# I can't believe I almost swore at a 4 year-old **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040 "2008-05-12T16:23:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/21 "2008-05-12T20:12:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] … since the bullets for my Glock 9mm stupidly have my monogram on the shell it was too risky, I was at wit’s end. [/QUOTE] See, that’s the problem with you gay guys… always putting fashion before function. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/22 "2008-05-12T20:41:13Z")
I think there ought to be a Taser-Tot to stun small children into senselessness for being little shitheels. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/23 "2008-05-12T20:51:42Z")
Most of the time, although the kids are the problem the parents are at fault. So go ahead and use the full-strength tazer on the adults. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/24 "2008-05-12T20:55:30Z")
Nice phrase, “sweet, buttery fuck”. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/25 "2008-05-12T21:04:08Z")
I want a Taser-Tot!!! ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/26 "2008-05-12T21:06:38Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] Agreed. It’s pretty easy to tell what kind of homes my kids’ friends come from, just by observing how they play with each other and talk to each other. I too am of the, “HEY! Quit hitting my kid, and WHERE ARE YOUR PARENTS?” school in this type of situation. [/QUOTE] Kids also imitate their peers, however. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/27 "2008-05-12T22:12:47Z")
I usaly just ‘tsk’ (or whatever you call that noise) loud enough and give them a hard stare. Hey it works on my cats, why not kids… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/28 "2008-05-13T02:24:21Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Kids also imitate their peers, however. -FrL- [/QUOTE] And apparently Cruella de Ville, as I learned a few days ago as I hushed my three year old from hollering “Listen you idiot!” in the middle of Walgreens. I just felt the judgement flowing from my fellow shoppers. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/29 "2008-05-13T02:26:33Z")
Hey, maybe she knows your boy from somewhere. She may have been settling a score. Or perhaps acting on behalf of a friend – word gets around, you know. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/30 "2008-05-13T02:41:50Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] Hey, maybe she knows your boy from somewhere. She may have been settling a score. Or perhaps acting on behalf of a friend – word gets around, you know. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that preschool circuit is brutal. Word spreads like wildfire and next thing you know, you’re alone at snack and get no sand box toys. Life’s a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/31 "2008-05-13T03:41:22Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] I think there ought to be a Taser-Tot to stun small children into senselessness for being little shitheels. [/QUOTE] Funniest thing I’ve read all day. 😃 I don’t have kids yet, but I’ll be looking for a Taser-Tot™ when I do. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/32 "2008-05-13T04:11:30Z")
I’d want to borrow those little girls, but unfortunately the targets are too old for them now. I’d love to sick them on the children of the Parents From Hell I used to know who refused to control or discipline their children, or to allow anyone else to do so. Just to see their reaction. I’m sure it would be entertaining. The Mother From Hell would probably physically assault the little bastards and go so completely berzerk that she had to be tasered and taken down, whereupon she’d claim Police Brutality and insist that she hadn’t done anything at all, despite numerous eye witnesses. As for the OP, I’d sure be tempted to grab the little girls by the arms and escort them away, but other posts have convinced me that this would probably only be par for the course for their lives. Picking up your own kid is the best move. Muttering “Little Fucking Bastards…” as you do so. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040/33 "2008-05-13T04:53:28Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] I am also one of “those” people. [/QUOTE] Me too. I had my boy (3 at the time) at a park when this asshole 6-7 year old started pushing all the little kids down the slide because, I dunno, they were taking too long for him or something. Anyway, it was just a cracked skull waiting to happen and this brat’s parents were even closer to the whole mess than I was but they said nothing. Not a peep as they did whatever in the world was more important than being parents. So I’m like “HEY! STOP PUSHING!” and his parents suddenly awoke and they called him over and I’m sure he got a “talking to” of some kind :dubious: and he started throwing a fit (which… ugh, I cannot stand stupid, whiny kids and their loud, shrieky tantrums about nothing) and then they left. And I’m like “Good. What a prick! Can you believe those parents?” to a friend who was with me who looked at me like I was some kind of a crazy person. Friend (totally sincerely): Aww, look. You got him into trouble and now he has to go home. Poor kid. Yeah, poor asshole kid who couldn’t control his impulses despite being well old enough to know better and whose parents couldn’t possibly have been more oblivious. Poor, stupid family. Boo hoo. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-believe-i-almost-swore-at-a-4-year-old/449040.md?page=1)