It has been a while since my last post, but I have been really busy with work and normal life errands!
It has been sorta stressful but needless to say God has been very merciful especially the last week! I am so thankful that He has allowed me to realize how much He has intervened for me in more ways than one...God is so good.
As I mentioned, I have been working lately, and with that obviously comes the nuisances of the public...from bad perfume to crazy kids I have seen a lot. Kids sure are scaring me these days...
Scenario 1 : Busy time at Trader Joes; lots of people, lots of noise; music stops for a song change and what do I hear as I'm ringing up a customer?
" MOOOOOOMMMMM IIIIIIIIIII HAAAAAATTEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!! "
ugh. excuse me. NEVER would I EVERRR tolerate my child speaking to me like that...let alone shrieking it across a public place.
needless to say the entire store stopped and looked over at the child who was shaking he was so mad...he was old enough to know how to walk (and old enough to know right from wrong...but that is besides that point) but it didn't matter because his mom dropped her basket full of groceries and dragged him out of there!
yeah.....that was a good laugh...definitely a conversation starter for my next customer and I...
Scenario 2: If you haven't figured out already that I work at Trader Joes then...well I do...now you know...and at Trader Joes we have a Demo station where you can try food samples that we prepare and put out for our customers to taste and learn about new products. We are happy to give customers second tastings and their children...however...on your child's FIFTH tasting I think they know that they like it....
A man and his son were hovering over the Demo section while I was putting more samples out...the son kept taking lemonade samples...I thought 'whatever, the next one he takes I will cut him off' well besides the little boy's obnoxious habit of making the task of throwing his trash away into a basketball game....at the last sample he took, he also grabbed a fork for the hot dog and then looked up at me and proceeded to make stabbing motions at me....I didn't really think anything of it...kids are on so many drugs these days I just sort of ignored it and chalked it up to ritalin or something
so the kid takes his 4th sample and then comes back AGAIN! I was like alright I'll let him take this one and tell him that enough is enough (all the while the father is watching from afar him take all these samples and only shaking his head)
So he is gathering yet another fork and hot dog sample and then he does the stabbing motion again towards me but this time he yells "I'm going to stab you and make your nose bleed" I was like 'uhhh what did you say?' then he repeated it even louder but this time leaning over the counter "I'm going to stab you with this (held the fork higher) and make your nose bleed" I was shocked...and kinda like freaked out...it was like a scary movie where all the 'innocent' kids bug out and start killing all the adults and puppies! His dad is watching ALL of this and slowly moseys on over nonchalantly and says "son, what is going on?" I looked at him with my 'your stupid' look and told him that his son was wanting to stab me. He chuckles and says...."oh yeah, too much spongebob" WHAT THE HECK IS ON SPONGEBOB THESE DAYS?!? the dad then tells the boy oh lets go...and he tries to got the son to walk away but the kid yells no and then comes to the entrance to behind the counter and says "I'm going to stab her" The dad had to literally pick his kid up and carry him over to the other side of the store.....
"Are you kidding me?" is probably the question you're wondering...it is what I was wondering too.... but then again stuff like this ALWAYS happens to me!
granted, I could take an 8yr. old boy with a plastic fork....but the fact that he was so persistent on stabbing me was a little disturbing!
That was only one hour in Demo...while the other girl went on lunch....today I am in Demo for 7.5 hours!
PHEW! I don't know what is happening...but parents seriously need to teach their kids some discipline and respect! I do know that if that child ever went crazy and did something stupid such as hurting someone, that father would not be able to use TV as an excuse in front of a judge...
can't wait to see what today holds in Demo....
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