This is Unacceptable

Living in the burbs, you have to get used to alot of things centering around children. I refer to our planned community as "the land where everyone went to breed." Anyway, as a couple without children, the amount of tolerance that one must have to get through a given day due to other's children is immeasurable. We go to the movies at 10 pm and it is daycare. Not preteens running around without supervision as you might expect. No, it is couples with their infants and toddlers all over the theater. The whole reason we went to see 300 at the latest show was to avoid your children, but rest assured, we are surrounded by toddlers. I was so excited when we purchased our townhouse because there are miles and miles of bike trails all around the community, however, no one can actually ride a bike on the bike trail because it is usually polluted with strollers, wagons, kids learning to ride bikes, etc. These are just two minor examples of the type of thing we deal with on a daily basis around here.

So, today I stopped at a store to pick up a couple of groceries. This is a very busy shopping area with a very dangerous parking lot. We have the typical stay at home mom with her giant SUV that barely fits in the parking space. She has the back of her vehicle opened and her 4 children are running all around. She is paying no attention whatsoever to 3 of the kids. I would say that the oldest child might be 4 at the most. I sort of look at her wondering why you would have these children anywhere other than inside of the car strapped in with this much traffic around. Well, it is because she has one of the rugrats on a potty on the ground of the parking lot. Yes, a potty. Why on Earth would this woman have her kid on a potty on the ground of a parking lot while letting her other kids dodge traffic? She is saying to the kid "how is your poopy coming." Are you freaking kidding me? I don't have kids so I'm not going to pretend I know about potty training. But, I have alot of kids in my family and have been a contributing member of society for quite some time. Never have I seen something this ridiculous. How about wearing some pull ups on your kid until he is a little better trained? What is wrong with this person? Is this now where society is headed? Do we get to look forward to pottys on the ground outside of everyone's car so we can watch Johnny go poopy in the parking lot? Your child has now learned that pulling out a potty to poop in a parking lot is acceptable. Congratulations.

This is just another glowing example of the collection of idiots I encounter on a daily basis. You are not doing your child any favors by making him think that his needs are greater than anyone else's in society. Sometimes you have to wait to take a shit and the earlier you learn that, the better off you will be.