Oblivious Parents On Phones

[agnes]

Drive me fucking crazy.  My heart is still pounding. 

This customer is on her phone and just letting her 2 small children run around the waiting room.  Off to the side, there is a large automatic sliding door that opens onto the valet.  The two kids were runing in and out.  One practically got stuck in the door.  The other running off into the street.  Thank fucking god there were no cars driving at that moment. 

When I run out there and ask the kid where his mommy is, she comes walking up giving me this dirty look. 

WATCH YOUR FUCKING KID AND STOP PLAYING WITH YOUR PHONE.

My blood is boiling.

[EmilieMadison]

Want to know what's worse? When parents do this and they're not even on their phone. They just sit there and watch. My sister may or may not be "that mom". 

[agnes]

Oct 28, 2013 10:37:19 GMT -5 EmilieMadison said:

Want to know what's worse? When parents do this and they're not even on their phone. They just sit there and watch. My sister may or may not be "that mom". 

I just don't understand this.  AT.ALL. 

How do you deal with your sister?  I prolly wouldn't be able to be around someone like that very often.  I'd be too stressed out that a kid would die on my watch.

[EmilieMadison]

Oct 28, 2013 10:46:57 GMT -5 agnes said:

Oct 28, 2013 10:37:19 GMT -5 EmilieMadison said:

Want to know what's worse? When parents do this and they're not even on their phone. They just sit there and watch. My sister may or may not be "that mom". 

I just don't understand this.  AT.ALL. 

How do you deal with your sister?  I prolly wouldn't be able to be around someone like that very often.  I'd be too stressed out that a kid would die on my watch.

I hate hanging out with her when she brings my niece and nephew. It's incredibly stressful and it makes me dislike her. I hate it. 

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There is a mom like thy at DD's and DS's gymnastics. She watches as her kid alternates between running out into the parking lot and asking all of the other parents for bites of their food. It's weird.

[Deleted]

We know one of these & she seems to be everywhere we are. Her kid fell & smacked her face on the concrete & was bleeding & the Mom never even looked up from FB.

4 real.

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Oct 28, 2013 10:59:32 GMT -5 Que? said:

Oct 28, 2013 10:54:48 GMT -5 @weeble said:

There is a mom like thy at DD's and DS's gymnastics. She watches as her kid alternates between running out into the parking lot and asking all of the other parents for bites of their food. It's weird.

We have one of these at gymnastics too. She has a newborn, so I give her major props for getting them both out, but her son is a holy terror and she will walk away to attend to the baby without asking someone to be another set of eyes and then all hell breaks loose.

That's funny- this mom also has a baby.  But she was exactly the same with her kid (actually, I think the kid was crazier- running around and bumping into everyone) before the baby was born, so I'm not sure she can use that as an excuse!