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Articles: Adventures of the semi-nude. |
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Merry_Widow on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - 12:03 AM PST
Common sense dictates that one cannot expect complete privacy and security when one is in the dressing room at a popular and crowded store. There are all sorts of people meandering about, looking for an empty stall, looking for a family member or friend, or what have you. So it's not unexpected to be walked in on, especially when the doors don't have little locks on them. I have been caught in several stages of undress by all sorts of people. Intruder reactions vary; some people are embarrassed, some angry because the stall they wanted is occupied, some more than willing to offer an opinion on the particular article of clothing being tried on.
I normally don't get too excited about crowded fitting rooms, it's all part of the fun when I go out shopping. But there is one thing in dressing rooms that I absolutely loath. Unattended children. Christ almighty, I can't stand it when kids are running around that place while their mothers blithely waltz around in front of the mirrors, trying to decide if the too small shirt they tried on is really too small. Mind you, I'm not completely heartless when it comes to kids. I know that mothers don't want to leave their little contraceptive accidents by themselves. But there is a limit to my patience, especially when the child is male, and old enough to behave himself outside of a ladies dressing room.
Like today. I was out shopping, being in desperate need of new jeans. I elbowed my way through the racks, grabbed some jeans that looked decent, then went to try them on. I got inside the dressing room, and the first thing I saw was an eight or nine year old boy, running around, making all sorts of horrible noise, whining, bitching about how bored he was, and he wanted to go home, hurry up mom, all that kind of stuff. I assumed his mother was behind the door he kept beating on, so I picked an empty stall across the aisle and about four doors down..As I began trying on jeans and wishing that I had hips, the disagreeable little shit outside was pretty much pushed from my mind.
That is, until, as I had my shirt hiked up pretty high in order to see how a waist line looked on me, the little punk burst into the stall. There was no way a kid his age could have mistaken my location for his mothers location. That alone was enough to irritate me. When he began laughing and pointing, saying rather loudly, in Spanish, that I was extremely white...well, that was about all I could take. I started yelling right back at him in Spanish. Now, my Spanish is not good. In fact, the only real vocabulary I have maintained contains rather inane statements and extreme vulgarity. This kid got earfuls of the vulgar portion. I'm pretty sure the sentences were pretty much incoherent thins, just one cuss word right after the other. All the same, it did the trick. He backed away very quickly, and I slammed the door behind him.
I changed back into my own clothes and got out of there.As bad as that was, the really, really infuriating part came when I was exiting the fitting room, the mother of the boy, with her son hiding behind her, told me I should watch my language. I could only shake my head and tell her she needed to watch her kid as I presented her with a wonderful view of my retreating back.
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Adventures of the semi-nude. | Login/Create an account | 11 Comments |
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude.
by Squire-of-Gothos (Brian0049@hotmail.com)
on Sep 10, 2003 - 07:58 AM
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Indignance, a wonderful human virtue. You know, I can't say I've never deserved getting bitched at by a parent or customer during my reign as an asshole/cashier, but ediot, miscreant, and crappy parents seem to create the vast majority of our population. Their was a time when a kid acting like an ediot got schooled by an elder, and the mother or father apreciated said elder for keeping their kid in line when the parents couldn't. But now everyone is an expert child rearing machine, and no amount of disobedience or stupidity on the part of the child can tell them different. I can't tell you how many times I've seen absent minded parents just standing there saying, "Stop it, stop it, stop, I mean it, you should stop," so friggin absent mindedly its sad, while the kid sits their sticking a fork in an outlet or eating some paint chips. You know how my dad stopped me from screwing off? He back handed me in the face. Didn't beat me, just a quick smack in the face, and I shut THE FUCK UP. It works. Seriously, try it!
I don't condone beating your child, but when an idiot kid is flaking, and the parent doesn't repremand him, or puts him in time out, he grows into a teenager or adult with no regard for authority and asuming that their are really no tangible reporcusions for being bad. I see it all the time, and it sickens me.
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by Ironboots on Sep 10, 2003 - 11:19 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://rangerjacket.tripod.com | Yeah yeah... me too, man... 'Cept I got spanked. And my dad had one hell of a hand. Ah, the memories...
And guess what? I don't go around bullying people or robbing stores, like the parent guides would like you to believe... I'm pretty normal (as far as 'normal' goes...)
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by Anonymous-Coward on Sep 11, 2003 - 02:14 PM | Yeah. Just TRY reprimanding a kid in public. When a kid is in public, they know just where they've got you. You don't DARE say more to them beyond, "Please stop it, honey." They know you can't swat them or yell at them. Most people won't even try. The ones that do swat or raise their voices get every do-gooder within earshot coming over to them and telling them what a horrible person they are, and then the do-gooder threatens to call the cops and take away your child when all you're trying to do is get him to act civilized in public. And yes, sometimes it's necessary to raise your voice enough that said child will listen to you and maybe think you're serious. These parents AREN'T absent-minded. They're TIRED. Exhausted from being run over and terrorized by a child who has more rights than the parent does. You do not have the right to discipline your child these days. Time-outs do not work. Speaking to a child and expecting it to be reasonable is futile, because they do not develop reason until sometime in their mid-twenties. All they care about is what they want and they use any means necessary to get it, even if it means being a terrorist in the middle of the store. Me, when I do take my kids to a store (which is rare, as it's impossible to keep 4 of them in one place and shop as well) if they start acting up, giving me a hard time, being unreasonable, in general acting like little twits, I calmly pick up my purse, and leave the grocery cart and start to walk out of the store. I tell them that they aren't mature enough to go on a shopping trip with me, and that they will go home and I will shop later. That usually produces a round of screaming fits, "I'm SORRY! I won't do it again! I don't want to go home!" This scene is embarrassing enough, but at least it doesn't involve me doing anything that could be construed as abuse. Usually I reconsider and go back to the cart and finish the shopping trip and they behave the rest of the time. More parents should use this approach. It does take a bit of a sense of humor to get past the tantrum that follows, and the willingness to follow through on it and be prepared to abandon a full shopping cart, wasting a trip. It works, much better than a smack or a yelling contest with a nine year old in the middle of a store. |
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by Squire-of-Gothos (Brian0049@hotmail.com) on Sep 11, 2003 - 07:12 PM (User info | Send a Message) http:// | When I say absent minded, i mean to that they say it a totally lax unassertive manner. They don't even raise they're voice. But these folks are bottom of the barrel parents. Raising your voice or playing the old, "im leaving you here" game is a perfectly acceptable way of repremanding them in my opinion. |
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by dead-cell (Tarant-9@stribmail.com) on Sep 11, 2003 - 07:11 PM (User info | Send a Message) | I could rant on this issue, but I will try to keep it short. One day in psychology class we had this discussion. A late 30-ish women spoke up and told us of her families experience living in Norway. She told the class of non-punished European kids would just plain out be mean to their elders. She also compared her kids to that of the other kids. She remarked that her kids along with other kids that had authoritative parents were more well mannered and mature. While the other kids were more wild, and bully-ish not only to fellow children but as well to the teachers. Then a younger girl spoke about her 6 year old niece’s unruly behavior, and how when she was her niece's age she would not get away with half the shit her niece pulls. The general consensus of the class was that they did not loath or resent their parents for punishing bad behavior.
Recently my cousin (cousin-in-law) told me of new rules that she had to follow. She works for a local high school baby-sitting for students' with kids. She listed some rules like "a kid's age determines how long the child spend in time out" nor can she take the kid's recess away, nor can she punish the entire class on the acts of a few kids (not one favorite options but effective).
As for my punishment as a child: most of the punishment came form the "neighborhood baby-sitter." She was it her fifties and came from Kentucky. She had three good way of punishing my friends and I. We did something bad we got spanked. We said something bad we got hot sauce in our mouths. Both were usually followed by spending 20 minutes in time out. Which is why I’m proud to say now I fear no hot sauce, spices, chili peppers, etc...<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> |
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by Arthegarn on Sep 12, 2003 - 09:22 AM (User info | Send a Message) | Yep. Me too. I've been an awfully good and patiend kind for as long as I can remember, but my parents spanked me from time to time when I deserved it. And my sisters got quite a lot more of it than I did. As soon as I had a hint of self conscience i respected authority, and it was just a look of my father's for me to stop whatever I was doing and be quiet. Maybe I didn't understand why, but i did it nonetheless, and it was not becasue i feared it, but because I thought it natural to obey and respect my parents. Boy, was I a nice kid or what?
Once I was talking to my parents about these issues and they told me the trick: Never punish when you are angry, they said. Spank just once or twice, it's about the realisation that with bad acts came bad conequences, not about retaliation they said. After punishment, ask the kid why did he do what he did, and when he tells you that he doesn't know, tell him yhat he must always ask himself why does he do things they said. And I might add: never spank others' kids, leave that to their parents, but be sure to tell them what they did and, if it was annoying, quite plitely insist on how much you were annoyed.
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by summer_leaf (-) on Sep 14, 2003 - 09:47 PM (User info | Send a Message) | Idiots need to be punished in some form, not have their demands given to them. It only makes them worse, more disrespectful. For instance, the quiet child who never asks a thing of his parents, but his sister gets whatever she wants, yelling her order to their parents. They command the brother to drive the sister somewhere. She takes control of his radio, singing mindlessly to words which mean something to someone with open ears. She argues with him over something minor, and the boy is not listened to by his mother, she takes her daughters side and blames the boy for troubles. And so the disrespector got away.. Sad. |
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by summer_leaf (-) on Sep 14, 2003 - 10:00 PM (User info | Send a Message) | by the way, I am referring to teenage idiots. I am a teenager, but i know not to make a scene, never have: I feared my father's belt. |
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude.
by Tvileren on Sep 10, 2003 - 02:36 PM
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You shoyld have slapped them both down. Rude people like that should be getting a couple of slaps, hard slaps...
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Re: Adventures of the semi-nude. by feralucce (Iwouldliketokillyou@gofuckyourself.com) on Sep 10, 2003 - 07:26 PM (User info | Send a Message) http://feralucce.vibechild.com | I feel your pain. Never been in that exact situation, but I believe there is a reason most animals will eat their own young. Children these days, mostly, need a good spanking...
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