When the Tail Wags the Dog…tiggerprr gets annoyed.
Today, we went out and got a new TV for the living room. I won’t pretend that I have any sort of understanding why this one is technically sound. Since my hubby is a Broadcast Engineer, I leave those sort of things to him. It annoys him I know, but I figure “It’s your bag, baby.” Just so long as I can watch 24, American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, I really don’t care what gizmos are getting me there, ya know what I mean?
So along with this new equipment (this is something else I don’t fully understand, nor care to), we need a plethora of new wiring to make the magic happen. You”ll have to cock your heads to the side along with me, as I ponder the miles of wiring that’s in jumbled heaps throughout our bedroom and in our garage neatly stored away in various strategic locations throughout our house, just in case a wiring emergency should rear it’s ugly head. I am assured, that this wiring is “different” and needed for the proper care and feeding of our new TV.
This may very well be the longest intro to me getting to the actual point of this post. We’re standing in Target to look at the new wiring that we apparently need to hook the Ninetendo Wii up to the new TV when I cannot help but be held prisoner by overhear the following conversation between a mom and her bratty ass 9 or 10 year old little girl:
They are looking at a Guitar Hero Game w/the Guitar controller. The girl is having an epileptic fit trying to convince her mother that she MUST have this holy grail of rock stardom.
Brat Kid (screeching so that everyone in a 10 mile radius can hear): “Come on, I want it I want it I want it!”
Stupid Mom: Now you know I had told you you’d get $10 a week to keep your room clean. If I give you this, that’s 2 weeks you’d have to go without any allowance.
Brat Kid: Well, if you gave me that $10 for the last 2 weeks, I’d have it.
Stupid Mom: But you didn’t keep your room clean, so you didn’t get it.
Brat Kid: “Cut out the chatter already and just get it for me”
Stupid Mom: ….
OK….I couldn’t bear to look at them…because I am certain that child would have been struck dead by one glance from me. I am after all, the Mom who yes, cancelled Christmas for my daughter when she was 6 or 7 for lying that one more time after I told her I would cancel Christmas if she did. We both learned a valuable lesson that year…but that’s another story for another time. But the mother…she needs her ass spanked. My child, at 17, much less at 9 or 10, would be begging for some sort of mercy from God himself if she ever spoke to me like that, and she damn sure wouldn’t be seeing her PS2 again for a few months, much less playing any sort of Guitar Hero on it without some form of Divine Intervention.
Hubby was so busy looking at the wires, he didn’t notice any of this transpiring so I explained the story to him. He asked me what the Mom said to the kid. I told him, she said nothing, and as far I could tell, there weren’t any consequences. I also pointed out that if a kid has the balls to say crap like that in public to their parent, it’s because the parent allows it to happen.
And people wonder why my answer to the “Dessert” portion of this week’s Friday’s Feast was what it was.
::sigh:: I just hope that Ashlyn will take care of me when I’m old.
August 5th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
We’re lucky we don’t have kids like that. When we go to Target, our kids can look at the toys, but they know we’re not getting them anything. Except for one or two times, our kids never whined about not getting toys. I’m not sure if we are just lucky or if it’s because set expectations early on.
I firmly believe it’s in the boundaries you set for them when they’re young. Teen years brings out a whole other beastie, but when they’re little, they can be controlled if people choose to. Your kids are so cute, I can’t imagine a scenario like the one I witnessed today.
August 5th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
“Cut out the chatter already and just get it for me”??????
To that I say that it would be worth going to jail. But I guess that’s easy for me to say – I don’t have kids. But I was a kid once, and I can’t imagine any scenario where I would ever even think to say something like that to my mother.
This is another parent that has been failing for as long as that child has been alive.
Oh, trust me, Ashlyn, had she said something like that to me at that age would STILL have a stinging behind at 17. LOL
August 5th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
If I ever said anything like that to my mom? I be writing this comment as a ghost because she’d have strangled me in front of everyone and gone to jail.
Wow, I could never imagine saying that. I could never even conceive of it. Parents nowadays suck. I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with some parents. seriously. they need to get their ass handed to them.
Stoopid!
August 6th, 2007 at 9:50 am
What is missing is the fear of Parents (as opposed to the fear of God).
Back in the day, I would have NEVER had the cajones to pull that off. My mother would have killed me. Dead.
The difference between then and now is that parents wouldn’t go to jail for busting their kids asses back then and they all fear it now. Not beating, just busting their ass. They usually remember it for the long haul. It’s the follow thru that matters the most.
You were right to cancel Christmas. You said you would and you did. That is how parents lose control, by not doing what they threaten to do and then kids just walk all over them. They know their parents won’t do a damn thing about whatever they say or do.
Such a shame. I am so beating my kids (kidding!).
August 6th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I’m with yoshi on this one, my mother wouldn’t spanked me in front of everyone before murdering me though. We knew we weren’t allowed anything when we went to stores and learned right off the rip you don’t ask for ANYTHING.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
I would never have spoken this way to my mother EVER, even as an adult, because I wasn’t raised to think I ever could. My daughter, at age 7, mouthed off to me, and I firmly popped her in the mouth (my fingers to her mouth). She was so startled; not physically hurt, but definitely startled. She hasn’t mouthed off since. Both of my kids learned from that one.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
If Girlie Girl acted like that (and she better not) we would have been out of that store in no time. There would definitely be some disciplining at home!
August 7th, 2007 at 4:27 am
I think it’s a guy thing.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:59 am
ummm, Wow.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
It wasnt that bad a conversation until cut the chatter. Then my dad would have given me a look of death, and then probably killed me on the ride home, without guitar hero by the way.