You know the screaming kids at work are loud...

[matrixrefugee]

...when it gets on the nerves of the ladies I work with.

Yesterday wasn't an insanely busy day at work, but at one point, these three female customers who had about eight or nine kids among them, decided to have a mom conference in the entryway. Meanwhile, their offspring decide to start rampaging, climbing on registers, swinging on shopping carts, wrestling on the floor and making as much racket as twenty kids. The cashier-ladies who work the morning shift usually go delightedly hoopey over kids, but even they were staring at the commotion.

Finally, the moms moved on -- just as "the Frenchman" was about to approach them and warn them about letting their kids mistake a grocery store for a playground. Once it was quiet again, one of the cashiers said, "It's nice that it's quiet, it sounded like Kiddieland." Said another, "I thought we were at Canobie Lake Park for a minute there." Said I, "You know the kids are *LOUD* when their racket gets to you gals..."

And then one of the regulars, a woman who shops with her pet chihuahua shows up with her poochie, who was sitting in the kid seat on his human companion's shopping cart, being so quiet and well-behaved. Talk about cosmic irony...

Comments

[koemiko.livejournal.com]

I saw a commercial to that effect.

Then it said, "Wear Condoms."

[dunmoose.livejournal.com]

thats sad really

[cerulianphoenix.livejournal.com]

It's insane to think that any one adult would allow children to act like that in private let alone in public. But this happened with three adults? Why?!

The second odd thing in this story is that a chihuahua, no matter how well behaved, would be allowed in a grocery store. That kind of boggles my mind. I mean don't grocery stores deal with, well, groceries and aren't dogs plus food seen as slightly unsanitary?

[bel-fiore.livejournal.com]

I hate seeing living things other than people in a grocery store. Like flies and birds.
What if the dog got loose? That would be funny.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, we've had a *beagle* run into the store a couple of times. We think he lives in the area, and the running joke -- which I started -- is that they ran out of doggy treats in his house, so he decided to come get some more himself.

[(Anonymous)]

I, frankly, can't stand the new idea people seem to have of dogs: since when did they become fashion accessories instead of pets? I'll bet if a scientist managed to genetically introduce a zipper and handle on a chihuahua, that would become the most popular pet EVER.

~Ruby (who owns a rottweiller and thus is exepmt from the 'dog-as-fashion-item' title due to his sheer WEIGHT)

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I think a rottie counts as a fashion accessory only if you're a biker or a gang hoodlum-wannabe.

But you're right about the chihuahua-as-fashion accessory. Damn you, Paris Hilton, though someone else probably started the trend long before that.

[dunmoose.livejournal.com]

wouldnt the pet dog be considered a health violation? I have a hard time picturing a chihuahua as a guide dog!