Am I officially an old crank?

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

I was doing my shopping for the week at our local discount grocery store and there were two little brothers making a big ruckus. The older boy was actually riding a scooter through the aisles and the little one (maybe 4, tops) was chasing him and screaming. Mind you, this store is about twice the size of a 7/11 and you can't fit two carts down an aisle at the same time and everybody in the store could hear them. After about 15 minutes of the screaming and riding up and down the aisles I'd had enough and I went to find their mother.

She was an aisle over and talking on her cellphone. I waited until she got off the phone and then I asked her if she spoke English cause frankly folks, my Deutsch is not all that great but she said no. So I politely told her in my broken German that her children were being disturbing and running/riding up and down the aisles and that it was not safe for them or the other shoppers. She went and found them and told them to stop.

My husband has been teasing me ever since, calling me granny and saying "get off my lawn" and shit like that.

Is it true DU? Am I officially an old cranky woman????

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. For the children's own safety, they needed to be stopped.

Imagine if they'd crashed into a shelf that had the glass bottles on it, or an end-stand of heavy cans.

Though it's heartening to know that even German parents are more interested in themselves and their phone conversations than their children, just like Americans.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear theNotoriousP.I.G.!

You are about as far from an old crank as anyone I know!

What you did was very smart, and needed to be done...

Tell your husband to knock it off, OK?

Jeez.

:hug:

[busybl]

3. no you're not

when I was a kid the moms and grammas in the neighborhood had a hand in watching the kids behavior.
nobody thought it was weird or intrusive. If the mom isn't teaching the kids manners, someone must.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

4. Thanks for the feedback

people. I don't feel guilty anymore.

I'm not going to complain about the "kids today" but parents really seem to have dropped the ball in teaching their children good manners anymore. When I walked up to my husband after telling the mother about her kids and he started giving me shit I said "We live in a society!" aka George Costanza.

[CBHagman]

5. No.

What you did was perfectly rational. It would be disturbing if you thought that what the kids were doing was perfectly acceptable! The world is not the Moon Bounce.

[hippywife]

6. Not in the least.

I would have found that terribly annoying! I'm betting your husband wasn't there, was he?

Were you at an Aldi's?

:hi:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

7. He was there

but German's tend to have an attitude of "oh well, there is nothing I can do about it." and it embarrasses him when I go and actually do something about it. He calls it causing a scene. I call it taking care of business.

We were at NETTO which is probably owned by the Aldi brothers.

[hippywife]

8. He must be deaf or have nerves of steel.

I would have put my stuff back on the shelves as fast as I could and been outta there. Else I would have given my cart full of stuff to an employee and told them why I was leaving without buying anything. When I worked retail, we were expected to and did put that kind of stuff to an end.

[NJmaverick]

9. hell no, you are just a normal person

almost anyone would have been annoyed with those antics.