Some parents amaze me

Weeping Willow · Dec 21, 2007

And then they encourage their kids to act up in school, or act like they are retarded, so they can get SSI for them.
:angryfire
People like this are why SSI has a bad reputation.

And you and I get to pay for it all! :angryfire

Weeping Willow · Dec 21, 2007

What gets my goat in places like Wal-Mart is when the kids are screaming like banshees or behaving in a way to make a savage blush and there are 4 adults with them!
Couldn't one of y'all just stay home with the kids every once in a while?? I had two rowdy little boys- who were not allowed to run wild in stores or restaurants. When they were tired, hungry, or not feeling well, they stayed at home with one parent while the other shopped!
I took snacks with us to restaurants to tide them over until the food arrived. We went to family-type places and when we were done, we got up and left!
Someone else mentioned selfishness on the part of the parents, and that's really true. I think when you bring someone else into the world, there's a period of time when you really need to put that someone else's welfare ahead of what you want. Novel concept, I guess.

Yeah, for about 25 years, LOL. :lol2:

santhony44, MSN, RN, NP · Dec 21, 2007

A hospital where I once worked had so many "handicapped" employees that they finally required everyone with a (site-specific) handicapped parking card to re-submit their paperwork to prove they still needed it. Turns out that a lot of folks had obtained a "temporary" one and kept it forever.

One of my co-workers had one of those. They had given it to her following some surgery several months before. She was just outraged that she was going to lose it even though the actual need had long passed. "Well, I have high blood pressure and I shouldn't have to walk so far to come in to work!" Sorry, if your BP is that high you probably don't need to be working. If it isn't, then the walk will not hurt you one little bit.

Not surprisingly, the hospital ended up needing far fewer handicapped parking spaces than they'd needed before! And it took care of problems like the unit clerk who parked in one at work, even though her handicapped sticker was for her mother, who was in a wheelchair. Mom didn't come with her to work!

mdrew508 · Dec 22, 2007

I once read about a woman who did respite care for a severely handicapped young woman, and when she parked in a handicapped spot, someone walked up to her and yelled at her, even after seeing her passenger, who weighed 40 pounds and was profoundly retarded! That person must have thought that the DRIVER had to be disabled, not a passenger!
That misconception kept my grandmother, who died in 1990 at age 91, from getting a handicapped placard for some years. She was in a serious car accident in her early 20s and never got behind the wheel again, and by the time she got the card, she wouldn't have been able to drive anyway. But someone at her retirement village told her otherwise, and her doctor was happy to fill out the paperwork and she carried the tag in her purse.

My best friend had an AKA. One day he was with his girlfriend at the time and they parked in a handicap spot. When he got out of the car (without his prosthesis on) standing on one leg. A cop came up to him and asked why they were parking there. He just said "Hello" and ran his hand back and forth where his leg should of been.

I know this is off subject but is seems like we have also extended it to stupid people in general.

banditrn · Dec 22, 2007

my understanding is the same that the driver needs to be the disabled party, otherwise why not drop off the disabled party at the door?

What about if the disabled person can't just be 'dropped at the door'?

rph3664 · Dec 22, 2007

I once had a mother bring her three kids to the ER to have their mosquito bites counted and measured. Mom and dad are divorced and dad took them camping...they got a few mosquito bites. They also got a few bruises and scratches, so we measured those too. Yes, dad should have made sure they were using mosquito repellent, but bringing them to the ER was pretty over the top.

She was probably trying to get something on him so he couldn't see the kids again.

At least she didn't bring them in and say he molested them! I've heard of that too - great way to lose custody, BTW.

GadgetRN71, ASN, RN · Dec 22, 2007

What about if the disabled person can't just be 'dropped at the door'?

True..When my grandmother was alive, she lived with us for the last few years. She never in her life had a license but my parents were able to get a handicapped placard because they were her sole means of transportation once she couldn't take the bus anymore. The state was well aware that she wasn't the one driving.

Logos · Dec 22, 2007

That is one stupid kid.

tmulder · Dec 24, 2007

my understanding is the same that the driver needs to be the disabled party, otherwise why not drop off the disabled party at the door?

Not where I live. My father in law is head injured and has left sided hemiparalysis. Im just about sure we're going to drop him off at the door. We have a handicapped pass on the car we use to drive him in, he would be a danger to society to drive himself.

Sometimes you can't take a whole crew along with you to take the disabled person into the doctor's. I often have to take him to appointments........along with my 3 small children. I suppose I should park at the back of the lot since I'm not disabled myself.......geez louise, give me a break.

Leaving a disabled person, ALONE, at the entrance of wherever you're going is just a disaster waiting to happen.

katie258 · Dec 24, 2007

You know I get sick of parents who bring their kids in at 0300 to the A&E because they have had a temp and vomiting for the last week or so. And you are bringing them in now because??? Oh he/she isn't any better. O.K. let me see if I have this right, a week sick in the middle of winter(-10) and you want me to get the doc up, out of bed at this hour because you are a drop kick. Right... And of course we have to because it's a child. And the parents are drop kicks and can not be trusted to look after their own child and don't know that they can phone during hours at the surgery and get an appointment with the same doc they will see here.

Or the child has a split lip because it has been left to run riot through your house untill this hour unsupervised and hurt herself. Do you not have ice in your house?

Or to date my fav. Dad has to bring mother, wife and assorted children into A&E because he got his fibre glass cast wet and you can't get casts wet. So drop kick why did you pay the exta fifty bucks to get it then??? Oh and that was at 0400.

Mind you the person having this little rant is the same one who told her son to suck it, up put some ice on it and take some panadol if your hand hurts because you hit your brother on the head. Same one who took that son to A&E a week later to have it x-rayed only to find out that it was in fact fractured in not one, but two places on the same bone. Ah well at least it wasn't at midnight!

squeakykitty · Dec 26, 2007

She was probably trying to get something on him so he couldn't see the kids again.
At least she didn't bring them in and say he molested them! I've heard of that too - great way to lose custody, BTW.

There was someone like that in my area, and she lost custody, and I'm glad she did. I mentioned her in this thread.

Some people are extremely selfish, and put their selfish desire for revenge above and beyond their own childrens needs and well-being. Their childrens feelings don't matter to them.:trout:

Peepsaretasty · Dec 27, 2007

I have seen some nearly intolerable things, why do they seem to always happen at Wal-Mart. One thing that happened a few weeks ago that I actually went to the mother and removed the kid and called the cops, which I normally wouldn't do but this is what happened....
I was in the Christmas aisle looking around with my hubby. I noticed a cart go by, I had to scoot my cart over, with a little, maybe 2 at the most, curly haired little girl. She was being allowed to stand in the front of the cart ( I won't even get into this). Mom turned to look at the aisle behind her and I was about 5-6 feet from the little girl when in slow motion the little tyke reaches for a stocking on the shelf and falls out (head first) onto the floor. I jumped and went to her and by the time I was there her mom in a LOUD voice started screaming, "Why the hell did you do that" while shaking the little girl who had just hit head first onto the concrete floor. I pulled out my cell and told my hubby to call the cops and I pulled the little girl from the mom (Probably not the wisest but I am a mom and the only thing I could think to do was hold the little girl and make sure she wasn't bleeding). The mother was screaming at me and the little girl for being a Dumb Sh** and falling out. I just sat their rocking the little girl til security came, paramedics and cops. I was so angry I was shaking all over and crying myself because I was so furious with this person (used very loosely). I don't know what ended up happening but I hope they arrested her orifice.

I saw the exact same thing at costco! Except the poor child was an infant who had barely learned how to stand up-reached for dad (whose back was turned) and fell out head first. I ran over and attempted to render aid but the mother was busy yelling at the father and vice versa-then they both turned on me. I didn't even think about calling the cops. I should have. But I kept thinking back to the paramedic days when they could refuse treatment for their child. :down:

wish I'd called the cops now.