There was a story a few months back (I believe it was on Kotaku) about how a child was left in a GameStop by their parents and the kid got nabbed by some creeper. The employee rescued the kid so all was well, but this is the reason why it’s wrong to leave your child in any place that is not a child care center. It is…

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Liability.

so does taking a crap, did your family do that in the middle of the restaurant too?

Because a book store isn’t a babysitter and you can’t just leave your kids. Well behaved or not, parents can’t just dump their kids elsewhere to go get their nails done/eat food/shop/whatever. Don’t want to have to deal with your kids? Get a babysitter before you go out.

The Greatest Irony of All: If it weren’t for women members, there would be no churches. Anywhere.

Yeah, that’s pretty standard shit at a bookstore. I worked at a place that was about a block away from a Cheesecake Factory. Mom and two cute kids in the 4-7 range came in around 11 AM one weekday morning. Mom disappeared shortly thereafter and the two kids hung out in our kids section (which had toys to play with…

I worked at Build A Bear and the number of parents who dropped their kids off and went Elsewhere was ridiculous. It got to the point where us peons were allowed to say something because it just happened too often and the managers couldn't catch it all.

At the library we once ended up calling the cops on a woman who had left her kid off at the library while she went in to work late to get some paperwork done. The kid was suppose to wait for her outside the library after it closed, at 9 pm in downtown next to the bar district. The mother didn't show up until 9:30 and…

Once while sitting on a bench waiting for my wife in the mall I saw a couple of "parents" send their 8 or so year old girl into the Gamestop before walking off. Very shortly the manager came running out and I happily pointed out the couple to him. he ran them down and made them take their kid back.

I used to work in a Radio Shack in a mall, back in the 90s. Now, a mall store at Christmas is hell on earth to begin with. And we were a mall store that sold toys, so square that. We actually had to take turns standing at the door to deflect children whose parents would drop them there and tell them “now you stay here…

Reading this post, I would never have guessed that people would be flying to the comments to defend that fart. I clearly have much to learn about internet commenting.

This may be the weirdest application of Pinkham’s Law yet.

God, this shit happened all the time when one of my ex-girlfriends worked at Borders. Because of the size of the store, they could never know if the parents were still there, but as the kid’s section supervisor it turned her job into a circus of apprehensive hovering when a toddler was just clomp-clomping around…

Ah, the Prosperity Gospel...

Free range kids is a thing, but unfortunately so is dumping your 4 year old at the bookstore so you can get your nails done and using "free range kids" as an excuse.

The McDonald’s and the Mall story reminds me of this -

When I get those almost frozen, individually wrapped butter pats, I hold them in my cupped hands for 20-30 seconds and it makes them easier to spread.

If I have to do a subtle cheek sneak in order to finish eating comfortably, I’ll take the chance. But to flagrantly lift up and toot, that’s just crossing the line.

Is this a serious comment? You don’t understand the difference between farting in a restaurant and dressing in a non-puritanical way?