On skate shoes and possible shenanigans
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tijay makes a lengthy post about a kid coming into the store wearing heelies. Kid, while skating, apparently trips over the steps on a nearby escalator and bangs his head.

Result? 911, kid half-dead, in coma (prolly and hopefully died on the way to the hospital, he bleed all over the escalator making 4 people clean up after him. Bitch. His mom is crying and yelling at everyone, escalator gets stopped. People complaint about elevators that are slow and that we need to fix our escalators.

Then we have team meeting, and at least three people confess that they told him and his mom to stop skating. Making our liability 0. At least now, we have banned these goddamn shoes.

That incident just made my day. I will remember it on the bright side for the rest of my life.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're off. 324 comments and counting.

Edit: The wank, it hits stupid_free--many thanks to

hangingfire for the link.

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hallidae
2007-05-15 12:57 am UTC (link)

To pull a personal anecdote because I'm genuinely curious as to whether this is an equally old issue or a new phenomenon, in 1953 did you have to worry about Mommy threatening to sue your store for hiring a "child molester" because you had to reach over the counter and grab the sash of her toddler's dress to keep the kid from taking a header over the cart handlebar into a rack of batteries while she wasn't paying attention?

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frequentmouse
2007-05-15 01:25 am UTC (link)

I've been known to walk up to parents letting their kids stand up on the seat of grocery carts and tell them "You know, I don't know about you, but the sound of a baby's head hitting concrete makes me hurl."

In the fifties, I dunno- I lived in the kind of small town where the kids slept in the car while Mommy shopped. The specific manifestations may change, but there are always parents who believe their kids shit doesn't stink, and that nothing will ever hurt them.

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	hallidae 2007-05-15 01:42 am UTC (link)
	The specific manifestations may change, but there are always parents who believe their kids shit doesn't stink, and that nothing will ever hurt them. Ah, I see what you mean now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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