Parents and Children

I was in Boots the other day, looking at make up, as you do. Behind me looking as some other make up was a woman, with her two children who looked about four and six. This woman was talking to her boyfriend/husband on the phone, asking him to find out what shade of powder she had in her make up bag. Evidently he wouldn't go and look, because she slamed her phone shut, and said, quite loudly 'F*cking B*stard' (except without the *'s) I was disgusted to hear her swear like that in front of her two small children, but it got worse. She then turned to the smaller of the two and said 'your Dad's a f*cking W*nker!'. I went cold. Nobody should ever speak to a child like that. What made the outburst even more chilling was the childrens reactions. They were not phased at all by the language coming from their mother, in fact they seemed oblivious to the fact that her language was extremely offensive. I guess she uses the 'f' word around them all the time. I just wonder, if their mother speaks to them like that now, what are they going to be talking like by the time they are fifteen?

Something that happened today also made me question the future of humanity. In work we had a couple of drunks in the store. One of them was spilling orange juice all over the floor, while another dropped his medicine bottle which smashed. Apparently this man had just come out of hospital where he's been in with pneumonia, he also said he needs to have his medicine every day or he'll be back in to hospital. fter dropping his medicine on the floor, several things happened...Firstly he asked me for a straw, then when I said I couldn't give him one, he got on his knees and started LICKING the medicine off the tiles. I kid you not. The supervisor told him he couldn't do that because of the danger of glass shards being licked up, and told him to go to the local hospitals drop in centre to see if they could help. As he was leaving, we noticed that he had a leg of lamb stuck down his pants that he'd nicked on his way round the store. We stopped him, took the lamb off him and then barred him from coming back. It just shows how disgustingly shameless some people are.

Things to be grateful for:
1. Sequoia Dendron (or Giant Redwood trees to the uninitiated )
2. Midge repellent (even though I haven't got any and am now bitten alive.
3. Chocolate eclairs.