General Etiquette > Family and Children
Please keep your kids away from me
kingsrings:
This thread was kind of inspired by the "Doesn't it make you want one?" thread. I'm talking about the situations in public when someone lets their kids run around, and they end up getting in your way, and the parent doesn't do anything about it. The worst is at restaurants booth-seating when the kid at the next booth will stand up on their seat and peer over at you while you're sitting there trying to have a meal and a nice visit with your friends. Or they go underneath your stall in the bathroom or dressing room, or just do anything that invades your space and property. Anywhere in public and some kid you've never seen before will come up and do something start bugging you, and the parents just think that it is sooo cute, and do nothing to stop little precious. I want to have kids of my own someday, but until that, I don't like little kids at all, and this aggravates me to no end when it happens. I don't know how to react, so most of the time I just ignore it when it happens and hide my irritation. I just wish that parents would realize that and not 'sic' their kids on me or any other strangers in public.
kiero:
Hi, normally I don't like it when children invade my space in public. But I've never understood why stding up in the booth is an invasion of space. I will soon have a toddler and if I understand the objection then I am far more likely to make it a requirement not to do so.
I guess to me as long as the kid's shoes are clean (if he/she is old enough to walk) thenwhat's the harm.
Chartreuse:
Perhaps it's the time to invest in having a "potential kidnapper" tshirt printed up? ;)
Yeah, a valuable lesson to teach kids is to not invade the space of other people. I appreciate when people at least make the effort to try to get their kids to not run amuck...
kingsrings:
--- Quote from: kiero on January 10, 2007, 06:46:08 PM ---Hi, normally I don't like it when children invade my space in public. But I've never understood why stding up in the booth is an invasion of space. I will soon have a toddler and if I understand the objection then I am far more likely to make it a requirement not to do so.
I guess to me as long as the kid's shoes are clean (if he/she is old enough to walk) thenwhat's the harm.
--- End quote ---
Standing up in a booth and leaning over and peering at me, making faces, etc., is an invasion of my space.
kingsrings:
--- Quote from: Chartreuse on January 10, 2007, 06:46:51 PM ---Perhaps it's the time to invest in having a "potential kidnapper" tshirt printed up? ;)
--- End quote ---
I've got a confession to make that is near to this. One time at a place I worked, this mother let her little monster run rampant. He came running into the breakroom and started bugging the heck out of myself and the others who were trying to eat and enjoy our lunch. He was in our faces yelling and trying to grab our food and stuff, just being a total brat and monster. When we complained to the mother, she snapped back that he wasn't doing anything wrong and just let him continue to do it. So the next time he did it to me, I told him that I was about to do something really bad to him if he didn't leave me alone. The mom overheard and came and took her kid away pretty fast.
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