Just a quick one to broadcast the fantastic piece of parenting I just had the misfortune to witness.
A lady (and I use the term very loosely) came in with her roughly eight year old daughter. Clearly some disobedience had already occurred as the child was moaning that mum had a tight hold of her but mum was having none of it. After listening for a bit it was clear that the girl had tried to wander off or something equally serious so it was obvious to me that grabbing hold or her as tightly as the mum was doing was clearly a proportionate response to whatever misdemeanour had been committed.
As the youngster struggled more and more, mum gripped tighter and tighter. Eventually, this wasn't enough punishment for the girl or enough humiliation for the parent and the girl was roughly pushed onto her knees on the floor. Again, this wasn't enough for the mum so without any escalation of naughtiness from the girl (well, apart from a little yelp as she was thrust onto the floor) and so WALLOP!!! In an earth shatteringly unpredictable development, the girl started crying and the mum responded with the favourite cliche of children everywhere:
"I'll give you something to cry about if you don't shut up!"
Superb. Fortunately by this time I'd finished her transaction and she left.
It would be wrong of me, at this point, to mention that the transaction she was carrying out was getting out a large amount of benefit money. It would be even more wrong to hint that there may be a link between poor, lazy, stupid people who get money undeservedly chucked at them by our fantastic benefits agency and shit parenting.
Nope. No link at all.
And she was fucking fat too.
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