Today, a kid got his hand stuck inside my store's giant gumball machine. He started crying, and his negligent trainwreck of a mom bitched me out for being "unobservant." I'd been mopping up the mess she'd made after she'd spilled an open can of beer all over the floor. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, at my job working retail, I had just finished cleaning and straightening a whole aisle. This kid watched me do the whole thing. When I was done, he stuck his arm out, and ran it down the whole shelf, knocking everything off it. His mother just grabbed his hand and walked away. FML
Today, I slipped on a crayon a little girl threw on the floor, causing me to drop the tray of water I was carrying, making me spill it all over her. After getting cussed out by her mom, I was fired for making a customer unhappy. FML
Today, a little girl wandered into the glass-cleaning area of the pub I work at. It's a dangerous place for a little kid, so I took her hand and asked where her mum was. The kid starts screaming and the mother appears in the doorway shouting "GET AWAY FROM MY BABY!" FML
Today, as I was bagging groceries, I looked down to see a 6-year-old urinating on my shoes and the floor next to me. I told his mother that he should take her kid to the restroom, only to be told to "mind my own goddamn business." I was later fired for arguing with the customer. FML
Today, a child was choking in the store I work at. He was alone in the aisle, so I started the Heimlich without his parents' permission. After dislodging what was caught, his mother turned the corner and went screaming to my manager for touching her kid. I got a write up. FML
Today, I spent an hour setting up a delicate display stand at work. Not five minutes later, a woman barged in with her little kid, who immediately went up to the display and tipped the whole thing over. When I called attention to the mother, she just scoffed, "Isn't this your job?" and left. FML
Today, I stopped two little boys from spitting over a railing at the piano player two floors below in the department store I work at. Their mom complained to my boss about me. FML
Today, while I was working at a supermarket, a kid started to cry in line because he couldn't get candy. Since we have free lollipops behind the desk, I gave him one. His mom complained to my manager and said I was grooming her child. FML
Today, I was at the mall, I saw a girl crying that her ice cream had fallen on the floor. Feeling generous, I bought her a new one. She threw it on the ground, laughed, and came over to her mom and told that I was bothering her, so the mom called security. FML
Today, I tripped over a kid at work. She was sitting on the floor with her legs sticking out into the walkway. Her mom caused a scene, accusing me of doing it on purpose. FML
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TheVelocirabbit 10
"You have now been banished from the kingdom of this store. Be gone, troll!"
Christina6 11
The mom was unobservant her self for not noticing you were cleaning up her mess.
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Comments (136)
fmessiah 19
The world is full of very interesting people, shame there are so many of them that are interesting in a horrifying way.
zandalee 20
Yeah we all know how interesting you are. Your a sick individual.
fmessiah 19
you're? Sorry, I forgot imagination and creativity has died.
cindykitty 0
Dumb bitch she must of been high
nevershoutkendal_fml 11
Or more than likely drunk. Or even just an all-around poor excuse for a mother.
mhopper 13
So she's drinking beer AND her kids are running amuck? Call DYFUS! Or get her license plate and call the cops. Either way, she's clearly the negligent one.
lovelyspyder 7
Totally agree! Drinking, then getting behind the wheel with her kid in the car, no matter how much beer she had, is definite grounds for calling CPS!!
nevershoutkendal_fml 11
Who said she was driving? People walk to stores. But she still needs to be reported.
lovelyspyder 7
Child services, anyone?
LadyGore 12
I work in retail and my god I'd be ******* livid. Two little kids pushed over a rack and it landed on the one at my work. The mother got mad at me for not watching them because I was helping a lady at the till.
tennisrapper1 14
We don't care.
corleon198425 22
I got my hand stuck in a gum ball machine back In 92. But there was a pizza hit next door to the thrifts! Pizza always works
comeatmebroo6254 1
Just don't listen to her. It wasn't your fault she wasn't watching HER OWN child.
tennisrapper1 14
Drinking in public (except for bars obviously) is illegal, especially in the presence of minors. Bitch at her about THAT!
diaspora_fml 26
your laws are universal? zeroing in on the only location dependent aspect of this story says little about the stated situation ...
tennisrapper1 14
I'd be surprised if it wasn't in norway.
darnellq 13
It's actually legal in Louisiana.
RydeOrDie 7
You shouldn't be so unobservant. the customers always right.
downtime 13
Since she's clearly so out of it she has no idea whats going on you may be able to just convince her she's the one at work and not doing her job. Then storm out telling her you'll be back in 5 hours to pick up your kid, and go do whatever it is you kids like doing these days.