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new world parenting

understanding better how recent waves of narcissistic hooligans infest the earth. i'm at a starbucks, sitting near a table composed of a mother, her friend, two toddlers, and the older asian nanny.

the toddlers were granted long term access to two commuter mugs they swiped from a shelf across the store. while they mouthed them and fingered them with their snot hands, nobody said a thing. in between disgusting attentions to those tainted mugs, they jogged back to the shelf, scooping up armfulls of other commuter mugs and walking around the store with them doing the mouth/finger two-step. as if swatting a fly, the nanny would wait for them to attack, then arrive twenty seconds later and nudge them pathetically into giving up their booty. minute or two later it began again; they were fucking up anything — bags of coffee beans, signs, whatever. the nanny did nothing but react to these (un)trained pigs.
If you've got a pig that likes jumping fences, you have to make its fence a lot higher all at once. If you do it by increments, all you're doing is training a jumping pig.
 ~Henry Spencer (unconfirmed)
through it all, the "mother" completely ignored their abuse of the property of starbucks and the eventual buyers. not a blink. that alone wouldn't be a disaster if the nanny'd been instructed and handed authority to inculcate into the lives of the toddlers respect for others. nah, she was a professional fly swatter / jumping pig trainer, and the "mother" couldn't give a fuck less — oblivious, focused only on her friend while the nanny helped her kids suck.

years later we meet and interact with the products of these wasted pieces of shit, and their further corrupted offspring. one remedy.

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