The worst crying kid encounter I had was a two year old in a locker room. Kid kept crying mommy mommy I want my mommy. Then an old guy with the kid leaned over and with a sad voice said “Jimmy your mom’s in jail and will be there for along time”.
“Then an old guy with the kid leaned over and with a sad voice said “Jimmy your mom’s in jail and will be there for along time”.
Oh dear!
I did something like that once. I was shopping in an odds-and-ends store that was going out of business. Everything drastically marked down. Store was packed with shoppers, and nobody could move through it very easily. Very close to my position was a camping display with a tent set up. Somebody had allowed their 4-5 year old to play in the display, and he was in the tent, yelling, “Mom, Mom, Mom” at the top of his lungs over and over, to the irritation of everyone around him. I waited until he took a breath to start back up again and in a low voice said, “she left you.” That shut him up. Then he stuck his head out and in this quiet, little voice said “Mom?” Got out and ran off. We all cracked up.