I tried to talk them into letting me take them… nope! Corporate doesn’t allow that. Assholes!
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THat makes no sense. It doesn’t even cost them to have you take the plants
I know, but they don’t see it that way. It did end up costing them though. I don’t go to Walmart but maybe twice a year these days, only for things that are not easily accessed elsewhere. They can kiss my ass.
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There’s a really good brand of smoked sardines that I’ve ONLY found at walmart
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The first. Pretty disappointing 
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I was at the grocery store the other day, and they were getting ready to throw out some baked goods, I asked if I could have them instead, and the grocer looked at me incredulously and said:
“ for crying out loud, you take the cake”
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People who callously hoot at others when driving. I reserve my horn honking ability for serious misconduct on the road.
Brazenly hooting at people comes across as impatient and discourteous.
Road rage is another beast all together.
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you funny!
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All kids are demon possessed.
Avoid them at all costs…
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I was definitely a demon child, but at least I never broke anything at OTHER ppl’s houses nor did I kill any pets
Hurting animals crosses a serious line in my books
How old of a kid?
You should know, wishing death on a child crosses a pretty serious line in my own book.
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5 yrs old
5 years old is young enough to break a bowl at someone else’s house without being condemned to death, Anna. They certainly might be a spoiled kid, but you should probably rethink your position here.
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Maybe wishing death was extreme, but I was soooo pissed off
It wasn’t a bowl for eating- it was a decorative bowl mum got for me at an antique shop.
The turtle is the main problem. It was IN an aquarium
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Sounds shitty. 5 year olds can certainly be spoiled - spoiled rotten, and can also be without compassion as well as unaware of their strength in regards to small animals. Part of having a very undeveloped brain. I know (think) you didn’t mean that but my kids are 4 and 6, so despite obvious bias I didn’t like that. It’s a very serious thing to say.
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The kid sounds extraordinarily undisciplined and unattended to.
When kids are attended to well early on they learn better behaviors and demonstrate them along with a desire to do well and make their parents happy by doing good things.
When they are neglected and/or beaten for making their parents mad by “bothering” them, then they act like the kid described above.
Therefore, in my humble opinion, the people truly at fault here are the parents. Thats who I’d be pissed at.
Unfortunately if you express that they’ll just beat the kid for embarrassing them and call you an asshole for expressing an opinion they don’t appreciate, no matter how accurate it may be.
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Think it is just rhetoric but I agree. I also empathize, having a terror running around your house with parents that dont intervene can make you feel helpless. And I am more about solutions, so here are things that you can do:
Strategy One - share the suffering load with the parents. Most satisfying, gets the parents and the kid. Example is encourage them to take their shoes off then when they are not looking, take them and hide them (in the bin). If you have a weak moment, you can call in a day or so and tell the parents you found the shoes. Toys have more impact than clothing. Choose the right item for the level of shitness of the child.
Strategy Two - strategy One with a physical twist. Close to one but sometimes you just gotta get instant gratification. Example is if you know they are coming, take the hose out and make a really muddy patch if your yard and throw a ball in the middle of it
Strategy Three - Forced timeout. You ‘accidentally’ close the door on them, you didn’t know they were in that closet. Send a message to the parents ‘sure is quite around here, where’s Jimmy?’. Not much satisfaction with this one, but gives you a break. You’re probably going to come back to carnage in the room
Strategy Four - The hatched job. This is where you set up the kid. That vase in your mom’s house that you hate. You place a bat and ball next to it and entice the little horror into the room. Ask him/her to play ball then leave them to it
Strategy Five - Humiliation. This is where you get them to do something that is fun for them but also degrading and gonna piss their parents off. For example, kids and especially boys love climbing into things and hiding. Empty your bin, open the lid, make it accessible to the child. They’ll get in their, go tell the parents. Pretty satisfying but also petty. Also note you can also make it super awkward for the parents. Hey Joe, come see this, it’s so cute!
Strategy Six - accidental violence. Only as a last resort for the worst of kids. Initially extremely satisfying, will be a circuit breaker but can carry guilt (what sort of human am I?), be prepared for crying. Can be direct - walk into the child or step on the foot or indirect, if you have another child in the house, offer to swing them and accidentally swing them into the devil child
Now you’re equipped to deal with the child world. Use your creativity and remember as the Oompa Loompas said often it’s the parents to blame but sometimes you are just landed with a shit of a child. Make sure you account for that in which strategy you choose. Good luck.
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This feels like such an important point here. 5 year olds are not “mini adults”, they are underdeveloped adults and that’s a really big distinction.
To use an analogy that @anna_5588 might approve of: you wouldn’t run a piece of software thats only 25% through development and expect it to work as intended.
@flappinit @dagill2 trust me, I was a demon child too and I’m sure there are more than a few ppl who wished I would die.
@SkyzykS i think you might be right. I asked mum and she said that the parents never disciplined the child. My parents did discipline me, so I guess, as always, I’m lucky
@strongmangoals i like your way of thinking 
@dagill2 fair point. Although I don’t write or run software. I ask my classmates to do that for me 
Yeah. Discipline goes much further than just correcting a child or smacking him/her when they do something wrong.
It starts with teaching them what is right in the first place. You can’t correct somebody when they don’t even know what right is.
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