Some kids....and their parents

[Wingsfan]

Went to get my first oil change today at the dealer. Sat down in the waiting area, looked outside and noticed two little girls looking at my car. Figured it was cool until they started pressing there fingers and face on my windows. Then tried to open up the car and my gas tank door. I yelled at them and told them to get away from my car, they ran off to the front of the building no parents in sight. A few minutes later I see the little girl with I supose her mother peeking around the corner giving me dirty looks like i was doing something wrong. I just left it at that. I don't know if i'm geting old and grumpy but people have been getting on my nerves...I'm only 31...I just think some parents need to keep a better eye on there kids.

[clg_98ta]

Can't argue with that...

[prostock69]

I'd have done the same thing! I tell my OWN kids not to touch my car all the time. It really comes down to teaching your children at a young age to respect the property of other people. Mine do. Maybe those little girls have been taught the same thing but were overcome by the beauty of your car and couldn't help themselves

I'll add my own story from last school year. The bus stops right out front of our town home. I left the car parked outside and the kids on the back of the bus threw their gum at my car. It was all I could do not to get on that bus and have a few words with the little sh*ts about not respecting my property. But instead, I make sure my car is in the garage or I'm sitting outside to keep an eye on it when it's time for the buses to come.

[d69chris]

Parents want to be their kids friends instead of their parents & let them do whatever makes the kid happy.

They don't care who's stuff gets messed up in the process as long as the little darlings are occupied.

Way to make them be right!

[snowtrill]

They were alone in the drive up area? I would have flagged one of the managers.

That is a huge liability issue and they will keep the kids out of that area. Hopefully the manager would have a talk with their parents but that doesn't seem to help much.

[Milk 1027]

I know the feeling.
I live in an apartment complex. Every time I was my car I find handprints all over it the next day.
One time I found an entire armprint on the side of the car. It looked like they dragged themsleves, all over the side of the car, when it was dirty

I haven't been able to figure catch any of the little brats.......

[Shardik2SS]

My 12 year old son knows not to touch my car. He wouldn't dream of doing it to some other person's car either. I don't understand some parents and their kids these days.

[fielderLS3]

Originally Posted by Wingsfan

Went to get my first oil change today at the dealer. Sat down in the waiting area, looked outside and noticed two little girls looking at my car. Figured it was cool until they started pressing there fingers and face on my windows. Then tried to open up the car and my gas tank door. I yelled at them and told them to get away from my car, they ran off to the front of the building no parents in sight. A few minutes later I see the little girl with I supose her mother peeking around the corner giving me dirty looks like i was doing something wrong. I just left it at that. I don't know if i'm geting old and grumpy but people have been getting on my nerves...I'm only 31...I just think some parents need to keep a better eye on there kids.

I know the feeling. I'm only 24, but still feel like the grumpy old man yelling from the porch sometimes. So many people (kids and adults) have no respect for other people's property. At my house, we've starting having to lock our doors during the day while at home because one of the neighbor's kids (who is only about 5 and roams the neighborhood alone all day) walked right in while we were eating dinner one evening.

Sad state society is in. You can't even leave the top down on a convertible at a car show anymore (unless you want people to throw garbage in it).

[Shuffler]

Lots of folks having kids that shouldn't be these days.

[rmnc3r]

I once admonished a trio of Samoan Kids to behave and the Parents and extended family really took offense. I was skeered! Samoan's are generally BIG folks.

Two of the Kids were mercilessly teasing the third and really making a huge racket.
I went over to them and reminded them that they were not on a playground. They did quite down and one ran off to tell Mom and Dad; I was promptly surrounded and told that I had no right to discipline their kids. I was stunned
and speechless not to mentioned HUGELY outnumbered. I tried to explain but it fell on deaf ears.

Yep, some people and their kids...

[Shuffler]

People like that want you to feel sorry for them when their kids get hurt or killed.

Reminds me of an incident in the Houston are several years back....

This 13 year old kid was killed burglarizing a home. His mom was on the news crying and saying what a good kid he was and that someone must have made him do it. Turns out this 13 year old had a rap sheet a mile long.

[kjd15]

I would have said something to the kids, too. I probably wouldn't have yelled at them, but I would have asked them not to touch the car. If I was in the right mood, I might have looked for their parents to make them aware that the kids were playing in the parking lot unsupervised.

[2010 SSRS]

the worst is the people who bring young little kids to car shows and don't pay attention to their kids who are touching every car they look at.

[kjd15]

Originally Posted by 2010 SSRS

the worst is the people who bring young little kids to car shows and don't pay attention to their kids who are touching every car they look at.

I used to get so nervous going to car shows when my kids were little. I used to say "don't touch any cars" repeatedly. It sunk in, but I still find myself telling my 14 year old "don't touch other people's cars" and his answer is always "I know mom!!" lol

[skuttduck]

I probably would have said "could you please not touch my car"

Then give them a balloon, and when they are all happy pop it in their face (I just saw despicable me)

The worst my wife and I had it (was 10 years ago at disney before we were married)

Had some bawlass crying on the Mexican ride at Epcot. Before he got on he said "I don't like boats, I don't want to go on" and the mom brought him on anyway. Kim was looking at the kid then the mom said "Maam, could you please stop looking at him, I'm trying to calm him down"

I said nothing, waited until the end of the ride, as I stood up, I started making the crying noise just like the kid, and walked away.

So the kid crying is my wife's fault, when you forced him on the ride. Sheesh.

[PAUL SS]

You know whats wrong with the world today? Kids.

You know whats wrong with kids today? Their parents.

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by Wingsfan

Went to get my first oil change today at the dealer. Sat down in the waiting area, looked outside and noticed two little girls looking at my car. Figured it was cool until they started pressing there fingers and face on my windows. Then tried to open up the car and my gas tank door. I yelled at them and told them to get away from my car, they ran off to the front of the building no parents in sight. A few minutes later I see the little girl with I supose her mother peeking around the corner giving me dirty looks like i was doing something wrong. I just left it at that. I don't know if i'm geting old and grumpy but people have been getting on my nerves...I'm only 31...I just think some parents need to keep a better eye on there kids.

Millenials... <<<[sp???] Dr Spock created a monster... It drives me nuts watching some kids that their parents feel it's absolutely the wrong thing to apply some corporal punishment... Firmly applied to the buttocks, fix's a lot of problems... But then at a car show Saturday night, there was a late 20's something dude leaning all over my car... I got the detailer and a towel out of the trunk and stood there waiting for him to get the message... He never did... So, I started spraying the stuff... ooops, did I get some on you... uhhh, you got some on my car... Look, don't touch... I'm sure if his parents had been there they would have chewed me a&&... oh well...

[DevilKnightFalcon]

[SuperSnake]

I wasent like that when I was little... I was tought to look but not touch. I am sick of this new generation of kids are allowed to do everything.

[rudack]

Just Kids being Kids taking it to far. Of course the Mom looked at you cross, you yapped at Her youngens. I am sure the little ones ran up and told her about the grumpy old man yelling at them for looking at his car. Lucky she didn't drive Her mini van into your car.

[AZCamaroFan]

I probably wouldn't have yelled, but i would have told them not to touch.
Worst thing i saw in this regard was at a car show , indoor, at a mall a few years ago. Classic cars. I see this family leaning over a rope and touching.....a Sting Ray. Parents letting them do it.

[Berean]

Next time you go out, take a tranquilizer gun with you. A quick shot to the neck and they'll drop within three or four steps.

If there's a large pack of them, try to pick off the ones in the rear first, or they'll scatter and you probably won't get more than two of them.

[redrobin]

When I was kid I:
1. Knew better than to touch someone else's stuff.
2. Knew better than to misbehave with an adult around lest my mother find out
The village can't raise the kids nowadays because their parents (and the kids) will tell you to F*CK off!

[prostock69]

Originally Posted by fielderLS3

I know the feeling. I'm only 24, but still feel like the grumpy old man yelling from the porch sometimes. So many people (kids and adults) have no respect for other people's property. At my house, we've starting having to lock our doors during the day while at home because one of the neighbor's kids (who is only about 5 and roams the neighborhood alone all day) walked right in while we were eating dinner one evening.

Sad state society is in. You can't even leave the top down on a convertible at a car show anymore (unless you want people to throw garbage in it).

I had a neighbor whose 2 year old son roamed over to our front porch all the time. He would be trying to get on my daughter's tricycle. I was so afraid he would fall and hurt himself. Where was his mom? Probably high or drunk in her apartment, completely unaware of his whereabouts. She would constantly smoke pot and be lit most of the day. Sometimes the smell would overwhelm me in the mornings. I couldn't even go outside and read my paper and drink my coffee because of her. She got kicked out last year, thank god. I even started to take care of her poor kitten because she never fed it.

[PHEOX]

Originally Posted by PAUL SS

You know whats wrong with the world today? Kids.

You know whats wrong with kids today? Their parents.

+1,000,000! Luckily for me, I have a responsible father that has taught me respect. A whole lot of kids I know are dumb as rocks when it comes to respecting adults, respecting people's property, and having any common sense whatsoever.