We all have at one time worked minimum wage jobs when we were teenagers. Minimum wage jobs are something you do when you’re in high school … maybe college, and in less common ways in graduate school. Then you move on and do something more productive. There is nothing I find more self satisfying than seeing the 32 year old pizza guy delivering pizza to my house. I just absolutely love it! In this country, everybody has at least the opportunity to go to a community college, and it isn’t that difficult to go to a state university, if you choose to do that. So anybody who is 32 and is asking me if I want paper or plastic … At one time we drank milk from our mommy’s baba, but eventually you put the baba down and drink from a cup. If somebody is 32 and still drinking out of a baba, then you got a problem. People get mad at me when I bag on those who work low run jobs. Have I worked at a Carvel Ice Cream store? Yes I have. Was I a telephone solicitor and did I sell bottom of the barrel stuff? Yes I have. Did I work as a cashier at a grocery store as I was a kid going to college? Yes I did. Did I deliver newspapers? Yes I did. Did I sell advertising in lousy community newspapers over the telephone and make minimum conditions. Yes, but I did these things while I was working my way towards something better. I am not coming over to wax your car today. I don’t do detailing. I’m not coming over to your place to deliver pizza. I’m not going to bring groceries to your car. Ok.

Here’s a rewarding career. Here’s someone who knocked up his girl friend, and you know who I’m talking about. The guy who stands at the exit at Costco with the yellow high lighting pen. And he looks … of course you got 6 worth of stuff in the cart … and he gives this cursory glace to your cart … you can’t see everything that’s in the cart. Then he takes that yellow marker and runs it through the receipt, so you can’t try going through the exist again. That’s very rewarding work. *sarcasim* I just want to know the name of your bastard child and where the mother lives. When I see that guy, I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking about that.

Ya know, when I’m in a fast food joint and I’m deciding whether I want pastrami on my burger or cheese steak. I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking, "what time does the baby sitter have to go home tonight?" I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking it.

When I go in for a .99 oil change, and there you are draining all the transmission fluid out of my car. I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking, "does this place actually have a retirement plan?"It’s just the way it is.

Ya know, we all start at ground zero. Most of us start with very little. Some of us with nothing. We all have the same public school systems. And we have community colleges. We have state universities. We have opportunities to do things with our lives. We also have the opportunities to use condoms, to not have sex with trailer trash that’s gonna get knocked up. We have opportunites. We have decisions to make during our lives. Yes I think it’s perfectly fantastic when you’re a senior in high school and working as a cashier at Costco. I think that’s great. When you’re 16, 17, or 18 … that’s great. But when I read these stories in the newspaper about people working at Albertsons the supermarket, talking about going on strike, and you got interviews with 38 year old people who are cashiers … I’m laughing my butt off at you. I’m laughing my butt off. I’m sorry, I know it’s politically incorrect to say this, because you’re suppose to say that everyone is equal, everything is beautiful in it’s own way, you’re suppose to say these things, right? And every job is good and great to have hard working Americans … that’s what you’re suppose to say. But the reality is that some of you guys just decided to ride bear back when you were 16 and now you’re stuck going on strike at Albertsons or where ever you’re going on strike. You kidding me?

We all have at one time worked minimum wage jobs when we were teenagers. Minimum wage jobs are something you do when you’re in high school … maybe college, and in less common ways in graduate school. Then you move on and do something more productive. There is nothing I find more self satisfying than seeing the 32 year old pizza guy delivering pizza to my house. I just absolutely love it! In this country, everybody has at least the opportunity to go to a community college, and it isn’t that difficult to go to a state university, if you choose to do that. So anybody who is 32 and is asking me if I want paper or plastic … At one time we drank milk from our mommy’s baba, but eventually you put the baba down and drink from a cup. If somebody is 32 and still drinking out of a baba, then you got a problem. People get mad at me when I bag on those who work low run jobs. Have I worked at a Carvel Ice Cream store? Yes I have. Was I a telephone solicitor and did I sell bottom of the barrel stuff? Yes I have. Did I work as a cashier at a grocery store as I was a kid going to college? Yes I did. Did I deliver newspapers? Yes I did. Did I sell advertising in lousy community newspapers over the telephone and make minimum conditions. Yes, but I did these things while I was working my way towards something better. I am not coming over to wax your car today. I don’t do detailing. I’m not coming over to your place to deliver pizza. I’m not going to bring groceries to your car. Ok.

Here’s a rewarding career. Here’s someone who knocked up his girl friend, and you know who I’m talking about. The guy who stands at the exit at Costco with the yellow high lighting pen. And he looks … of course you got 6 worth of stuff in the cart … and he gives this cursory glace to your cart … you can’t see everything that’s in the cart. Then he takes that yellow marker and runs it through the receipt, so you can’t try going through the exist again. That’s very rewarding work. *sarcasim* I just want to know the name of your bastard child and where the mother lives. When I see that guy, I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking about that.

Ya know, when I’m in a fast food joint and I’m deciding whether I want pastrami on my burger or cheese steak. I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking, "what time does the baby sitter have to go home tonight?" I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking it.

When I go in for a .99 oil change, and there you are draining all the transmission fluid out of my car. I’m sorry, but I can’t help thinking, "does this place actually have a retirement plan?"It’s just the way it is.

Ya know, we all start at ground zero. Most of us start with very little. Some of us with nothing. We all have the same public school systems. And we have community colleges. We have state universities. We have opportunities to do things with our lives. We also have the opportunities to use condoms, to not have sex with trailer trash that’s gonna get knocked up. We have opportunites. We have decisions to make during our lives. Yes I think it’s perfectly fantastic when you’re a senior in high school and working as a cashier at Costco. I think that’s great. When you’re 16, 17, or 18 … that’s great. But when I read these stories in the newspaper about people working at Albertsons the supermarket, talking about going on strike, and you got interviews with 38 year old people who are cashiers … I’m laughing my butt off at you. I’m laughing my butt off. I’m sorry, I know it’s politically incorrect to say this, because you’re suppose to say that everyone is equal, everything is beautiful in it’s own way, you’re suppose to say these things, right? And every job is good and great to have hard working Americans … that’s what you’re suppose to say. But the reality is that some of you guys just decided to ride bear back when you were 16 and now you’re stuck going on strike at Albertsons or where ever you’re going on strike. You kidding me?

… Pablita and her litter of 6 kids can walk into the grocery store every morning after their Dad has gone to work for /hr cash under the table..and buy carts full of groceries with their WIC/EBT.

I’m half hispanic and surely wouldn’t go out of my way to degrade my mother’s background. So why am I considered "racist" for pointing out the obvious. …because if I saw SusieJane doing the same thing..I’d call her on it too….
I guess I don’t feel too much compassion because I was parentless and homeless as a teenager and I found my way all on my own. Now, I know that it may be different for a younger child..but does anyone make the connection that some people continue to pop out children that they can’t afford because we have a legal system that encourages it?
To the person who said I should "mind my own business" and "stop being nosy". IT IS MY BUSINESS. Pablita is spending my HARD EARNED tax dollars and I’m wondering why I don’t get more of a say in where they go.
To be quite frank, I’m worried about the wellbeing of our American children…the ones who are being neglected left and right because we have others coming in here to openly abuse the system.
Until every American child is being assisted with their education, placed in proper foster homes, and/or completely healthy…WHY WOULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND GIVE FREE HANDOUTS TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT FROM OUR COUNTRY?

It’s like me having a broken down house….shouldn’t I fix it first before I attempt to help the rest of the neighborhood fix theirs?
FYI:::: I NEVER SAID THE WALL STREET ABUSERS WERE NOT A PROBLEM..but that is not the issue at hand right now.

Pls. HELP. We appreciate you taking time to read and answer! We have a beautifully bright 3 year old soon to be 4 in Oct. I recently scheduled an apt. w/ her pediatrician as a few odd things her father and I have noticed in her development. Also our other daughter’ speech therapist made a comment a month ago as to which daughter she needs to be seeing as it seems that our daughter in question has many oral motor issues. Another event that transpired this trip to the pediatricians is: we were at the store and as usual, she fussed about sitting on the bench seat-shopping cart. She did however and when I went to move the cart (not jerking just as I had the entire time) she fell off the bench not once but twice She fussed about getting back on and I asked her to sit back in the seat like her sister. She lost it and started to cry and say that “I just can’t sit like that!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t” I immediately had a light bulb moment…all this time I thought she was being courageous (another positive form of defiant) in other areas as well see list below. She went on to tell me “I know I will hold the safety bar the hole time.” You what she did. I do not like to let her walk because she holds on to the cart so tightly that I am fighting against her pull and yet I still have to push the other two kids and the load of groceries. As we all know it is only a matter of time before things get ugly so I must get in and get out.
We have been working with her to ride her trike a challenge and she tantrums every time we even bring the idea up. At the beginning of summer, we placed elastic bands on the pedals for her feet as she could not pedal the bike per advisement of my other daughter’s Occupational Therapist. This helped although she cannot get her feet inside the bands by herself and it is almost as if you are fighting her legs and her feet to get them in there. She wears a helmet, elbow and kneepads. Any sort of slightly uneven surface and she falls. Also, the other day I was walking behind her on flat and level surface (not uphill) and I blinked and the trike was flipped handlebars and seat on the ground. She was laying 5 or 6 feet away on her stomach and earth shattering screaming. I immediately went over; consoled her, got her calmed down, and treated her scraps. The next day the same exact thing happened. I am completely bewildered by this and wonder why she does not try to brace her fall? Just today she was out with a sitter, tripped over her own two feet, and completely scraped up the side of her stomach, arms, legs, and cheek. The babysitter said it was as if she tripped on air she still does not understand how this happened. The babysitter commented that she landed face down and thought that it was odd as she falls a lot.
Yes I know toddlers have grey areas of development and perhaps odd behaviors but my husband and I are concerned as we made this list together and are overwhelmed with the things that bother her. Pls. read the list and determine in your opinion is this normal toddler development? We DO NOT want to turn a molehill into a mountain but would rather be proactive than do nothing. Thanks!!!
Note: Her brother has hypotonia does that run in the family? The events or concerns listed have happened more than a few times so much so that we are concerned and we feel do not have to do w/ lack of sleep or discipline. We strongly believe in setting our kids up for success and will go the extra mile to do so and believe that we must be as positive as possible in our words and our actions. We do not discuss their weaknesses in front of them as they are all under 6 hence we are concerned about this peds. apt. and how she will feel while we discuss these issues in front of her. Any thoughts on that?
Gross Motor
-W sitting
-much encouragement to learn to and continue to ride trike
-flipping herself and trike several times
-any sort of slightly uneven concrete she falls off bike
-elastic bands to place feet in
-no one can get near her when riding bike except (mommy, daddy or nana)especially not other kids…I think for fear they may make her fall
-fighting legs when putting on shoes, socks or pants
-fighting her legs to put pants
-she cannot take off a shirt by herself
-struggles to get on underwear or pants and pull them up. Difficulty w/ thumb grasp to pull-up pants.
-falling off bench seat on shopping cart (does not like to ride on it) told me one day that she cannot sit well on the bench and has to always hold the safety bar in front).
-Peculiar way of holding hands/wrist when engaging in conversation or telling a story so much so that many people make a comment about her hands.
-peculiar way of holding hands down from wrist at times they seem to dangle
-peculiar way of holding right arm out for balance her arm makes the letter L shape while the left arm is held in real tight w/ hands bent down at wrist…we are noticing this more and more frequently
-cannot and will no
-cannot and will not learn to ride scooter
-does not enjoy to play soccer at the field will say mom “I’ll watch you play”
-pants are always falling down her bottom is always hanging out and she says she does not feel it and struggles to use her thumbs to pull up her pants. She always says she cannot. I always tell her there is no such thing as I cannot it’s I’ll try.
-buttoning or unzipping her pants she cannot do.
-I have never seen her pump her legs on the swing
-Would prefer to talk her way through anything as opposed to actually doing it.
-extreme force when picking up a glass with little in it almost as if her motor planning is off.
- seems to tire easily after riding her bike 6 houses or walking 6 houses she has to take a bike regardless of time of day.
-does not enjoy hugs, kisses or close contact and runs when family members near her to do so especially guests.
-prefers to kiss peoples arms if she must engage in affection
-difficulty sitting still when dressing wash
-runs into things a lot uncoordinated
-does not brace her falls or try to protect herself when she falls.
Expressive Speech/Oral Motor Development
-Large vocabulary
-50% or less others can understand her
-Since Sept. we have been working on drinking from a cup and every meal she spills from her mouth insists on wearing bib because she knows she will dribble.
-refers to herself in 3rd person and we constantly encourage her to use I
-when place room temperature cool whip on her upper lip she cannot lick it away or anywhere in close proximity to her tongue she cannot lick it away.
-it took since Sept to get her to form her lips to kiss
-blowing bubbles/kazoo/flute is difficult as she struggles w/ blowing
-will not eat cold things ice cream, popsicles, etc.
-recently started smacking her cheeks and saying just give me my favorite things I cannot say what I want.

Other
-Does not like wind in face in the car
-does not like water from spray bottle or bath or shower on her hea
-does not like water from spray bottle or bath or shower on her head or body/sprinkler too. We reward allot for good behavior if she does not tantrum which does not always happen.
-difficulty unwinding to get to sleep
-does not like loud noises
-tantrums when hair starts to touch her shoulders said she just does not like it. So we keep it short and cut it every three months and she sits perfectly to get it cut but nearly looses it when the spray bottle comes out.
-unexpected events or routine broken she encounters much difficulty…she has to talk out all situations prior to engaging the night before we found this the best solution to the problem however as life is not always planned it does not always work that way.
-tantrums during most transitions
-worries about which classroom she will be in for her tot class and discusses it the night before and practically the entire way to class
-worries about what craft we will complete or what color shirt her teacher will wear.
-litera
-literally goes into a knock down tantrum when she has to have her nails cut…we have never cut her. We reward if she does not tantrum, which has never happened. Our other children are not bothered by getting their nails clipped.
-Will only drink water or soy vanilla milk (one brand)
-is a thumb sucker so much so that last month she had an infection growing underneath her nail and she sucks it so hard that there is a permanent indentation in the nail.
-must have blanket at home and we only allow it in the car. It never leaves the car. To aide in comfort during outings as we noticed this slightly eases the times spent out of the house.
Forgot to add we let her walk now in stores regardless of the tight pull on the cart as this is what is best for her.

Every single time that I try to stand up for myself, my husband treats me like I am wrong. He also somehow twists the situation to make him look like the victim. This even happens in situations that don’t even involve him!
I’ll give you an example. Today we were out shopping with our little girl. The check-out lane we were standing in was pretty full, so the cashiers opened a new line. A lady standing behind us with a cart full of groceries runs for the new check-out. In the process, she rams me in the back with her cart and almost runs my daughter over who I have by the hand.
Instinctively, I pulled my daughter closer to me so she wouldn’t be hit. I just turned and looked at this lady with a complete look off utter disgust and I shook my head. I was kind of in shock that an adult would actually hit someone with a cart in an attempt to be first in line. I didn’t really know what to say to her.
The lady yelled out over her shoulder "Sorry!" and kept going. I turned to my husband and said "Did you see what that woman did? There is something seriously wrong with her!"
My husband said "Well, she did say that she was sorry. Anyway, what do you want me to do about it?"
He says this every time something like this happens. I don’t want to give the impression that things like this happen often, but we have been married for 10 years so it has happened before.
I feel like he always sides with complete strangers and he expects me to just take abuse no matter who it is coming from. He gets upset and treats me like a child if I somehow react to a rude situation.
Also, he makes it seem like I am blaming him if I dare "complain" to him about another person’s actions. Instead of saying something supportive to me like "Ya, she really had a screw loose!" or something to that effect, he asks "What do you want me to do about it?"
I don’t want him to do anything. I’m not asking him to run after the lady and beat the heck out of her. I’m simply looking for some supportive words from my own spouse!
Is this a guy thing? Why does he treat me like this?

I went to a grocery store and purchased 6.87 worth of items.

The cashier thought the credit card machine was not working, therefore, swiping my card 3 times.

I look at my bank statement online the following day, and it shows 4 total debits of 6.87. This means my grocery cart cost me 0.61, plus the 6.87 that is rightfully theirs.

I take my statement to the manager, and the manager refuses to credit my account until a huge fuss is made.

This is the cheapest place to purchase groceries, so I went the following week and well…. the manager came up to me in public and told me "Excuse me, management would prefer if you did not shop here anymore. Please exit now. Thank you."

Being ripped off and being humiliated in public, and being thrown out of a store when I did nothing wrong –

do I have any legal defense?

Does the store owner have the right to do this?