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@gingerbebe: this for real!!! People look at me crazy when I tell them my child has only ever been out after dark twice since birth (he's 14.5months). My kid needs his sleep. My MIL is always "if you keep him up later he'll sleep later", yea...no not my child he gets up by 7 period. It doesn't matter what time we go to bed lol.

Anyways for clarification I have always worked in a retail or customer service situation. my number 1, is when people let the children destroy everything. Literally the majority of parents I have been around just let thier children have free reign of the store thier in. At one point I worked for a sports store where we carried workout weights, And we had a bench on display. Kids were constantly playing with the weights, and there was clearly signs posted everywhere about not touching the weights. One time was so bad I had told these 2, probably 4 and 6 year old to quit playing with the weights 3 times. It was as if they had never heard the word no before. The mother never said a thing, didn't even acknowledge that I had told her children not to do something. I finally lost it, walked up to her and told her if she couldn't control her satanic children that she needed to get the hell out of my store. I swear to god I was fully prepared to lose my job over that but I could take NO MORE that particular day. The sad part is more parents were like her than not. My child will always have to either hold my hand in a store or ride in the basket. i would forever feel horrible if somebody else ever has to clean up after my child.

@mrsrain: hahaha, this cracked me up because, I swear I do this to adults! A friend of mine was crying the other day and I was all "your fine". I swear I just have no idea how to comfort people. I'm totally going to work on this.

We have a family in our lives who let their kids climb on everything and think it's adorable. They also don't watch closely and I have had to rescue their child from swivel bar stools, standing on the tray of our IKEA high hair, etc. These kids are constantly standing on my coffee table, climbing up the arms of my nice sofa and the parents are over the moon that their little monkey is going to be a gymnast. Ummm, no- your little monkey is going to be in the ER because you can't be bothered to teach them not to climb on all the things! We just saw them so this is fresh, lol.

@Anagram: lol- maybe I'll get a climber for my second now and I'll be on the other side of it. I hope I didn't anger the karma gods!! This family literally talks about how adorable their kid is as they are ruining my furniture, though- that's the worst part for me.

It has been spring break by us for the past two weeks and the first thing I thought of was bringing older kids/siblings into an area that is specifically for younger kids (like signs that say a certain age range and the kid is very clearly too old). We were at a McDonald's play place the other day and there was a 12-13 year old, heavier set kid HANGING from the outside of play structure. He continually jumped up and grabbed bars to hang from. It seemed so unsafe with little kids playing up in the structure and it was showing the younger kids some inappropriate behavior. He was there with younger siblings and grandparents and no one said anything. I actually heard the grandparents praise his pull-ups!

The snacks in non-food places bother me, too. It always causes a meltdown for my son.

I think my annoyance could be summed up as parents not following the rules. It sets such a bad example for all kids around and can be a huge safety issue.

Forward facing before age 2. Other states made it illegal for a reason!

Thanks to all who justified my complaining about nuts in public - I'm glad my post came off more like a PSA and less like whining!

@hellobeeboston: I have to say, with the screaming in a store... I mean I would have tried to stop the crying but seriously, sometimes you just need the groceries. Like we are out of milk and bread and we drove ten minutes to the store... I'm going to get the damn groceries even if you have a tantrum. I was that mom in target recently. Both my kids had a meltdown at the same time for about five minutes. But I had driven 20 minutes to get there and was so so so tired. I just needed the stuff so we could go home.

@Foodnerd81: See, that sorta just proves what I was saying... I very rarely am annoyed but other parents/parenting because you never know what is going on, mostly I just want to commiserate with them... I'm sure MOST of the time there is a valid excuse for whatever it is that others may 'disapprove of'.... and I'm saying "disapprove of" with big air-quotes.

That TJ's screaming was next-level though.... it was pretty epic.

@gingerbebe: but seriously, what if she had no food in the house?? That said mine may have cried a lot, but she didn't have that ear piercing scream you describe.

Meanwhile i am so grateful for peapod grocery delivery.

I think my biggest annoyance is parents who let kids that are way too old and big use the mall playground. A 10 year old should not be running at full speed and jumping off of play structures in a place meant for the 4 and under crowd. It's posted the max height is 48 inches but so many parents disregard it.

@gingerbebe: PREACH

@2littlepumpkins: oh yeah the illness thing drives me bonkers too.
I have a friend who is just the sweetest woman ever. She's just so nice and positive and you'd be a monster to not like her. But...I saw her at the playground once with her son when I know the day before he was vomiting and had nonstop diarrhea. In my head I was like "noooooo! Why?????" It doesn't compute in my brain!