Other people's kids

[Trip]

Originally Posted by the chi

I have actually had a child walk up and kick me out of nowhere, in a Dr.'s office no less. Thankfully the mom was mortified and I refrained from smacking the strange child, but that memory reinforces why I dont care for most children.

Yes, call me a horrible hag, but I dont like about 95% of them. I agree they should be seen and not heard, except in certain circumstances and there is nothing guaranteed to drive me more insane than being somewhere with screaming, unruly children.

If I'm at the park, or a playground, I dont mind, but if Im in a restaurant or the grocery store I dont want your ankle biter running around my table, hollering for attention or crying loudly, running in front of my basket, or bouncing off of me or darting in front of me, and I definitely dont want to hear it from 3 aisles away! GO OUTSIDE ALREADY!

Whew. Fires me up. I admit it, I'm going to be a friggin Hitler as a parent, but you can be damned sure my child wont be annoying anyone other than me!

Ironically, I'm the person that children want to walk up to and be held by. I think its like cats. If you dont want to be around them, they force themselves on you...and of course the parents think its sooooo cute.

These are the same parents that lost their kid in the first place, it found me, and they were okay with letting a total stranger haul their kid around while they did their shopping. It's happened, in a mall of all places. And we wonder why children are the way they are...

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.

[the chi]

Originally Posted by Trip

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.

I totally agree, however this only applies to assholes who want to do this. I dont force my pets or my love of pets on other people (other than not letting people torment or kill things when Im around), so why are you telling me this?

Edit to add: My pets are my children, and really as close as I ever want to be to kids, but they mind, and do what they are told, they dont bark and bother the neighbors, they dont make a nuisance of themselves, other than Abby when she wants kisses, and I make sure my babies are welcome before I take them anywhere.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by the chi

I have actually had a child walk up and kick me out of nowhere, in a Dr.'s office no less. Thankfully the mom was mortified and I refrained from smacking the strange child, but that memory reinforces why I dont care for most children.

Yes, call me a horrible hag, but I dont like about 95% of them. I agree they should be seen and not heard, except in certain circumstances and there is nothing guaranteed to drive me more insane than being somewhere with screaming, unruly children.

If I'm at the park, or a playground, I dont mind, but if Im in a restaurant or the grocery store I dont want your ankle biter running around my table, hollering for attention or crying loudly, running in front of my basket, or bouncing off of me or darting in front of me, and I definitely dont want to hear it from 3 aisles away! GO OUTSIDE ALREADY!

Whew. Fires me up. I admit it, I'm going to be a friggin Hitler as a parent, but you can be damned sure my child wont be annoying anyone other than me!

Ironically, I'm the person that children want to walk up to and be held by. I think its like cats. If you dont want to be around them, they force themselves on you...and of course the parents think its sooooo cute.

These are the same parents that lost their kid in the first place, it found me, and they were okay with letting a total stranger haul their kid around while they did their shopping. It's happened, in a mall of all places. And we wonder why children are the way they are...

My hero. For real.

[CrazyKell]

Originally Posted by Trip

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.

I much prefer dogs to children any day of the week.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

I much prefer dogs to children any day of the week.

Every day of the week.

[z06boy]

Originally Posted by Trip

Apply all this to dogs and you will see how the non pet owners look on people who want to force their pets on the rest of the world. Except one is a pet and the other is a human being.

This is true

[Trip]

Originally Posted by the chi

I totally agree, however this only applies to assholes who want to do this. I dont force my pets or my love of pets on other people (other than not letting people torment or kill things when Im around), so why are you telling me this?

Edit to add: My pets are my children, and really as close as I ever want to be to kids, but they mind, and do what they are told, they dont bark and bother the neighbors, they dont make a nuisance of themselves, other than Abby when she wants kisses, and I make sure my babies are welcome before I take them anywhere.

I am just saying, a lot of people don't want pets places just the same as you don't want kids making a ruckus. I don't mind and like dogs. I absolutely hate cats and most other animals. I really hate finding cats on my property because their irresponsible owners let them wander the neighborhood.

I wasn't saying your pets are a nuissance or a problem, just that many people feel that way about pets.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by gavilan

No kidding! I was having breakfast with my roommate at a bar and there was a family sitting next to us with their kids screaming joyfully and walking around and stuff.

Really? A bar??

Granted, the place opens up for breakfast and lunch and obviously admits families and what not... but I would think that it would be so much better to take your little ones to places that don't have tables all sticky with beer from the previous night... and patrons that are, most likely, nursing a hangover.... lol

Originally Posted by azoomm

I loathe seeing kids at bars. We went to a local sportsbar for UFC one night - there was one family by the bar [standing room only] with their kids in the thick of it. The little girl had her hands on her ears and was crying.

I made a point to tell her - "You're a great example of a bad mommy" She didn't like me, but they stayed. Unreal.

Depends on the bar, depends on the time of day. One of my favorite things when I was a kid was going to the bar with my old man for dinner. I would do the same with my kids - bar for breakfast/lunch/dinner OK... Past 8pm on a Friday night, during a UFC match, or some other drinking-oriented event... not cool. Bars have video games and many times the best damn food at a good price you can find - as long as there isn't any rowdy drinking going on, I say let the kids in.

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

The neighbour's knuckle-dragging teenage thug and his friend ripped off two bikes from another neighbour, who was knocking at their door at 11:00pm saying, "I've got a problem with your son. Those are my kids' bikes." A couple of weeks later the same two condom failures broke into the townhouse next door to me and trashed it. Fortunately he was too stupid to deny this, and now seems to be spending his days at a foster home.

The new neighbours, who just moved in on the opposite side of me from the trashed unit, let their kids use the whole neighbourhood as their toybox. I have to watch out for their kids who dart out from between parked cars in the lot, and their stuff which can be found laying in the lot, on the sidewalk, in the middle of the courtyard, in my front yard, where I park my motorcycle...... I suppose that they come by it naturally though, because their parents are slowly annexing the whole courtyard as their patio.

Just throw their toys away. Shit is in MY yard, it's mine... and I don't want my pink bicycle with the flowery basket on it any more.

[the chi]

Ah, I got ya. Thought you were making a dig at the way I treat my babies.

I totally agree with you tho. On all counts.

As for the loose running cats? Irresponsible of the pet owners. Have an issue with them getting on your car? Hook up an electric fence set up to the battery and let them try then. My FIL did that...never had another problem with the cats getting on his nice vehicles.

As far as the kids thing goes...here's another one for ya. I used to manage commercial property, with a brand new nice play area and swiming fountain. Parents and nannies use to drop the kids off, and LEAVE the shopping center. Childrens Services, yes please, send an officer. And these folks didnt think there was anything wrong with letting their 8 year old watch the 5 and 3 year old. ALONE. Same folks who bitched when I had to shut down the water fountain, because they allowed their child to CRAP in it. Thus violating every helath code possible for my water park. I think I dislike the parents as much as the children.

Screw people. Give me animals any day.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Clay

Call me weird... I love kids. 1 out of 10 may be truly unruly and it's the parent's fault, not the kid's. Children are the only true innocence the world knows. They aren't stuck on pathetic societal rules stating you can't run and scream...and have fun any dang time you want to. So let them have fun, soon enough they'll be grown up and cranky like the rest of us...complaining about other parents' kids.

This is a good post. A lot of parents actually believe they have good children and they don't do these things and are equally disgusted at other children doing these things. It's a parents bias.

A lot of it is just naturally being a kid and people who aren't around kids a lot aren't use to their activity and it annoys them. There are some places I can tolerate people's disgust of kids being kids, because some parents should realize they shouldn't bring their kids to certain locations because a kids attention span is not long enough to tolerate that type of boredom, but there are others where these people need to shut the fuck up and deal with kids being kids because it's a public place and they shouldn't expect privacy or quiet.

Just remember when you get mad at a kid being obnoxious, there was someone that was equally, maybe more so, disgusted at you when you were a child.