Temper Tantrums

This is a commercial.  You will understand the advertising in the end.  IT CRACKED ME UP!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Have you ever run into THIS kid at the grocery store?  I think we all have at one time or another.  I'm curious as to how you deal with it.

 

Me - my immediate internal reaction is to yank a knot in their head, but then I stop and think reasonably. . . . .and I give them 'The Stare'.  Just call me "The Temper Tantrum Whisperer".  I'll stop a kid from throwing a fit without so much as a word.  It's the LOOK.  I think I learned it from my own mom because she has it too.  It only took me once as a kid testing that look to know that she meant BUSINESS.  Of course, this was before it was against the law to drag your kid out of the store by their ear and tear their little hiney up out in the parking lot.  Yeah - I was a quick learner.  But the charm that this look REALLY has is that when it comes from a complete stanger, the kid usually doesn't quite know what to make of it.   I don't think it scares the kids so much as it makes them stop their tantrum to ponder the look and what it may mean exactly.  And I don't have to utter a word.

 

Once their was a kid sitting in the cart (about four years old) facing me (since I was behind them in line) while the mom was unloading the food onto the conveyer belt, and this kid was SCREAMING for candy.  You know that candy that the marketers strategically place at eye level of every kid on the planet while the parents are trying to check out.    Yeah, well this kid wanted some candy BAD.  The mom, bless her heart, was moving as quickly as possible to get checked out and was calmly trying to reason with the kid that they had candy at home.  This kid wasn't buying that line AT ALL.  She wanted candy NOW!  She was having a full-blown hissy-fit and it was progressing into an all-out tantrum.  I couldn't take it any longer, so I whipped out 'The Stare'.  She stopped immediately and slowly leaned back sorta half reaching for her mother and staring at me the whole time with questioning eyes and then she said, "MOM! That lady is loooooking at meeeee!"  The mom turned to see what was going on and I just smiled at her ever so innocently.  The Temper Tantrum Whisperer.  That's me.

 

Comes in handy at Walmart.  Let me tell ya.