I met my wife at the mall today to eat lunch at a restaurant there. I got on an escalator in a dept store and noticed a woman's shoe a couple of steps up. I got to the top and bent down to pick it up and another one came up. I looked back down and a little boy about 4 or 5 years old was getting women shoes off a display and putting them on the escalator and watching them ride. As I watched him he would put one on the escalator and then hide behind the display and watch it. After about 5 times a couple women saw it and you should have heard the commotion as they were hollering trying to find his mother. After several of them got together looking they found she was sitting behind him trying on shoes. I went on and when I came back through I saw him again. I could tell he was wanting to get into something as he was running from one end of the escalator to the other as his mother was still trying on shoes. I could see me doing that when I was that age. My mother would have tore my tail up. Also, she would have had me sitting beside her to start with.
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Don't get me started on a lot of today's parents!
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That sounds like one of those where the mother says (if anything) "that behavior is unacceptable."Comment
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kids? hum....
If that had been me, my parents would have taken the belt to my hind parts right then and there in front of God and everybody and did not care if they liked it or not!
Don't get me started about these younger aged parents with no sense of
responsibility about them and the lack of discipline they use on their kids....
just makes me want to jerk a few knots in their hides to get their attention!
eezlock ( adult from an older generation)Comment
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Yeah, or maybe she'll resort to bribery or one of those highly effective "time-outs." But you can bet if the kid got tangled up in the escalator or fell down and split his lip she'd be the first to sue.
She can't possibly be expected to try on shoes AND monitor her child's behavior. That's just unreasonable.Comment
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Some of todays parents are well meaning even if their parenting is bad. One of the problems is the media and the schools have convinced them that their kids have rights. The only rights I had when I was growing up were those given to me by my parents. I grew up in what was referred to as a benevolent dictatorship. My LOL says that she had the right to go outside and pick her own switch. I had the right to get up close and personal with my dads belt. I knew two things for sure though: the discipline was done with love and they didn't always catch me.Comment
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A prank like that would have won me a one way ticket on the express escalator to the afterlife in very short order with perhaps a woman's size 9 in the seat of my britches.
LeeComment
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When I was a kid we went to visit my grandparents in the Philly suburbs for Turkey Day. My dad would take us into the city for Xmas shopping and we'd go to Wanamakers. Every year some of us got into trouble for running up the down escalators and vice versa.David
The chief cause of failure in this life is giving up what you want most for what you want at the moment.Comment
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Do you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
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Does anyone remember Hot Wheels track? I think I still have it tattooed acrossed my hind parts!Comment
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Do you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
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Lets see...shoes up the elevator...sounds cool...that might make my afternoon.
When I was a kid, there was electricity, but not too many escalators. My mother used to take my sister and I to this one department store that had what I called "the stairway to heaven". It happened to be next to the clothing department. As my mother and sister browsed the displays, I would very quietly be sitting at the bottom of the stairs within view of the two of them. I was small (that didn't last long) and unassuming as a child.
Then the first time that I actually got into big trouble was when I heard my sister yelling out to my mother "Mommy, mommy, he's looking up ladies skirts!".Comment
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Well I'd have gotten my butt whipped, right there in front of God and everybody and would have done the same to my own kids but.............It would have been extremely hard to not to be laughing out loud while I was doing it. I'm sorry but the image of a little "Dennis the Menace" putting shoes on an esclator just tickles my funny bone. PatWoodworking is therapy.....some of us need more therapy than others. <ZERO>Comment
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My daughter April has twin 3 year old boys. Some things they are not scared of and some things freighten them beyond reason (in my opinion). They are identical twins but polar opposites in personality. What one is scared of the other isn't and vice versa.
A few weeks ago, April took them to Little Rock to a department store and for the first time that they could remember, they got on an escalator with their mom.
There were two reactions: Ben got on in front of April, but Andrew was hanging back and jerked his hand from his mom at the last second screaming. He was NOT going to get on. April had to turn around and run back to get Andrew but then Ben was half way down. What does a mom do? Ben turned around as the escalator got to the bottom and saw his mom at the top. He started screaming and tried to run up but tripped. His pants got caught in the escalator and ripped them. About this time a sales lady watching reached the stop button for the escalator. At the ripping of the pants, Ben started screaming!
The store gave Andrew and Benjamin a set of clothes to make up for the torn clothes.Last edited by leehljp; 03-09-2007, 07:33 AM.Hank Lee
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted!
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To everybody compaining about the lack of discipline in parenting these days, keep something in mind. When I was a kid in the 70's, nobody would have thought twice if my mom smacked me in a store for misbehaving. Today, parents are lucky to not get arrested for doing the same thing.-JoeComment
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