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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 3190248" data-attributes="member: 2002">The problem really isn't the kid, it's the stupid parent.I sincerely believe that parents of small children, especially the mothers, are the most self-absorbed, arrogant and unaware people on the planet.  Their entire world revolves around their children and everyone else must be forced to bow down before their progeny and tolerate anything they or their parents want to do.I was crouching down on the floor of a drug store, looking over the books on the lower rack of the magazine/book aisle.  A woman coralled her two small children around me to yell at them.  One on either side of me, the woman bending over me, YELLING at them, right in my ear.  I stood up slowly enough so that she wouldn't get struck in the face by my head (as she would have if I'd shot upright), then turned to face her.  She was mortified and rightly so.  My opinion of her is unprintable.Unfortunately, that sort of thing has happened more than once.Can't tell you how many times I;ve been lectured or yelled at by mothers of small children, because they either couldn't control their children, or were completely unwilling to do so.For my job, I stood in a lobby of a major public building with over $200,000 in cash and coins for nearly 10 minutes, because a woman thought it ever so much fun to take her handicapped child for a ride up and down the elevator, while refusing to allow anyone else on.  I finally forced my way on, only to have her attempt to shove her child's wheelchair THROUGH my two-wheeler loaded with oh, about 200 pounds of coins, when she wanted to get off before me at the next stop.</blockquote>

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