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re: What would you do? Kid at the zoo wanted me to pay for his snacks.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:25 am to MardiGrasMambo
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:25 am to MardiGrasMambo
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Just buy the kid the frozen banana. It's not a big deal, and probably would help make his day.
This. He's not your kid so you don't need to be teaching him a lesson. The kindness though, might be remembered more than any perceived lesson.
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Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:26 am to Tortious
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This. He's not your kid so you don't need to be teaching him a lesson. The kindness though, might be remembered more than any perceived lesson.
you guys are patsies for this little chiseler
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:27 am to Tbonepatron
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So some other random person decides to be kind and pay for snacks for the kid and you take it upon yourself to take his money from him to repay this kind stranger…
No, she did not do it out of kindness. She had a budget too. She asked me if he had money and I said yes he did, I told him he needed to decide if he wanted to spend it on snacks or at the gift shop.
She said "well he just came while I was buying my son something and said he needed me to buy this for him. I didn't know what to do so I did."
So I told her he had a 20 and i'd make change For them. Which is what I did. Because she had only brought so much cash. Like most other people there.
Then she gave him 3 back so he still had some cash for the gift shop. He would have had 10 bucks. Same as I told mine they could spend.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:28 am to Tyga Woods
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spoke in poems all day
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:28 am to fr33manator
you made your choice NOT to buy an expensive 3.00 banana. That's your business. The other mom made the decision that she WOULD. That's her business. You had no right to take his money and give to her just because you wanted to.
With good reason.
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Man I'm really feeling like an a-hole now.
With good reason.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:28 am to fr33manator
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To which he replies "I do but I want to save it for the gift shop."
Sounds like he needed a lesson in economics and his parents failed him.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:29 am to IAmNERD
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One thing that really irritates me in this situation though, is the parents that send their kid to the zoo with like 100 bucks and they're just rubbing it in all the other kids' faces that they got the giant stuffed elephant and 3 ice creams for themselves or something. I'm usually not one of those that cares what others do with their money but giving an 8year old $100 for a school trip to the zoo is a little over the top. Then the kid bragging about how much of their mommy and daddy's cash they brought had me absolutely simmering during that event.
Yeah, $20 is reasonable. $100 is either parents trying to "show off" about how flippant they are with money, or, they don't really give a shite about their kid and just throw money at him/her to not bother them. Either way, the parents are assholes in this situation.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:30 am to fr33manator
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satsumas, Apples, carrots, celery, sweet peppers and apple sauce
You call those snacks? Maybe in hell.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:30 am to fr33manator
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:31 am to fr33manator
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I had satsumas, Apples, carrots, celery, sweet peppers and apple sauce. He didn't want any of those. So he goes with another mom.
Here appears to be the problem. If the other mom had boudin, gumbo, red beans and rice I would have bolted too. However, with kids today they seem to just want hot dogs, mac n' cheese, and chicken nuggets.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:31 am to Tortious
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This. He's not your kid so you don't need to be teaching him a lesson. The kindness though, might be remembered more than any perceived lesson.
If he's not your kids, you dont want to buy him anything.
Let him learn his lessons.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:33 am to CaptainsWafer
Not paying for the kids stuff is fine but forcing him to pay that lady back is dumb. Who cares if she wants to buy him some stuff
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:33 am to OweO
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$13 on some shite for him to feed animals?
Seems expensive for poop?
My dogs try and eat the free poop lying around
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:33 am to BugAC
If that was any one of my 3 kids I would have zero problem with how you handled it.
I wouldn't have helped at the end of the day. It's a simple life lesson that doesn't really affect them or anyone else.
The kid had money, and he could have spent it anyway he saw fit. It's not a 6 year old.
I wouldn't have helped at the end of the day. It's a simple life lesson that doesn't really affect them or anyone else.
The kid had money, and he could have spent it anyway he saw fit. It's not a 6 year old.
This post was edited on 4/27/23 at 10:36 am
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:35 am to cable
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stopped reading right there
Especially as no pics of other mom were included!
I thought this place had rules about this!
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:37 am to fr33manator
quote:Your own kids didn't want that crap so you bought them frozen bananas.
I had satsumas, Apples, carrots, celery, sweet peppers and apple sauce. He didn't want any of those. So he goes with another mom.
And the kid is smart for not taking any unwrapped food from a stranger.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:37 am to fr33manator
I could honestly go either way on this. I understand why you did what you did, but I also think childhood is a special time. That kid will have plenty of time to worry about money and scrape for cash when he's an adult. When does that transition happen? It'd be nice if daddy could just snap his fingers at 18 or 21 and make it happen, but realistically it's gradual. Probably should be happening by age 11, in small ways.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:38 am to 777Tiger
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you guys are patsies for this little chiseler
Yep.
Kids grow up to be Beggers because adults allow it to happen.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:39 am to fr33manator
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And then she was checking out with her kid and he just set his stuff up there with hers and she didn't know how to react.
That’s pretty shitty behavior for an eleven year old kid. Sounds like he has a lot of experience getting what he wants regardless of the means or consequences.
Posted on 4/27/23 at 10:40 am to fr33manator
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Principle
The kid is 11. Your kids are going to be embarrassed by this memory when they are older.
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