# Buy Me Lunchbox! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949 "2019-08-20T18:26:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949/41 "2019-08-21T11:12:16Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > This was a really great story, except this genre customarily ends with some variation on “everyone clapped.” And that lunchbox? An [Albert Einstein lunchbox](https://www.etsy.com/listing/612795521/kids-lunch-box-albert-einstein-lunchbox). ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949/42 "2019-08-21T11:54:54Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I would get out my credit card, wave it wand-like over the lunchbox, and tell the kid it was paid for. Or buy the lunchbox, in full view of the kid…and then take it home for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949/43 "2019-08-21T14:24:55Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Or buy the lunchbox, in full view of the kid…and then take it home for yourself. Screaming “I BUY LUNCHBOX!!” the whole way out the store… ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949/44 "2019-08-21T14:25:57Z")
…and I’m praying it was a Pittsburgh Steelers lunchbox… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949/45 "2019-08-21T15:09:12Z")
As a store cashier, I know I’m going to encounter this scene at least once every shift. I ask the child to see the item, ask the parent if they are buying it. If not, I just put it under the counter. I notice that most parents who have out of control kids are out of control themselves. They are too busy looking for their right credit card while gabbing on the cell phone to do anything about their little darlings. And the ones that say “Don’t discipline my child.” Lady, if your child gets behind the cash register and starts pushing buttons, you bet your dumb ass I’m going to tell him to get out from there. And when you complained to the manager, what did he say. “Oh. So she was doing her job.” Better in my book was the father who, when I told his two daughters they could not be behind the register, said in a no-nonsense tone “You get out from behind there. Haven’t I told you not to do that.” I have a system for dealing with loud crying children. I go up to them and look them straight in the face, and ask “Who is making all that noise. I know it’s not you because you’re too little to make all that noise.” Then I look at the parent and say “How do little people make so much noise? I couldn’t be that loud if you put a gun to my head.” I don’t know why, but that usually shuts the kid up. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949/46 "2019-08-21T19:07:50Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I’m kind of that shithead sort of person that thinks he is being admirably frank by saying out loud things that shouldn’t be said. Sorry. > > As for being proud of my look? Well, maybe you are really good at Golf or swimming, or at the top of your profession. I go with what I got. > > It felt goooood. > > No fucking question that this is true. > > I get that you are pointing out to me that I am not the hero of this story, and in fact, I am kind of a shithead. > > I know this. Why it makes me happy is that rarely do I get to use my worst qualities in such a rewarding way. > > And I was happy. I was smiling like an idiot when I walked out of Target. The encounter made my day. Moderating: if you want to celebrate being a self-professed shithead you won’t be doing it in MPSIMS where posters can’t respond in kind. I would have moved this to the Pit but since there is already a thread there I’m just going to close this one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buy-me-lunchbox/838949.md?page=2)