This Wasn't Me But I Wish It Had Been

[bhg481]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/burger-king-customer-buys-all-the-apple-pies-to-spite-crying-child-queueing-behind-him-9656539.html

[woofgang]

why?

[Sqad]

Well done...........the child has a lot to learn about "life" and this, as lesson 1 was certainly appropriate.

[bhg481]

I get fed up with brats screaming because their mum can't be bothered to get off the 'phone.

[cupid04]

Did the man eat them all??

[ummmm]

I read that earlier. It did make me smile but it is spiteful. They don't say the age of the child. Anything over school age, fair enough, but little ones have tantrums, they have tantrums because they find it hard to articulate how they feel and what they want.

[hc4361]

I read the article and it seems to me it was the mother he was getting at. He was fed up of the child shouting and swearing while the mother ignored him and when he said something to her, he got a mouthful off her.

[Mamyalynne]

Pretty petty and pointless, maybe he has nothing better to do - the child's mother should have calmly spoken with her child , rather than keeping the phone to her ear IMO.

[hc4361]

ummm, a child of any age screaming that he wants a *** pie deserves to get his mouth filled with soap, not pie.

[ummmm]

And how long do you really have to wait in queue at BK.

[ummmm]

Lol hc....true, my child wouldn't have got the pie. He would have been under my arm and out of BK before he could speak another word.

But....we only have his word for his spitefulness.

[2sp_]

We (and certainly he) didn't know why the mother was on the phone (could be a doctor or other important issue), we don't know the circumstances surrounding this tantrum or how this child normally behaves.

He objected to a child acting like a child, and to show his disgust, acted like a child himself.

[ladybirder]

If any child of mine had screamed I want an effing pie l would have have turned them right round and taken them straight-out of the shop. No manners, no pie.

[bibblebub]

with that type of upbringing, in the future that kid'll be able to get all the pies that he wants because that'll be where he's working

[ummmm]

I agree LB but do we know for certain that the child actually said that? He might have posted that so he didn't look so vindictive.

[jennyjoan]

Well I too would have felt like the guy but now I have an autistic niece and saw her behaviour in my house - I would have second thoughts - perhaps the child was mentally-challenged.

However, I do get fed up with all mothers stuck to their phones - does my lid in. Want to go for their throats instead.

[2sp_]

By the way, before I get berated for being a terrible parent myself, I wouldn't have tolerated being spoken to like that by one of mine. I would have left BK immediately and frog marched the little darling home to be punished.

When a child swears like that, it makes you wonder how they are spoken to themselves at home.

[Sqad]

2sp

\\\\\ we don't know the circumstances surrounding this tantrum or how this child normally behaves. \\\\

No, true, we don't..................but how about an educated guess?

[Bazile]

//In a post on reddit, the man said the woman then reacted furiously when he complained about her child's behaviour after he shouted: "I want some *** pie!"//

Sounds as if this child was dragged up , not brought up

[ummmm]

In my experience, Planks, the learn from their cousins.