Parenting

I was coming back from McDonald’s the other day and I passed a mom and her two kids as I started to cross the street.  Then, all of a sudden, the mother starts yelling at her son for some reason.  I looked back and thought he was doing something like picking on his sister but nope.  He almost fell flat on his face because he didn’t notice the high curb and dropped a bag of chips, so his mom yelled at him saying “Can’t you walk?!”.

What is wrong with people!?

-Justin

24 Responses to “Parenting”

  1. Tiph says:

    And there's the other kid across the street who starts screaming randomly, and you turn to look at that one only to see the mother trying to drag the kid away from the toy store as the brat screams "BUT I WANT IT!! WHY NOT?! I HATE YOU!!"

    I've seen both. I think the same thing for both. What IS wrong with people?!

    In other news, I love you Drew. But most of all, I love Instant Gator. And every time I think of it I think InstaGator. :D

  2. Kyler says:

    Or the mom who was walking her 3yo across the middle of the street, seeing my car coming at her from a mile away. The normal response would be to hurry along and get out of the way. Her response is to stop in the middle of the lane and yell at me. People nowadays are making me want to become a hermit.

  3. Chris Yi says:

    I do kinda love Drew for noticing and commenting.

    Also, I've been a big fan of this comic ever since I found it. Keep it up!

    I have been retropunctuating for years. Only now, though, do I know what to call it.

  4. The Fool says:

    Now I have the urge to retropunctuate, and no situation presents itself wherein doing so would be appropriate. Alas!

    Also: what IS wrong with people? I agree with this sentiment.

    Perhaps that kid took longer to learn to walk than his siblings and so his mom suspected it was her fault, and in the spirals of depression caused by the fear of being a terrible parent, yelled at her kid for not walking 'properly,' which was the basis of her fears in the first place. Self-fulfilling prophecy.

    Or…or maybe she was just cranky and a jerkwad?

  5. charlie says:

    At the restaurant where I worked one summer, a woman excommunicated her son from the table. I came back with their pink lemonade and saw this boy (looked about 14) sulking across the aisle.

    ME: "Here's your drink…why are you sittin' over here, man?"

    HIM: "My mom kicked me out of the table."

    ME: "How come?"

    MOM: [rawr] "I told him not to burp and he insisted on burping anyways!"

    The hell lady, people digest food and the gas has to come out somewhere.

  6. Tall Guy says:

    Some people are just plain crazy these days. And no offense to the ladies, but it's usually them. You never see the husband start going crazy when you ask him next time not to enter the "ten items or less" line when he has 15 items.

    • TGBM says:

      Its usually the men who start doing the "WE'VE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR 10 MINUTES! WHERE IS OUR FOOD! WHY ARE THEY BEING SERVED BEFORE US?!? AM I BEING IGNORED" routine in restaurants.

      They don't get pissed at their kids, they just embarrass the heck out of 'em.

  7. Greg says:

    Wait, what kind of chips are we talking about here?

    Without this fact my sympathy is still up for grabs.

    Proud advertiser/fan,

    Greg

  8. Will S. says:

    Atleast the child was not on one of those leashes; you know, the full body leash, being tugged around like a dog…

  9. 19RAD says:

    I agree. What IS wrong with people these days? And while I can't think of my own example to share with everyone where a parent yelled something stupid and out of anger at their child, I do come across those kids of situations nearly every time I leave the house. I hope I don't turn out like those parents when I finally become one.

  10. Polis says:

    What IS wrong with people?

    I went to Six Flags for my birthday im sitting in the ride and a mom is freaking out because she thinks her son who is probably 11 or 12 is incapable of fastening a stupid seatbelt. Her husband checks and her son checks and the kid SHOWS that its fastened but she STILL keeps ranting on about it!

    It was so annoying she was lucky the ride started or else i wouldve yelled at her.

  11. Carth Onasi says:

    The other day, I saw parents yelling at their kid just for loitering.

  12. Bastila Shan says:

    No you didn't Carth! We were alone on the jungle moon of Yavin IV yesterday!

  13. Dave says:

    My fave was when I was in a WallyWorld parking lot in Missouri and a dad was walking holding his VERY young daughter in his arms while the son, about 7, walked alongside. THe kid started screaming at his dad for no reason, and dad used little sis' leg that was in his hand to kick junior in the back of the head. He shut up instantly. I looked at my wife and said "I wanna be that guy when I grow up."

  14. Mikey-O says:

    I think all moms hate their kids for what they did to their vajayjays. But honestly, that should be counterbalanced for what kids do for their breasteses.

    I think when I have a child that turns 7, I'm going to get him a tether ball with a picture of Mommy's face on it. Heh, tetherball is awesome.

  15. KayleighKins says:

    Man those chips were expensive.

  16. Arianna says:

    I love all the comments. Dave, yours was by far my favorite. That is so funny and I would love to do that one day too.

    People have some serious issues, but I think its okay to get a laugh out of it every once in awhile.

  17. Kev says:

    Agreed. Can't think of any good examples right now, though.

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  20. jen says:

    Finding the answer to the question "what's wrong with people?" will result in you curling into the fetal position and crying until you shrivel into goop, so it's best not to ask.

  21. Brendan says:

    Dude, I know! I was buying groceries like.. 6 months ago maybe, and a little boy probably about four years old was with his mother in the cereal/candy isle with me (yes, somewhat ironic isle combination).

    Anyway, the boy picked up a packet of Fisherman's Friend mints and was all "Hey Mum, what're these?". Waited a bit, no response. "Hey, mum! What're these?". No response. Got halfway through asking her again and she says, with no embellishment:

    NO YOU CAN'T HAVE THOSE PUT THEM DOWN RIGHT NOW COME WITH ME GET AWAY FROM THERE!!!!!!1!1!1

    … and drags him away violently. I was totally shocked, Then I realised that people are retarded. It didn't make me feel better.