Probably the people sitting on it.
Well, when those “little shits of Walmart” Youtube videos start making the email rounds, at least we can say “hey, we know those parents from the SDMB”.
DON’T TOUCH MY BABY!!!
The irony is, those parents are going to fuck that kid up way way way worse than your attempted saucery did.
Here’s what ultimate fighter Bas Rutten thinks the OP should have done with that girl’s dad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAHTGs8ikc
So, more info:
This guy apparently has gotten in a number of fights when he’s been drunk. And apparently, the fact that I looked like an AY-RAB or an ISLAMISMS was a factor here.
Okay, you parents can rest assured. I will not stop taking Tabasco sauce from toddlers, even if it means that the situation will end up like taking Tabasco from a toddler.
Not to mention those sitting under it. Much worse for them.
I understand that can get you executed in Saudi Arabia.
Nice.
I don’t even like Tabasco sauce much. it’s not 'real" hot. It just pretends to be. 
More for the toddlers, I guess.
Wait wait wait… you didn’t tell us that.
The people who paid for it? The people who have to sit on it when it gets broken? People who have to end up dealing with the kid who doesn’t seem to be taught manners from their parents? …
And what if clueless kid stepped in dog shit or has gum or other nasties on the bottom of his shoes? Have fun sitting in that mess, next guy! It’s a dick move to allow it, period.
A little late responding here, but those scenarios? No good. You’re still a bad parent in all of them.
Life can be really simple if you make it that way.
Don’t forget “the insurance company that will have to deal with the medical expenses to repair the kid’s broken neck and the lawsuit against the doctor’s office for failing to prevent the father from allowing the kid to jump up and down on obviously faulty and dangerous office furniture.”
It gets more complicated if you’re trying to run a shell game with no pea.
Well now. I hope everyone in this thread who just jumped to the conclusion that there was simply no reason to start yelling at BrightNShiny feels suitably abashed.
Thanks for clearing this up. Next time, stop looking so much like an Arab while the guy’s drinking and you won’t have any problems.
And definitely don’t go helping any toddlers in any airports, either.
Totally agree. The guy shouldn’t have grabbed him unless the kid was falling but saying something? As one who has shouted out “Who belongs to this brat??” on more than a few occasions when seeing a kid running around a restaurant, store or pulling stuff off of shelves, I agree that someone needs parenting classes badly. The old guy wouldn’t have had to do a thing if the parents had been doing their job.
Are you joking? (Honestly can’t tell.)
If there was a sign over the couch that says “This couch is for jumping!” then still only a bad parent would let a kid jump on it?
I didn’t (and continue not to) supply the missing information for a few reasons:
- No one wins such discussions on the SDMB
- It does not matter to me whether anyone here thinks it was reasonable
- I’m taking a stand on principle–two of them:
a) I never talk about parenting with any justificatory or condemning intent
b) I shouldn’t have to provide any such “missing” info–the effort it takes for people to leap to conclusions from a single manifestly-incompletely-descriptive sentence is not an effort I should have to go to any lengths to negate.
I think there were some other reasons I’ve given in this thread, but those are the ones that come to mind.
Jesus fucking christ, Frylock, give it a rest already. Just. Shut. Up.