Posted on 09/02/2009 5:45:31 AM PDT by GoldStandard
A Gwinnett County man is in custody Wednesday accused of slapping a stranger’s crying toddler in a Stone Mountain Wal-Mart.
Witnesses say that Roger Stephens, 61, warned the mother of the child that he would “shut up the crying child if she couldn’t,” WSB-TV is reporting. Stephens is accused of slapping the 2-year-old multiple times in the face and then walking away.
A bystander held Stephens until store security came to assist, according to the story.
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No, I’m comparing dog ownership with being a parent.
“It’s not a lot different from having a dog. re the bahavior in public.”
Yes you did dog man.
Dear Friend been going through your posts and so far you sound fine.:)
Weight Watchers vegetable soup: onion, garlic, carrot, cabbage, green beans, and zucchini.
See, my husband never went grocery shopping with me. Sometimes I had my sons, depending on schedules, but I preferred not to shop with hubby! Plus, with the shifts and hours he worked, the last thing he wanted to do was go to the grocery store. So I can’t judge or assume there’s no daddy just because he’s not at the store. ‘Course, my kids were, for the most part, pretty well behaved.
I’m kinda laughing, never thought that the clerks that saw me week after week might have thought I was a single mom, with no daddy around!
I have never felt I had to slap a crying 2 year old in Walmart. However, I have been run my cart into the large posteriors of people who block the aisles 2 or 3 wide, to talk loudly for 5 minutes about whether they should buy dinosaur or star shaped chicken nuggets for that 2 year old!!
One thing I have done is started cussing like a sailor in the presense of two screaming kids with an oblivious parent. I was shopping, at a Walmart no less, when I ran into this situation. My girlfriend was with me and I just started throwing in cusswords into our conversation. My gf got the hint and started doing the same thing. My gf even went a step further and started talking about sex. The woman gave us a dirty look and then quickly walked away with her kids in tow. Problem solved and nobody had to get slapped.
I got slapped by my dentist when I was a little brat. I was too young to remember, but he still gets a kick out of telling this story. My father had brought me in for a checkup and they were doing a bitewing x-ray. Nothing painful involved with that. Apparently I was carrying on like a banshee. My dentist went back out to the waiting room and asked my dad if he could help calm me down. My dad told the dentist to give me a slap on the cheek. The doc came back and did exactly that. He tells me that he never had a problem with me from then on.
Then you can look shocked and say, “Oh, excuse me!”
What? That’s insane. Dinosaur shaped, of course!
Well it sounds good to me! :-)
I love “social hour” in the aisles too. And they look at you as if YOU are intruding.
It is good. We’re going on vacation Saturday - a week at the local recreational lake - so I’ll probably have to freeze most of the soup.
For what it’s worth it was pretty clear that you were joking.
OMG, I just reread my post, lol. It almost sounds like I mean’t ‘I have been known to run my cart...’. Should have said ‘I felt like it’!!! I haven’t committed assault on anyone with a cart...yet.
Oh, I see ... it wouldn’t be assault if it was an “accident,” though ;-).
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