The Tantrum
One of my favorite things to do is to watch people in public places. I wish that they had a bench at the end of every grocery store isle so I could just sit and watch the people as they. It is by far the best entertainment in the greater Atlanta area.
Today I was in my local Kroger and I saw a tantrum by a 3 yr old boy that puts every tantrum I ever performed as a child to utter shame. I don’t know what his mother wouldn’t let him put in the cart but needless to say this kid was pissed off beyond belief. Apparently his parents didn’t use good language around him because he sounded like he lived in fraternity house sending expletives flying down the cereal isle for Captain Crunch and Dig ‘Ems inncocent ears to hear. He then proceeded to do the classic “lay on the ground and kick my legs in the air and scream at the top of my lungs” routine. However, his mother fought this with the classic “walk over your child, continue shopping and ignore them” routine. This tactic normally works but this kid had a new strategy up his sleave, he stood up and started throwing boxes of cereal on the ground and then jumping on them. The boxes weree mainly off of the first shelf because that is the only shelf he should reach. He was a considerate kid and threw the bad cereals such as “Total” and “Life” on the ground first. Store managers are smart and put the better cereals such as “Captain Crunch”, “Smacks”, “Lucky Charms”, “Fruit Loops”, and “Cinnamon Toast Crunch” on higher shelves so that these crown jewels of the breakfast world are kept safe. The mother then rushed and picked the son up left her cart and stormed out of the isle. I quickly followed to catch the end of the this epic tantrum. I thought the kid was about to get a beating right in front of the check out isle, but he had a trick up his sleave that I never used as a child. As his mother was setting him down to start the beating this kid threw up all over the place…including all over his mother. It was with this that everyone dispersed because the smell was quite terrible. I don’t exactly know what happened after that but I do know one thing…it will be a very very long time before I have kids.
