Grocery shopping and kids....there should be a law

Decided to take Fri. off at the last minute. Basically got tired of bi-polar being on the cross whenever the bosses wife was around and I wanted to get my shopping done BEFORE all the mommies with those damn race car and mommy and me shopping buggies hit the aisles. Not that I have anything against kids and mommies (I was one myself) but when did grocery shopping become a kid sport? I mean, we had buggies. Period. Depending on how many kiddies, you each held the side of the cart and baby tied nicely in the seat. The end. If you let go of the buggy and started racing around the store or pitched a bitch when you were told No you got taken outside and your mom had a talk with your butt. Nobody wanted their butt talked to. So consequently you never let go of the buggy and pretty much held your tongue lest you got the evil eye and a trip "outside".

How many times have you heard this "If you don't stop your going to time-out"? Time out is bullshit in a grocery. Where exactly are these mommies going to put them? The freezer section?
How many times have you dodged or been run into by terrorists running through the grocery? For example the 2 pre-teen boys playing "tag" in Publix. Mom is shopping very nonchalant turns and says "stop running". This causes "fast walking". Which turned into them flying around the aisle smack into my buggy which was propelled into me while I was looking for the right stuffing and running up my heel. I had been dodging these boys since they came in behind me. Totally pissed I turned and said "knock it off your in a grocery store for gods sakes didn't your mother teach you better". I wasn't yelling and I wasn't quiet. Mom looks at them then me. I am silently begging her to say just one word...please. No such luck. She just says "See what you did, didn't I tell you to stop running"? Gave me an ugly look, moved my buggy and proceeded up the aisle. The terrorists intermittently looking back at me and laughing. She never once apologized or said anything to those boys. I had to fight every urge I had not to "accidentally" run up the back of her heel with my buggy. Violence? You bet. As I was leaving they were checking out 2 registers over and they were punching and shoving each other and kept banging in to the cart behind them. Good 'ol mom......she never "noticed" a thing.

This is not a playground. In case you haven't noticed its a grocery store, a place of business, breakables, crowded. I don't think I'm alone in this thought. How many times have you stood at the register silently praying for the parent behind you to "please do something". Pop a butt, smack a hand. Anything! Why should other people be subject to your non stop "Stop that, I'm not going to tell you again" rhetoric for the bazillionth time or the non stop whining child. Because you feel by ignoring it your teaching them they aren't going to get their way by whining. Give me a break!

Society says spanking a child is:
1)A form of child abuse
2)Demeaning (I guess your child's screaming, back talking terrorist actions aren't?) 3)We are teaching our kids violence and they will grow up to be degenerates of society (worse yet mass murders and they will blame you!)
4)We are giving them low self esteem by embarrassing them

But what are you teaching your child when you never follow thru? Where is the right and wrong of the "I'm going to's or not going to's". The child knows this, you know this so why even bother? Parents worry about movies, music, the Internet. Take a look in the mirror? Who will your child learn from? Where are the tools to exist as a positive member of society coming from? If your tool box is full of empty threats and promises, then your child's tool box will be empty.

As Bill Cosby said recently "You are the parent, not the friend act like it"!