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In reply to the discussion: A friend of mine saw someone using food stamps to pay for ice cream bars. [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)One little barefoot boy was chasing another boy who had his shoes around a garden center. The garden center attendant very politely told the boys that it was dangerous to be barefoot in the garden center. They could get hurt, so please put the shoes back on.
The little boys totally ignored her and ran toward me.
I said, "Did you not hear her? Give him back his shoes!"
At which point the boys stopped cold and the shoes went back on super fast.
The attendant started to apologise to me for asking them to put on their shoes. I stopped her and said, "They aren't my kids. I've never seen them before. But they weren't listening to you."
I'm not sorry for it either, and I'd do it again. People have been snake bitten in garden centers, and there can be nasty chemicals and other harmful things from which shoes can help protect. Their parents weren't even in the garden center. They came along a few minutes later.
My job is kids. I would never belittle them though.