wonder this too when i saw him.
But I dont think he was. Probably just pretending to be special in order to get what he wants :)
(Miggyman, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 23:11, closed)

People steal food in the supermarket all the time
They want some juice? Drink away. Kid wants some sweets or pick and mix? A yoghurt? Fancy a bit of the french stick? Nae bother.

Then they dump the wrappers and half eaten food about the shop anywhere they please.

I hate people who dump food, even if they've not eaten it. It is often in my case things that I need to have sold that night and will have to waste, which makes me look bad at my job. Great, thanks...
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 13 Oct 2008, 23:35, closed)

Ditto!

There are no victimless crimes. I'll be the first to agree that supermarkets tend to be monopolistic exploitative giants who could stand to loose a few pounds, but if you decide you don't want to buy something refrigerated:

PUT IT BACK IN A FRIDGE - ANY FRIDGE, or
HAND IT TO AN EMPLOYEE - ANY EMPLOYEE.

We won't shout at you for changing your mind, but we will get upset if you dump something cold somewhere warm; which means we have to throw it away because it's now 'out of chill', which means our waste figures go up, which means we get grief from HQ because it looks like we're carelessly allowing stock to go 'out of date'.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 2:42, closed)

I saw a few bottles of Dentyl in the freezer the other day
Looked very pretty!
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 2:51, closed)

When my baby-flirts were younger, I found that grabing a string cheese and a small bottle of milk for them to conusume while I was shopping kept them from getting grabby with the merchandise..
or would keep them too distracted to notice I just rushed past the toy aisle. Of course, I always took any half-full or empty containers to the register (til for you all) to pay for with the rest of my shopping. ('tis theft otherwise) But since we only ever used 2 stores, the staff all knew us and were well aware I would pay for anything the kids ate then dispose of the trash properly.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 14 Oct 2008, 6:17, closed)

Luckily mine rarely kick off
Which is good, as they can set off car alarms, but Junior has been known to pull a bottle of Bacardi off the shelf (poor taste there) and let it drop...

Before he was at logical argument stage (i.e behave and you get a go on the Thomas the Tank Engine ride thingy) I just bought a bag of grapes but kept it closed - the puzzle of trying to get them out through the wee hole kept him occupied all the way arounf the store.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 9:08, closed)

Brilliant!
^^
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 14 Oct 2008, 10:23, closed)