To get annoyed at people moaning about crying kids at the supermarket?

[mysonben]

Well i work on checkouts at a superstore, more often than not i can hear a toddler somewhere in the queue at the checkouts having a fit, a tantrum , a cry ... whatever you may call it.
And more often than not some grumpy sod will make a annoyed comment about it! Such as " i would have smacked that kid by now if it was mine!"

I remember (seared into my brain) an epic National Express coach journey from Ilfracombe to London, where 18 month old dd shrieked for most of the entire hour trip. I felt very sorry for (a) myself and (b) all the other passengers by the end of it.

Mind you, I think dd was vocalising what all us passengers thought i.e. total and utter despair at the thouhght of sitting on a coach all that time!

Feel very sorry for mothers in supermarkets with screamers. I also think thank god that part of my life is over

"Bugger off back to Menopause Mansion and do your shopping online if you can't stand the sounds of society"
"Well it's a good job you'll be dead by the time he starts paying his share of the tax burden, then"
Two genuine retorts to consider using.
(One was mine....I'm not saying which, but it gained me a big grin from the cashier at Boots).

nine dragons post a bit back made me cry,, but pagwatch made me cry with laughter....

I remember shopping once with a screaming child attatched to my ankle, (thank god for shiny shop floors), trying to pretend i didn't realise he was actually there, (I was heavily pregnant) until I realised he had started to enjoy it and thought it was a game...

prints off minouminou's reply and pops in handbag for future use...

LOL Pagwatch!

Toddlers throwing a tantrum are a fact of life - these people are nuts.

I always feel relief when I hear one now - that is isn't my child and he is past that stage.

Rather than a slap what these children are probably hearing is the word 'no' being enforced. A much better lesson for the whole of society. I know I could have avoided 75% of my son's tantrums if I had just given in but he would still be throwing them now, at nearly 5, if I had!