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Long short evening at work
Jul. 22nd, 2004 11:08 pmBusy day today: I finished typing the first chapter of "Along a Knife's Blade", this before I had to go to work today. And now I'm nervous that I won't get next Wednesday night off since we're finally having another "A.I." RP Game session then -- YAAAAYYY!!!! (Careful to keep fingers crossed...) Please pray that I get that night off.
Trying not to gripe here, but this week seems to have been the week for small children to make horrendous noise in public. I'm not expecting them to be little angels, but if people would just learn how to say "NO!" and mean "NO!!" to their tykes, it would be so much easier for the rest of us. I'm in the Barnes and Noble downtown the other day, poking around, when this kid is playing around with one of those gawd-awful "talking Books", the kind with the picture buttons on the right-hand side and they're usually tie-ins with Disney movies? In this case it was "Brother Bear". Well, the kid keeps pressing the same button over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. He must have pressed it 40 times in the space of 5 minutes. Finally his mother said something like "Mommy wants you to please stop doing that." When a "Junior, stop doing that!" would probably have been more effective. Because he started doing it again about three seconds after she told him to "please stop". I almost went over, took the book away from him and told him in a Hans Gruber-esque voice to quit that or he'd be eating that book.
And then tonight, this three year old girl sitting in a shopping cart in the lane I was sacking in, started howling that she wanted pudding. The grandmother wouldn't give it to her, so the three year old got ahold of the rails of the lane and started rolling the shopping cart back and forth rather violently. I almost took her hands off, but I was honestly afraid the kid would bite me.
Trying not to gripe here, but this week seems to have been the week for small children to make horrendous noise in public. I'm not expecting them to be little angels, but if people would just learn how to say "NO!" and mean "NO!!" to their tykes, it would be so much easier for the rest of us. I'm in the Barnes and Noble downtown the other day, poking around, when this kid is playing around with one of those gawd-awful "talking Books", the kind with the picture buttons on the right-hand side and they're usually tie-ins with Disney movies? In this case it was "Brother Bear". Well, the kid keeps pressing the same button over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. He must have pressed it 40 times in the space of 5 minutes. Finally his mother said something like "Mommy wants you to please stop doing that." When a "Junior, stop doing that!" would probably have been more effective. Because he started doing it again about three seconds after she told him to "please stop". I almost went over, took the book away from him and told him in a Hans Gruber-esque voice to quit that or he'd be eating that book.
And then tonight, this three year old girl sitting in a shopping cart in the lane I was sacking in, started howling that she wanted pudding. The grandmother wouldn't give it to her, so the three year old got ahold of the rails of the lane and started rolling the shopping cart back and forth rather violently. I almost took her hands off, but I was honestly afraid the kid would bite me.