Stupid Parents
Jan 15, 2007 7:17:56 GMT -5
Post by Courtney on Jan 15, 2007 7:17:56 GMT -5
Sorry, gotta get this out:
So, I work at Walgreens and as you can imagine, we get some pretty stupid people in there on a daily basis. The worst of which are parents who decide to let their children loose and let them scream and shout. We've all had to deal with this either as an employee or customer in some place. Well, earlier this week, I got to witness the worst of this.
This mom comes in with her two sons who are about 3 and 5. She puts her youngest son in a buggy and starts to push them toward the make-up wall. Now, I should point out here that she didn't put him in the child seat towards the back of the buggy. No, she put him in the bigger section with his back against the railing of the front section of the cart. The older boy is walking beside her. She stops to look at nail polish and I'm further down the wall putting up stock. I can see them and continue about my business. The older boy soon leaves his mother's side and starts pushing the cart around with the other boy still inside. He is...what's a nice word...rambunctious. He is pushing the cart backward, forward, spinning it in circles. What is the mother doing? Picking out nail polish.
Finally, after about five minutes, she tells the boy to stop and she pulls the cart to her. He throws a hissy-fit, stomps away very loudly, and plops down on the floor, arms crossed, pouting. By this time, I've stopped doing what I'm doing and I'm watching this in amusement. She kneels down and speaks to him for about 10 seconds, then goes back to shopping. Soon, as I thought would happen, he gets up and goes back to the cart. He takes it and proceeds to start pushing it away from him and running to catch it. Then he decides to push it and jump on the front bottom ledge of the buggy. Now the first time he does it, he's fine. The second time? Not so much. He jumps on the cart and the weight of the little boy and him causes the buggy to flip front-side down.
I watched the entire thing happen. At first, I was more concerned for the little boy in the cart. He fell onto his back and the metal grating of the cart couldn't have felt good. Then, after two or three seconds, the mother turns around to check on them and kneels down to the bigger boy. This is when I see the blood and go toward them. Turns out the cart landed on the older boy's finger and chopped off the tip. There is blood everywhere! The ambulance is called and my managers and I do everything we can until they get there. They take him and I clean up all the blood on the floor.
So, I think it's over, but no. The next day, the boy's grandmother calls and says that her son and his stupid fucking wife have every intention of suing Walgreens. She rips into my manager and says that this is all our fault. Then she throws out this little gem:
"Where were your employees at during this whole thing? Why weren't they monitoring the situation?"
BECAUSE IT'S NOT MY FUCKING JOB TO BABYSIT YOUR FUCKING GRANDCHILDREN BECAUSE THEIR STUPID FUCKING MOTHER CAN'T DO HER JOB AND WATCH THEM!!! And if this case goes to trial, you best believe I'll be the first one they call to testify and I'll tell anyone who'll listen exactly what happen. How your WHITE TRASH daughter-in-law is a dumbass and it's all on camera! So shut the fuck up woman and go slap the shit out of her like she deserves!
So, I work at Walgreens and as you can imagine, we get some pretty stupid people in there on a daily basis. The worst of which are parents who decide to let their children loose and let them scream and shout. We've all had to deal with this either as an employee or customer in some place. Well, earlier this week, I got to witness the worst of this.
This mom comes in with her two sons who are about 3 and 5. She puts her youngest son in a buggy and starts to push them toward the make-up wall. Now, I should point out here that she didn't put him in the child seat towards the back of the buggy. No, she put him in the bigger section with his back against the railing of the front section of the cart. The older boy is walking beside her. She stops to look at nail polish and I'm further down the wall putting up stock. I can see them and continue about my business. The older boy soon leaves his mother's side and starts pushing the cart around with the other boy still inside. He is...what's a nice word...rambunctious. He is pushing the cart backward, forward, spinning it in circles. What is the mother doing? Picking out nail polish.
Finally, after about five minutes, she tells the boy to stop and she pulls the cart to her. He throws a hissy-fit, stomps away very loudly, and plops down on the floor, arms crossed, pouting. By this time, I've stopped doing what I'm doing and I'm watching this in amusement. She kneels down and speaks to him for about 10 seconds, then goes back to shopping. Soon, as I thought would happen, he gets up and goes back to the cart. He takes it and proceeds to start pushing it away from him and running to catch it. Then he decides to push it and jump on the front bottom ledge of the buggy. Now the first time he does it, he's fine. The second time? Not so much. He jumps on the cart and the weight of the little boy and him causes the buggy to flip front-side down.
I watched the entire thing happen. At first, I was more concerned for the little boy in the cart. He fell onto his back and the metal grating of the cart couldn't have felt good. Then, after two or three seconds, the mother turns around to check on them and kneels down to the bigger boy. This is when I see the blood and go toward them. Turns out the cart landed on the older boy's finger and chopped off the tip. There is blood everywhere! The ambulance is called and my managers and I do everything we can until they get there. They take him and I clean up all the blood on the floor.
So, I think it's over, but no. The next day, the boy's grandmother calls and says that her son and his stupid fucking wife have every intention of suing Walgreens. She rips into my manager and says that this is all our fault. Then she throws out this little gem:
"Where were your employees at during this whole thing? Why weren't they monitoring the situation?"
BECAUSE IT'S NOT MY FUCKING JOB TO BABYSIT YOUR FUCKING GRANDCHILDREN BECAUSE THEIR STUPID FUCKING MOTHER CAN'T DO HER JOB AND WATCH THEM!!! And if this case goes to trial, you best believe I'll be the first one they call to testify and I'll tell anyone who'll listen exactly what happen. How your WHITE TRASH daughter-in-law is a dumbass and it's all on camera! So shut the fuck up woman and go slap the shit out of her like she deserves!