August 23, 2008
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Mean Girls
After I dropped Ken off at work this afternoon, I went to the supermarket across the street.
There was a woman and two little girls (each about 8-10 years old) walking in before me.
As we enter the store, one little girl squeals out, “There’s Wendyyyyy!”, and the two of them run off.
They seemed happy to have spotted this Wendy girl.
The woman says nothing. By the time her girls (I assume they’re hers) take off, she’s checking out melons. I had stopped to check out fruit salad on an endcap.
Wendy was looking at the candy and snacks in front of the registers when the two girls attacked.
Wendy was WAY smaller than the two girls… and there were TWO of them. They pushed her down, one girl grabbed Wendy’s hair and the other girl slapped her face…a LOT.
Horrified, I yelled to their mother, “Ma’am? Your kids are beating up that little girl!” and I pointed.
I guess i expected her to break it up, make the girls apologize to Wendy, talk to Wendy’s parents, leave the store and punish her daughters.
She shrugged and looked at me as if to say something like, “Ehhh. kids! Whattayagonnadoo?”
This scared me more than the fighting.
By the time I had told the woman what was happening and she gave me her “so what?” shrug, two cashiers had broken up the fight and were looking around, I assume, for parents.
I went up to them and pointed at the woman… who, by the way, was still looking at melons.
A manager-looking fellow in the dark green jacket strolled up to the melon lady, followed by the two cashiers pulling her daughters along. Wendy followed them, alone.
It was like i just could NOT mind my business. Normally, I would have left at that point, because it looked like there was an end to the incident in sight, and it didn’t involve me. But I just had to know how this was going to end…
So I stood by the fruit salad and listened. I could hear very little of the conversation but I learned this:
These girls explained to their mother that they were “just having fun”.
Wendy said she was there without her parents.
The mother-person said the girls are good kids, they just have a lot of energy.What the hell???
Comments (14)
Ummm…what the heck??? Were you shopping in the twilight zone, Vanessa?
The event you described just sounded so wrong! What on Earth has the world come to? *shakes head*
Um.
I would have slapped their mother?
Absolutely horrifying.
Nothing I hate more than useless indifferent parents.
Thank you for sharing this.
@La_dolce_vida - I know what you mean. I never wanted to attack anyone, and with MY mom and dad, I never would have even THOUGHT about doing it!
@HeartOfPandora - I felt like it, believe me… and I don’t think I was the only one!
@Bricker59 - I can’t stand it, either. What are these kids going to be like when they are adults?
that is so scary
My mother would have slapped the face off my head if I even THOUGHT of acting that way.
The apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I would have stopped them and done more for Wendy afterward.
typical example of not wanting to take the responsibility of your own kids, but see if anything was to happen to her own kids, say they feel and accidentally bumped into some things can got hurt, you can almost imagine the mom going hysterical and suing when the hell are parents gonna own up and take responsibility that their children are really, Their responsibility?
heartbreaking to see children having to grow up with such values as held by the mother.
Wendy needs to start carrying a gun.
@digood1974 - I know. Sad, huh?
@cappodocia - I learned long ago that unless death is imminent, I need to stay out of other people’s kids’ “incidents” (or whatever you want to call it)… 9 times out of 10 I am attacked (usually just verbally!) because I’m not minding my business, then it comes out that I have no children of my own… so, you know… what would I know??? I assume that the store manager called Wendy’s parents, or did SOMETHING. I actually know a couple of people that work there; I’ll probably find out what happened…
@brandonlkj - That actually scared me more than the fighting itself… her non-reaction!
@storyslut - I’d laugh, but, you know. it wouldn’t surprise me if Wendy buys one during recess…
@SamsPeeps - Yeah, not really funny. I am a “childless expert” as well. But we still know when parents are being almost criminally lazy.
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