Christine the Curmudgeon

Just when Christine the Curmudgeon thinks that people can’t be more inconsiderate than they already are, something like this comes along:

Peeing in the Verizon store, how fun!

Yes, I went to the Verizon store on miller Rd. in Flint, Mi. to purchase a new phone for my daughter and add her to the family plan for her birthday. The employees had a smile but no sense. I have 4 kids total ranging in age 13, 5, 4, and 2. My 2 year old was in the store with me and he was without a diaper due to potty training. My 2 yr old told me he had to go pee now so I told the smiling ungentleman that my son has to go to the bathroom now or else he will go all over the floor. The guy said sorry but there is no bathroom. I asked another associate who was not helping me and he told me the same thing. So I told my son to just go and pee right there on the floor because the guy was taking his time with the new phone and refused to let my 2 yr old use their bathroom. So the smiling associate stayed smiling while my son peed all over. I was red in the face and my son was standing in pee in their store and the guy just smiled away. I went to Metro PCS. What kind of business doesnt allow a 2 yr old to go pee in their bathroom while they are in their store?

There is nothing that Verizon can do to make this better. They already showed that they don’t care. Superficial smiles don’t go a long way when you have no character behind it!

Yes, you read that right – this clown actually TOLD his kid to pee on the floor of the Verizon store!  What kind of life lesson is that?  Basically, every time this kid doesn’t get his way, he’ll feel justified in doing something like this in retaliation.

Now, I do understand that the kid is only 2 years old, and 2 year olds have small bladders and can’t hold it in very well.  I also understand that his parents are potty training him.  But, as several commenters on the Planet Feedback site pointed out, that is what pull-ups are for.  You know what those are, they are kind of a cross between underpants and diapers, designed for kids that are being toilet trained.  At the very least, the kid should have been wearing one while out in public.

Also, the Verizon store has no legal requirement to provide public restrooms.  Some stores do provide them as a courtesy, but unless it’s a dining/drinking establishment, they don’t have to.  And, as some people pointed out, there is a liability issue about letting customers use the employee restroom in the back.

Most Verizon stores I’ve seen are located in strip malls, and most strip malls have at least one restaurant that would have a public restroom.  This jerk should have excused himself from the store, took his kid there to pee, and returned to finish his business with buying the phone.

If I worked in that store, I’d have been livid.  I would have handed the guy a mop and a bucket and made him clean up the mess.  If per chance the floor was carpeted, well, he’d be getting the bill from Stanley Steemer for cleaning.

What if the place did have a public restroom, but it was a one-holer, and someone was in there using it when the kid had to go?  What if the kid couldn’t hold it long enough to wait?  And what if they were at home, and he had to go, and another family member was using the bathroom?  Would he tell the kid to pee on the floor of their home?  I think NOT!

I swear, there should be some sort of DNA testing for stupidity or something, before being allowed to reproduce.   It takes a special kind of stupid to take a toddler who is not quite potty trained yet out in public without a diaper or a pull-up!

The video contains swear words, watch at your own risk.

And this from a man who WAS a father…LOL!

So Christine the Curmudgeon has seen this on the news:  Bernie Madoff is dying of cancer.  I bet those keywords will get more hits to this blog, the best seo services say so…LOL!

Seriously…this pisses me off.  Just like it pissed me off when Ken Lay (of Enron fame) suddenly kicked the bucket shortly after he was sentenced to prison.  I’ve always suspected that Lay did himself in, because he couldn’t bear to give up the trappings of his ill-gotten luxurious life to spend time in the slammer.

In Madoff’s case, if he really does have cancer, he had no control over that.   I wish he DIDN’T have it, and that he’d have to live a good 15-20 years in the slammer.  It seems unfair that he may die soon, and get out of all of the daily suffering, without his fancy homes, cars, and other ill-gotten luxuries.

But if Madoff thinks that he might get a release on “compassionate grounds”, like the Lockerbie bomber just did, he is sadly mistaken.  This is the United States, not Scotland, we don’t have that law here.  Could you imagine the public outrage if Madoff DID get released due to having cancer?

If I ruled the world, Madoff would rot in prison, with NO treatment for his cancer, let him die slowly and in great pain.  But they’re not allowed to do that.  Even the skeeviest of criminals have the right to medical care.  Too bad, because perhaps some of the people he ripped off are sick and can’t afford medical care because of him.  Yet this criminal will get better care than they will.

What is wrong with this picture?

At least Christine the Curmudgeon thinks so.  Behold…(read it here if you want to)

Dear Amy: Your response to the thoughtful letter about adultery in our society included your surprisingly judgmental comments on divorce, and how people are “only kidding themselves” if they think such actions won’t affect the children. I agree.

But you failed to point out that deciding against divorce can also adversely affect children.

In most cases, children of unhappily married couples know the marriage is shot and are subject to terrific damage if the parents “stay together for the sake of the children.” I know, because at age 9, I was relieved when my warring, miserable, viciously angry parents divorced.

In fact, they became far better parents afterward.

The fact that you are a divorced parent left you looking rather hypocritical. Not all divorces are products of infidelity, and many are necessary for the sake of everyone involved, including the children.

You need to set the record straight.

– Perplexed

Dear Perplexed: I am a divorced mother and the daughter of a divorce. Because there was no warring involved in either relationship, I was spared what you went through as a child.

If I had been asked, I would have said I didn’t want either divorce to happen, but no one asked me.

Sometimes children may benefit from divorce — as you point out — because two separate and stable relationships are better than a messy, angry and chaotic home life. But kids are always affected by their parents’ actions.

Parents should try harder to stay together and work to improve their relationship for the sake of the children.

Parents tend to believe that their kids have a great stake in the parents’ personal happiness, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Kids want their own lives to be stable, first and foremost.

Amy is an effing IDIOT!  I spent most of my childhood WISHING that my parents would get a divorce.  My father was an abusive a-hole, and I’d have been happier to be rid of him.  But my mother would take us kids and leave, but she ALWAYS came back.  Always.

And my sperm donor not only beat me, but he beat my mother, too.  Yet she chose to be Catholic and *didn’t believe in divorce*.  A HUGE reason why I’m no longer a religious person.

My mother COULD have gotten a job and supported us, she could have worked for a mail order place, for example, doing order fulfillment. She did once work at a bakery, which was cool because we got free bread and cookies and stuff.  But my jerk of a father got her fired by showing up, nine sheets to the wind, being a complete a-hole, making a scene.

But she could have just left, and not told the a-hole where we were living, where she worked, etc.  However, she cared more about what the Pope thought, than what this a-hole was doing to her, and her kids (me and my brother).

So, I say that, in some cases, divorce is a good thing.  My life would have been so much better if there were no such thing as the friggin’ Pope, and my parents divorced.  DOG knows, many people advised her to divorce the bum.  The only way I got away from him was that I turned 18 and could legally move out.

Amy Dickinson is a serious moron.

This is one of Christine the Curmudgeon’s favorite commercials.  I’m glad that Staples brought it back again!

Although it also means that the minor league baseball season is over, I’ll still be happy when the little buggers are back at school, sitting at their classroom desks.  I am getting seriously tired of kids that don’t even live on our street, playing underneath our windows and making noise at all hours.  At least when they are in school, I get at least a few hours of peace.  Although, lately it seems that kids are out of school more than they are in it, even during the school year.  Why are we paying taxes for schools, if kids don’t have to go there as much as I did when I was a little rugrat?

I’m sure that many parents are happy that their kids are going back to school…surely the whole “Moooom, I’m boooooored!” stuff got very old very fast.

But when I was a rugrat, I learned very early on to NEVER confess to boredom.  To do so, in my house, meant having to do extra chores.  So I always managed to find things to do so I wouldn’t be bored.

Looking forward to the peace and quiet when the kids here go back…I think it’s after Labor Day, but I’m not sure.  I’ll just wait for the sound of silence outside my window!