Maybe the kid was Antifa, did you smartasses ever think about that?
He should have bought him a lunchbox.
But not the lunchbox he wanted. Then come the fireworks!
The difference here is that when he didn’t get your praise, he responded in a graceful, calm, and witty way.
You, on the other hand, came in here and shat your pants. As the forum intends for you to do, of course, but you can’t say you want me to be impressed.
Summary not full of lies:
Woman has two kids. One of the kids is screaming about wanting an item, which the mother seems to have foolishly let the kid take off the shelf and carry with him. Or maybe she didn’t notice - the level of attention she seems to be paying is very low. (Wonder what would have happened at the register.)
Kid for some reason decides to direct his demands to Our Hero, apparently on the delusion that Our Hero will buy the thing for him. No reaction from mom. Our Hero, though, does react, by making a face and saying “No.” Hearing “no”, the kid promptly melts down.
The mother reacts to something - she very politely chastises our hero for saying “No”. Our Hero is markedly less polite back to her, then turns away.
The kid (having suddenly recovered from his meltdown, because like 90% of all kid meltdowns it was just an act) teleports in front of Our Hero and repeats his demand, apparently bolstered by the fact his mom apparently disproves of other people refusing to give him things.
Our Hero repeats his “No.” The kid repeats his (faux) meltdown. Our Hero doesn’t stick around to see if the mom wants to play the repeat game too.
And being a huge dick while he did it. The entire post reeked of self-important nastiness. Pitting well deserved.
Begbert, what’s an area of life where you have expertise? Are you a great car mechanic? Are you knowledgeable about orchid care? Are you the resident nerd about 1950s cinema?
Because you are pig-ignorant about children.
Come on. The whole thing is bullshit, except that he saw a meltdown by a child in a store. The rest is fiction. You know it, I know it…
Yep. Scylla also appears to have a difficult time regulating his emotions.
All the class and grace I’ve come to expect from conservatives in 2019.
Fair. #notallconservatives, but a tremendous number have seen every bit of their political philosophy worn away, except for PWNING THE LIBS. That’s all they got left.
Scylla’s having trouble doing that, but at least he can PWN THE KINDERGARTENER. Will we take that from him too?
I am sad we missed the version where he flashed his piece, and the mom couldn’t contain her animal lust for the super macho man who finally told her kids the “no” they so desperately needed.
We were a gratuitous mention of race away from a penthouse for pubs letter.
I think that the most accurate way I can respond to this would be to say that my expertise is “having acted as a surrogate father to a child between their ages of one and five, and also having twenty nieces and nephews.”
Kids aren’t nearly as dumb as you apparently think they are. Yes, they can be hurt, afraid, sad, scared, etc. But meltdowns are virtually all them attempting to manipulate a parent/guardian. Given the right stimulus you can turn them off like a light switch, if you can do it before they cycle around to self-perpetuating mindless screaming (which of course would preclude lunchbox demands).
Everything on the internet is always true.
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
It doesn’t really matter if this little morality play happened. It tells us the same thing about Scylla’s character either way.
Oh, gosh. I need to apologize, because I didn’t express myself well at all.
No, I really don’t think kids are dumb. I think YOU are.
That’s alright, I don’t think you’re stupid. (Pats head.)
Honestly I have no real mental image of you at all.
Most likely, yes.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’ve never had children, or the memory of shopping with them when they were toddlers is a distant memory viewable only through rose-colored glasses. Because you are absolutely ignorant of what it’s like and the level of control you have over them. (On preview, I see you think being an uncle somehow taught you everything. Uhh, right.)
He purposely antagonized a 4-year old. Not some adult who should know better, a 4-year old.
Or where everyone in the store started applauding, and the manager paid for his entire purchase, and gave him a lifetime discount.
How many of these types of stories has he told? You know, maybe they’d actually be entertaining if people would just ADMIT they’re fake. This happens all the fucking time. There are posters here who come up with these outrageous tales, and Dopers eat them right up. I just wish they’d say, “this is a tale of fiction”, blah blah blah.
That checks out.
Funny how criticizing him in that thread could be considered threadshitting and subject to sanction; but a man shitting (metaphorically) on a mother having a bad day at a Walmart is socially acceptable.
It is quite obvious his antisocial behavior was done because it was focused at a women. What a big man.