Ok seriously. (Germophobic rant)

[Shimmer]

People, when you go to the MAC store, keep your freaking kids out of the emmereffing makeup. I am so skeeved out every freaking time I go into the store and I see four or five little girls PLAYING IN THE

MAKEUP WITH THEIR FINGERS and rubbing it all over their faces and just all around playing.
Got shadow on your fingers? No problem. *lick* *wipe* *stick fingers in new shadow*
And to make it worse the little brats are crowding the shadows

. I don't mind getting out of legitimate customers' way while I'm browsing, but when little fucking kids are trampling me while their mama is over in the foundations it fucking pisses me OFF.

I've GOT four kids. I am taking pains to raise my kids so that by golly when I take them in public they behave like normal fucking human beings instead of hyped up monkeys on crack in unfamiliar territory.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO RAISING YOUR KIDS TO BEHAVE LIKE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN???
I don't want your kids' nasty funk on my person, I don't want to "Oh honey just try it out and see if you like it" at the MAs advice (while she's busy with someone else) after seeing your little snotnosed brat sticking her grubby assed dogpetters in the freaking pigments/shadows/blushes/lipglasses/ccbs/whateverthefuckthey'retouchingnow. THANKS anyway.
My daughter was with me tonight and she saw the little girls playing in the makeup and at NINE YEARS OF AGE she was positively SCANDALIZED that those girls' mothers were ALLOWING that behaviour.
My daughter, as I was waiting to tell the MA what I wanted, asked me if I really intended to try ANY of the makeup those girls were touching. No. Honey, I do not!!

Just. ARGH!!!

 

[Juneplum]

PREACH! amen sistah shimma! amen and hallelujah!

SO true tho.. that PISSES me off to no end, and then THEY look at YOU cross eyed when u ask them to control their kids

wtf man???

 

[Shimmer]

People not controlling their kids INFURIATES me.

 

[lara]

IAWTT X 100000000000.

I'm already skeeved at the foulness of cosmetics counters, and it's not helped when I see Snotty Child no.842038430982093 licking an eyeshadow or trying to put a lipgelee up his/her nose.

My mother was from the 'if your dare to act up in public I'll twist your ear off' school of parenting, so half the time when I'm in stores now I still automatically walk with my hands behind my back.

 

[Juneplum]

^

dude, my mother would just turn around and give me "THE LOOK". to THIS DAY (and i'm a grown married woman) when i'm acting up

she turns and gives me "THE LOOK", and i'm 5 years old again!

ha ha haha ha my husband keeps saying he needs to learn it from her!

 

[Lalli]

i took my lil 4 yr old brother with me the other when we were out shopping n even he had the decency to just sit there on the stool while i got what i wanted! bratz pi ss me off literally, i dont want no boogers on my face while tryin on a blush or sommet

 

[Shimmer]

YES!
I'm of the "I'll snap your fingers off if you reach out to touch a DAMNED thing I don't grant you permission to..." school of thought.
I won't try ANYTHING in the mac store because of how gross it is!

 

[Shimmer]

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Originally Posted by Juneplum ^ dude, my mother would just turn around and give me "THE LOOK". to THIS DAY (and i'm a grown married woman) when i'm acting up she turns and gives me "THE LOOK", and i'm 5 years old again! ha ha haha ha my husband keeps saying he needs to learn it from her!

My four year old has a clear understanding of that same "Look".


Hell. Even OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS understand my look. I have no problem having ANY of the tball team my son is on take heed upon my first warning.


Why is it so freaking hard to control kids???

 

[Lalli]

coz mayb the mothers become possessed wen they see mac make up they 4get their darlin children

 

[Shimmer]

Then don't get pissed at me when *I* remember them.

 

[libra14]

I am a server. Time and again I have to stand at the table while little jimmy cries how he wants hot dogs. We don't sell hot dogs. I don't want to listen to your kid wine about it for 10 minutes. I also don't want little jimmy running around the table, under servers' feet mind you, while we are walking by. Can I just say I know exactly what you are saying Shimmer! Why do kids seem to be in charge nowadays?

 

[Shimmer]

When I was manager of a fairly large and somewhat upscale bridal/formal store, and people would bring their kids (KIDS!!!) into the store, I would watch and see how they behaved, and more often than not it required some kind of intervention with me sitting the kids on a bench and telling them DO NOT MOVE.
When questioned, my response was always "Do YOU have on your person RIGHT NOW 3000 cash, NOT check, or available on your credit cards, to pay for the dress(es) your child is going to ruin should s/he be allowed to run amok in my store?.....No? Ok, well, for the duration of your stay within my store, your child will be required to sit on THAT bench and NOT move. Merchandise damaged by customer negligence is the responsibility of the customer, simply put."

RARELY did I get argument.

 

[moonrevel]

Preach on, my sisters. I remember when I was little I just knew better than to behave like a pain in the ass because I knew I would get it from my parents.

I was in Sephora the other day, and this little girl (maybe two or three years old?) was running around and touching everything (totally gross) in the already packed store, so I was trying to move around her, which was difficult, and gave her a sort of dirty look. She wouldn't move, so eventually her mother picked her up, and do you know what the little snot did as I walked by? She SLAPPED me. Just reached out and slapped me on the back of the head. I was furious.

 

[Lalli]

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Originally Posted by moonrevel Preach on, my sisters. I remember when I was little I just knew better than to behave like a pain in the ass because I knew I would get it from my parents. I was in Sephora the other day, and this little girl (maybe two or three years old?) was running around and touching everything (totally gross) in the already packed store, so I was trying to move around her, which was difficult, and gave her a sort of dirty look. She wouldn't move, so eventually her mother picked her up, and do you know what the little snot did as I walked by? She SLAPPED me. Just reached out and slapped me on the back of the head. I was furious.

she slapped you? omgwtfyou thats like so absurd wot did u do

 

[GlamDazzled]

lol. I think make up testers period are nasty. wether it be little kids picking around them or grown people. just gross.

 

[Shimmer]

makeup testers ARE gross.
but...little kids playing in them are grosser.

 

[Juneplum]

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Originally Posted by moonrevel She wouldn't move, so eventually her mother picked her up, and do you know what the little snot did as I walked by? She SLAPPED me. Just reached out and slapped me on the back of the head. I was furious.

what?????

she slapped you??? dude i SERIOUSLY hope the mother apologized. DUDE

kiod or no kid, i would have had some serious words with her mom.

 

[moonrevel]

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Originally Posted by Lalli she slapped you? omgwtfyou thats like so absurd wot did u do

She slapped me! Honestly, I was so stunned by it that all I could do was give her the familiar "look" one gives to horrible children. It was one of those moments where about five minutes later when I recovered my wits I realized that I really wanted to give the mother a piece of my mind, but they were long gone by then.

 

[moonrevel]

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Originally Posted by Juneplum what????? she slapped you??? dude i SERIOUSLY hope the mother apologized. DUDE kiod or no kid, i would have had some serious words with her mom.

Like I said above, I would have if I hadn't been so taken aback by it at first. I don't have children yet, but I can imagine that the worst thing about that encounter was that the kid had to learn it from somewhere, right, so one wonders if the mother would have even cared.

 

[IslandGirl77]

That is nasty! So far I've never seen that at the make-up counters I've been to. But, I know my kids don't ever touch anything...or dare ask for anything when we go into stores. They know better. I hate seeing bad kids running around in stores period.