Today, I overheard a lady tell her child in a store that, “If you don’t stop crying, I’ll tell that guy over there to take you away.” She was referring to me. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got bitched out by some lady in a Walmart because I looked at her funny while she was on the phone, loudly bragging about "slapping the shit out of" her kids. FML
Today, at the mall, I ran into a lost, crying little girl. It was my best friend's daughter. She recognized and clung on to me. As I called her dad, some nosy lady snatched her from me and caused a scene, screaming, "KIDNAPPER!" As I got apprehended, her claim was she heard me say, "If you still want to see her…" FML
Today, while in line at the supermarket, I told the lady behind me that she had a cute baby. She shot me a disgusted look and straight up accused me of being a pedophile. FML
Today, I waved at a baby while standing in line in a store. It started screaming. Its mom looked over in mild concern and gave me a disturbed glare before moving to the next checkout counter over. FML
Today, I took my child to the park. Having been there an hour, another mum came up to me and we started talking. She then told me that one kid had been harassing her children, pointing to my child. When she asked which one was mine I pointed to a random kid. It was hers. FML
Today, while waiting in line at a store, a toddler behind me was throwing a major meltdown while his father yelled at him, giving me a migraine. I turned to the woman behind me and said, "Can you believe this kid? I feel sorry for his mother." Turns out the woman was his mother. FML
Today, I was in a shopping centre when a little girl was running up and down the aisles. She started to fall over so I put my hand out to catch her. Her mother then ran up to me and screamed about me 'touching her child' so loud that everyone could hear. FML
Today, I was out walking my dog, when a lady called out to me asking, “Is that a boy or a girl?” Assuming she meant the dog, I told her that he was a boy. When I turned away, I heard her say to her kid, “I was talking about the person walking the dog, but whatever,” then audibly laughing. FML
Today, a 7-year-old girl came up to me and told me to go fuck myself. I told her to watch her language or else I'd tell her parents. Her mom happened to be nearby and actually heard the conversation; she came up to me and told me to go fuck myself as well. FML
Today, I was standing in line when the lady in front of me stepped out of the line. I made a comment about how rude she was for doing that, and she immediately burst into tears because she “didn’t know it was rude to do that.” A grown woman. FML
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Inkoseh 33
Absolutely not. If I am at wits end, I will leave the ******* store with my kids. I'm not going to scare the shit out of them by making them think strangers are all out to take them away. That's absolutely horrible and selfish parenting. At wits end may be me overly yelling at them and getting them in trouble in the heat of the moment, but not threatening of being removed and taken from the family. That's ******* psychotic. This was all a reply to the person above, their sentence makes very little sense at all in the first place and they've OK'd the mom threatening 'removal from the family' because she's had a 'rough day'. That's not what you threaten to a child. Ever.
John Raymond Matheney 6
you people are all terrible parents lol, you can reason with kids some times by "talking things out," add in stress from life, work, family, the pandemic, ect. it can being you to wits end, you have no idea what she went through that day. give her a break
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Yummi_913 18
Holy **** I hope somebody takes the kid away to a better home!
Wadlaen 24
So, you almost had a kid today?😮
rainbowdonnareed 18
I would have taken said child gone to the manager and called 911. Or at least gotten her license number. Somehow my aunts "I'll give you something to cry about seems normal now
John Raymond Matheney 6
you people are all terrible parents lol, you can reason with kids some times by "talking things out," add in stress from life, work, family, the pandemic, ect. it can being you to wits end, you have no idea what she went through that day. give her a break
Inkoseh 33
Absolutely not. If I am at wits end, I will leave the ******* store with my kids. I'm not going to scare the shit out of them by making them think strangers are all out to take them away. That's absolutely horrible and selfish parenting. At wits end may be me overly yelling at them and getting them in trouble in the heat of the moment, but not threatening of being removed and taken from the family. That's ******* psychotic. This was all a reply to the person above, their sentence makes very little sense at all in the first place and they've OK'd the mom threatening 'removal from the family' because she's had a 'rough day'. That's not what you threaten to a child. Ever.
ghostinflames 13
No, you never give up on your children, or treat them so rudely.
mccuish 25
That would’ve been a huge red flag if I heard a parent say something like that
rotflqtms_ 21
You should have growled, haha