My grandson is a very friendly, helpful, and outspoken child. These are a couple embarassing moments he created.
My daughter's embarassing moment.
1. When he was around 5 years old, my daughter and he were in a Walmart superstore shopping for the weekly supply of food. She had always taught him the correct anatomical term for body parts, including the genitalia. As she was teaching him, he eagerly absorbed the information, and was now equipped with the correct terms. Ex. Pee pee, NO member, YES.
He had a habit of yelling a person's first name if he couldn't get the attention he was looking for by calling that person by his/her title. He was in the frozen food aisle where the popsicles were located. Having eaten them before, and liking them, he decided he was going to ask his mom to buy him some. So, as my daughter was busy making her selections one aisle over, she heard, "Ma-ri-eee, will you buy me some testicles?"
My embarassing moment.
2. My daughter, (same person) son-in-law, and grandchildren were visiting Me, my other daughter and son-in-law (no kids yet) on a beautiful, warm summer day. We decided to go to an area amusement park.
During the mid afternoon, we decided to go to the children's area where the water slides are located.
The adults all decided to ride down the water slides, and I was asked to watch my grandson.
I was laying on a recliner soaking up the sun, when all of a sudden, I heard a girl scream. I glanced up, and there was my grandson, holding his member, urinating where all could see, nearly hitting the young lady with his stream as she was approached from the rear. My face turned a crimson red, and the girl's father laughed, saying, "I bet you live in the country." I replied, "He does, I don't!"
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Another grocery store story:
I was holding my youngest, then four years old, waiting in line to pay for a few groceries. He peeks around me to the lady ahead of us, who was paying for her groceries, then pipes up REALLY loud, with "EWWW! That wady is UG-WEE!!"
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Here's another rotten thing my darling daughter did when she was about 2 1/2: We were at a very large (and posh) Southern California shopping mall when she, being a Terrible Two, decided to pitch an unholy fit. Right smack in the middle of the holiday shopping crowd. You see, I'd committed the sin of telling her NO, you can't have any more candy now, and she proceeded to fling her little body face down on the cold concrete and scream bloody murder.
Now, I'd read all the books, and even as a young mom I knew that if I once treated her with kid gloves out in public, she'd take every possible advantage of it. So, after trying to reason with the child (which works approximately as well as trying to nail Jello to a tree), I finally let her have it. Of course, she had to overdramatize the moment by covering her backside with both hands and commencing to wail "No, Mommy, no, don't hurt me!", as if she was used to nightly beatings.
About this time I looked up and into the eyes of about two dozen witnesses.....all of whom were glaring at me as though I'd just sprouted three heads. Even a security guard had stopped by, and I had a sudden, unpleasant vision of me being hauled out of the building in handcuffs while the onlookers took turns buying Amanda ice cream cones, waiting for the nice people from the child-welfare officer to come take her to a foster home!
Not being particularly wise or analytical at that early point in my life, however, I finished the job I'd begun on her behind and hauled my still-struggling, red-faced child to her feet. Naturally, she immediately pulled the wilting trick that all little kids learn to perform shortly after they learn to walk, but still determined, I dragged her out of the mall with one arm firmly grasping her hand and the other full of packages.
She never did that again. And I never had to spank her in public again, thank goodness!
when my son was about five he held the dooropen for two women while we were leaving a popular resturant in our small town then he came skipping up to me and in a very loud voice said "I'm a good boy, huh mom cuz i held the door for those old ladies?" (they were prob. about 40) of course they heard him and they even were amused until i opened my big mouth and said"honey those ladies aren't old" and he replied "yes they a re look at the wrinkles on their faces" i wanted to die right there in the parking lot.:imbar
For all the times I did things like this to my mother, I got paid back tenfold.
I was about 7-8 months pregnant. I looked like a big fat cow. My mother and I were out shopping for the baby. Were standing in an "empty" aisle, when my mother lets out this enourmous, horrible, ear crushing, disgusting smelling fart I have ever smelled or heard. I immediatley started around the corner to get away from the culprit when I ran smack into some gentleman. I turned around to look for my mother and she was gone. So there I stood from where that wonderful sound and smell came from ... alone.
The man just looked at me with a smirk on his face, apologized for running into my prominent belly ... and hurried off laughing.
My daughter-- age 4 years-- had picked up the word "wussy" from her 18 year old brother.
Well, we were in a chritian- based thrift shop. There was a little boy, probably 4 or 5, that was crying because his mom would not buy a toy for him. At almost the top of her lungs she shouted "You're just a wussy. Wussy, wussy, wussy."
Then in the same breath, she told his mom, 'Just get the damn toy."
Needless to say, we promptly left, and I have never been back!!!
Maybe it is my mistake - insisting that the kids attend church with us even as babies/toddlers. My eldest son, now 28, embarrassed us on at least three occasions: He had problems with his adenoids and because of that he snored very loudly. So being bored in church during the evening service, he would sometimes fall asleep and start a round of ear-shattering snoring! If shaken or jabbed to wake him up, he would scream "Ouch!" , which made matters worse.
My kids were also keen to handle the collection dish that was send around in church and one evening my son dropped the dish with coins scattering all over the place. My face was so red!
And of course there was the time he farted loudly, the sound ringing through the quiet church. I was just aware of a few people around us giggling softly.
I will never forget the time I was Christmas shopping in a very crowded store one evening with my two oldest kids (who were 6 and 7 at the time). My stomach was upset and after holding it as long as I could, I let a fairly quiet fart. I would have gotten away with it, except my angels danced circles around me singing loudly. "Mama farted! Mama farted! hehehe"). I was mortified.:imbar
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I was leaving our local shopping mall with my grandson. As a car approached, he pulled out his member and b egan to pee. I just stood there until he was finished. Horrors!:imbar
And I never had to spank her in public again, thank goodness!
Out of the mouths of babes. That's why I liked the Quaker granola bars commercials.
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