That’s not funny.
Here’s a mirror so you can practice your own Scrooge vs. the Christmas carolers expression.
I encounter harried parents with kids who’re just not having it pretty often, and being the cranky curmudgeon I am I usually…make faces at the kid and distract them a little bit to give them a chance to focus on something else like the crazy old lady who’s being weird so their parents have a fighting chance of getting out of the store with their sanity intact and with everything on their shopping list accounted for. Because it takes a village, kids can be a handful sometimes even if they’re the chillest and coolest and smartest kids in the world and also because I’m not a hateful asshole who thinks the young of my own species are some sort of malign enemy. That’s just me, but as I said, I’m old and weird.
I’ve never been in the “we need a like button” contingent, but this is pretty persuasive.
Fuck 'em if they can’t take a joke.
Now that’s not funny.
I did! The whole thing, all by myself!
And a small child harassing random strangers for money needs to be taught appropriate boundaries. Usually that’s the parent’s job, but in this case I guess she was too “tired.”
Well, I’m glad you concede that he wasn’t obligated to buy the little shit a lunch box.
Even without considering that this was directed at a 4-year-old - and regardless of whether it is truth or fantasy - anyone who would write this:
…is a World Class Douchebag.
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Eh, the brat’s obviously a lost cause. Definite future libtard, with his “gimme gimme gimme,” expecting everything to be handed to him rather than take the initiative to beat up a smaller kid and take his lunchbox.
A parent is out shopping with two young children, while one is on the edge of a meltdown, and you put ironic quotes around “tired”?
Miller, Ima go out on a limb and guess childcare ain’t your area of expertise, either.
Yes, but only to indicate that I don’t think that’s a sufficient excuse to let your kid be a pest to other people.
Very much not so, and I’ve made some effort to make sure it won’t ever be one. That’s why I’m glad we’ve got people like Scylla out there, willing to step up and make sure this country’s hoards of feral, unparented children learn appropriate behavior from someone.
Christ almighty, dude. Didn’t realize asshole by proxy was a real syndrome.
Holy smokes, Scylla is still around?
Thank god I never run into him. He’s been a douchebag since forever.
If being mean to the kid is the objective, you missed the best way.
Walk to the lunchbox display, and get a lunchbox exactly like the one the kid wants.
Stick around until you can go through the checkout line right in front of the kid.
Buy the lunchbox.
Leave the store.
Requires absolutely no words spoken.
The kid sounds plenty old enough to be directed by his mother not to harass strangers in public. Some parents seem to be so used to tantrums at home that they either don’t realize or don’t care what effect they have on other people.
Mom could’ve apologized to Scylla for her child bugging him and requested he not loudly admonish him.
Based on the story it doesn’t seem like the little screamer was psychically scarred for life, but then again maybe he’ll be working out this trauma with his analyst later on. 
Sadly, I’ve never had a face that could shock a child into sudden calm. Babies in supermarkets do seem to stare at me in slack-jawed awe. Could be the beard.
Scylla did not teach him anything about boundaries. Which is exactly why he went right back to his previous behavior.
But who am I to get in the way of some frothy outrage against a mother none of us known anything about, based purely on a snap judgement from a dude bragging about how scary his own sneer is? Carry on.
Because that was in doubt? What a cunty thing to say.
Triskadecamus:
Nah. The best way would be to slap it silly until it collapses into an unconscious heap. Then you place one of your hob-nailed boots on its back and let loose with a mighty roar of conquest.
I raised a “difficult” child, and it was harder’n shit, but we never attempted to crush her spirit or physically abuse her. She graduated Yale Magna cum Laude and is currently working on her doctorate in Modern European History at U. Of Chicago, doing her research in Vienna, Trieste, and Ljubljana.
Seriously. I know I’m hella sensitive because I’m like 6 feet in the trenches right now, but gotdamn some of these posts.
Proxy?! Hey, I don’t need to hang around Scylla to pick this stuff up. I’m a natural asshole on the subject.
C’mon, man. Scylla told a misbehaving kid “no” and gave him a stern look, and you’re acting like he horsewhipped him.
The kid might have been mentally impaired. Or maybe he was really three and was big for his age.
I don’t know if the story was pit-worthy, but someone looking for attaboys for messing with a little kid is practically begging for negative feedback.