I see indignancy that you apparently don’t see.
“Don’t let YOU or HIM get in MY face.” Sounds like a muscle head raring to start a bar fight.
Yes, a kid spazzing out in the store is a nuisance. Yes, a prudent parent would not allow this to go on without correction. But a half pint demanding “buy me lunchbox!” in a store is pretty lightweight stuff that a grown man should be able to let roll off his back. There are much bigger worries in the world than this. Like grocery carts in the aisle.
I would like to note that Scylla’s pissy little flounce in ATMB is miles funnier than anything that pompous ass has ever written.
Mean to children 
Anti-semite
Giant fucking whiny baby
Is there going to be a flounce is he doesn’t get what he wants?
I don’t have much experience with this, I’m only used to five-year-olds who melt down in public.
He just needs someone to get in his face with a nuclear level sneer and tell him NO. He’ll start acting like an adult then.
I don’t know. It’s like bullies. Sneerers are usually not good sneerees. More likely to feel like the victim of the story.
He’s already trying to blame Loach for not being able to post.
rather than just admit it was over the top and he was just being an Internet Tough Guy.
He is right, this will make it difficult for him to post. This is like Hal and the sheep, something he will be remembered for.
Ah, you mean Hal the bridge-builder?
(Bolding mine.) This is the finest characterization of Scylla’s writing that I’ve seen yet. Kudos.
Also, if I ever need someone to write a last-minute term paper for English class on my behalf, I am definitely hiring Stanislaus. His analysis was a thing of beauty.
I’m concerned that his mom will come along and gently ask us not to talk to him that way.
What a twat, you self satisfied jerk
"**The kid is now far enough away from his mother that this is getting uncomfortable. I want to escape, but I don’t want to be accused of kidnapping if the kid follows me. I don’t want to cause her any discomfort by leading her kid away. At the same time, I don’t want to cause a scene and have to deal with investigating Target employees. If she says the wrong thing to them or makes an accusation this could get uncomfortable. Than too, it looks like this lady is no longer stunned by my beggar comment, and has had enough time to build up some indignation and might have a few choice words for me.
I need to escape before the mother arrives and I need the kid to not follow me. I have maybe five seconds to act before the whole situation goes tits up.**"
mister smugballs getting nervous now, a tinkle of fear shrinking your smirk as you sweat it out looking to run oh but not before you hurl another snarl at the first grader. Fuck your face!
Just when you think everything worth saying has been said before.
Scylla, you should have told people the truth - the kid was carrying a ‘Make America Great Again’ lunch box. If you had left that in the story, you’d be a big hero!
Anyway, this whole sad saga made me glad that I didn’t tell the story of when I kicked that damned annoying puppy.
Puppies are the worst! :mad:
Your petulant self-pity game is strong, dude.
Unlike your sense of humor, which is apparently nonexistent.
It’s not that I didn’t recognize you were trying to tell a joke, dude. It’s that petulant self-pity isn’t a great starting point for a knee-slapper.
I feel a little stupid, because I see neither the “joke,” nor the petulant self-pity. Splain me, Loosey.
LHoD, you just don’t understand the joke: See, libruls are humorless hypocrites so they only see the humor of an anecdote if it pokes fun at something they hate and that’s not at all conservative projection nosiree it’s how libruls and only libruls are in the real world that’s how you know you’ve owned the snowflakes if they start complaining and being uncivil d’ya get it? Hrr hrr!
Actually, I was just telling a little joke. But now I have to point out that you just engaged in self-parody, accusing me of thinking that ‘libruls’ are humorless snowflakes - while behaving like a triggered humorless librul snowflake.
You see, the Straight Dope is so full of Liberal Zealots/Usual Suspects/True Believers, that if only Scylla had told the story in a way that the four-year-old were a conservative wanting a Republican wanting a Trump lunchbox, the nasty liberals would’ve cheered Scylla’s shitty behavior, just like we always cheer it when people beat up on conservatives like Sam! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Funny joke time.
“Triggered”? Oh boy.