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Are we having a bad day???? LOL.....

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Originally Posted by Lisanne

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Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian

... and the parents look at ME like I'm a piece of crap...

I don't actually see out-of-control kids very often. But when they are, and the parent isn't doing anything, and I try to say something, the abuse that comes out of those parents' mouths, like I'm the one who's at fault...

Mostly, kids are better behaved than their parents, IMO. It's the kids who move carts out of the way; the parents just ignore you. It's the kids who say "Excuse us" after their mother pushes her way past...

Or, the parents tell them to stop just to hear themselves say it, they don't really mean it. Most children who get away with being brats normally don't listen to their parents when their parents DO tell them to behave, however, if a stranger scolds them, or even just asks them to settle down, they tend to take it more seriously. In my experience, anyway...

I have to agree with you about lots of children being better behaved then their parents. I think this is the case with most people, but what we notice the most are the bad ones, and I guess we blow things out of proportion. There aren't THAT many bad kids in my store, but the only ones that really stick out in my mind are the bad ones.

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Originally Posted by JJs

Are we having a bad day???? LOL.....

Not really, actually, lol! I live in Montreal, so many of these traffic bugs happen just going down the street to the grocery store! It's an every day occurance, not just things that bother me once in a while.

My PP's are ~

people have a group conversation in doorways and isles .... move to the side so people can walk by!!!

kids (and parents) who think any restaurant is 'Chucky Cheese'. I was leading a blind friend in Olive Garden (you know how close some of the tables can be) and this kid was running around mom's table, mom was oblivious OMG I wanted to ......

This one I know I'm a minority but .... I'm a smoker smoking outside the building next to the astray that the business has provided. But it is FULL of garbage not cigerette bu*ts .. hello the garbage can is 2 feet away.

Oh, I just though of another peeve of mine. People who bring their buggys out of the grocery store, load the car up, and LEAVE THE BUGGY THERE. Then, someone else comes along and goes to park in that spot, but there's a buggy in the way, so they have to circle around again and find another spot, or stop in the middle of the way, get out of the car, bring the buggy back to it's little buggy shelter, go back to the car and park properly. ARGH!!!!
It's so annoying, because it's always in the good spots too. You show up in the parking lot, and you're all happy that there is a good spot available and when you turn into it, you realize that you can't even park there because some dummy left his buggy in the way.

Oh, and what about people who show up an hour and a half late for a meeting, constantly, keeping everyone waiting and making everyone late for the rest of the day, just because they're too *&%#@ lazy to get up on time and get to where they're going. If everyone else can get there on time, so can the person in question.

In general, I'm a pretty tolerant person, even with all these pregnancy hormones raging through my body at the moment. I'll put up with people who chew loudly, eat while they're doing the groceries (before paying for the food they're eating), people who try on clothes and leave everythig on the floor in the dressing room, leave their garbage all over the table in the food court (like, how hard is it to pick up your tray and throw out the garbage?)
I'm not going to say these things (and mroe) don't bother me, but I'm not going to stomp my feet about it.

Ok, I'm going to go to work now, because if I just sit here, I'm going to write a whole book on people who p!ss me off, lol!

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Originally Posted by redquilter

People talking really loud on their cell phones in public places. Not all of us are interested in what's going on in their lives. Oh and people at buffets who load up their plates and throw most of it away, then go back and get more! Grrrrrr........!

Couple years ago I was at a buffet restaurant, a plump family came in, parents & 3 children. They loaded their plates, sat near us, they ate everything, went back for 2nds and 3rds while we were still on our first and only plates. The one little boy then went outside, there was a bush near the door, I saw him make himself toss his meal. He than came back in and reloaded a plate. I just could not believe my eyes. Makes you wonder what kind of kids will these youngers someday will have.

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Originally Posted by Shadow Dancer

My only pet peeve is children who are holy little terrors! Especially the ones who run around stores throwing tantrums, screaming and wreaking havoc.

Makes me want to smack the parents! lol

I have to agree with you. I hate hearing screaming kids and then see the parents give in to stop the screaming. Don't they know they are making it worse?

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Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian

Oh, and what about people who show up an hour and a half late for a meeting, constantly, keeping everyone waiting and making everyone late for the rest of the day, just because they're too *&%#@ lazy to get up on time and get to where they're going. If everyone else can get there on time, so can the person in question.

Before I retired, this is one that really peeved me. Folks late for meetings and then expect to be brought up to date of what went on. That never happened on meetings I went to, as soon as the person(s) sat down, the meeting moved on. They could find out from someone after the meeting on what they had missed. One program manage said, "good thing this wasn't a sinking ship, you would have missed the life boat".

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Originally Posted by MistyMarie

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Originally Posted by JJs

I think I have another pet peeve - in fact, I know I do....
atrocious spelling and incorrect English! Their, there, your, you're, we're, were, here, hear, to, two, too, basic stuff that we all learned in GRADE school. People have a major tendency to claim that it "doesn't matter, people know what you mean". Do they? I went to school in two different states and both taught English, Spelling, Grammar, all through grade school and high school - all required subjects. Why would anyone who went through school be so willing to post in a public forum and not make at least an effort to check their spelling? Why show the whole world that you don't care about how you present yourself? Who decided that "spelling doesn't count"?

I see major mistakes on news broadcasts, in newspapers, on billboards - it's getting ridiculous....

Off my soapbox now...... (and let's all hope I didn't make any spelling errors LOL)

For some CRAZY reason, we are no longer teaching spelling in upper grade levels. We are not allowed to drill grammar at all. Worksheets to teach punctuation, capitalization, and syntax are a thing of the past. I am so disgusted with how limited I am in being able to teach my students proper grammatical skills. We focus on the ideas and the content, not on whether they can spell correctly. When I talk about the need for more grammar being taught, I am told to work with each kid individually on the errors they need to correct. Hello... have you seen my class of 37 kids? How am I supposed to sit down with each kid individually and teach them grammar? What do I do with the other 36 seventh graders while I am working with one? Well, I am told that if I was a better teacher, my students would be sitting there actively engaged with their writing while I could talk to individual students. In fourteen years of being in classrooms, I have never seen a teacher able to do that for more than about ten minutes. I shudder to think about what our next generation is going to do to the English language since they don't seem to care if they can use it correctly or not.

My own children are not going to a public school because it seems we are about making the kids feel good about themselves, not providing a quality education. It is worth the $10,000+ I pay a year (just for grade school) to give them a chance to get a quality education.

AMEM :!: AMEN :!: AMEN :!: