When kids get rude!
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64176)
United States
February 24, 2007 2:10am CST
I was reading a thread from another poster about her 4 yr old going up & asking a lady a question that would've been rude from an adult.
So, I'm asking if any of your kids have done this, or have had it done to you.
I have a wieght problem, and have lived with others who are even heavier. Once a child asked a former roomie why she was so fat. She asked back why he was so rude. The current roomie had that asked & she responded with why are you so short, if he didn't learn manners he wasn't going to get any taller. The time it happened to me, I was just so shocked that I stood there & the father informed him he was being rude, but not so rudely as my friends had been.
My take is that children ask questions because they don't know the "rules" and want to know stuff. Its when a, so called, ADULT does it that I get pissed off. A jerk at Walmart asked my roomie why she didn't shave her legs, she asked him if he'd like a knuckle sandwich. Another one she replied that if she had to shave her face she'd be damned if she'd shave her legs.... I told her just to ask him back - "why don't you shave yours." Truth be told, she can't see well enough to see her legs, much less get down there with a blade & cut stuff off!!! Then again, I don't have that excuse, but since the hair on my legs is white now, no one can see it.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
24 Feb 07
I know what you mean. Children can sometimes ask embarrassing questions but some of them know exactly what they are doing and asking. Adults get on my nerves with how rude they are. That is why I no longer work outside the home. Adults drive me nuts with their childish behavior. Alot of adults are childish and rude too. I feel sorry for the children they will raise also.
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@ElicBxn (64176)
• United States
24 Feb 07
I agree. I think a 4 yr old probably doesn't know as well as the 8 yr olds that state the rude obvious. Like the 4 yr old that wants to know where babies come from doesn't want to know the whole thing, just that the baby grows in mommy's tummy & comes from God - or who ever you assign the job.
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@beaniefanatic13 (5068)
• Grand Junction, Colorado
28 Feb 07
Yes on both accounts. When a 4 yr old asks a rude question, it's most likely out of curiosity and not rudeness. When older children ask then yes I find it to be rude, because in all likely hood he/she has at some point has had it pointed out that what they are asking is rude, either through a parent or another adult, school or even television. Society as a whole has become a society of rudeness, that it's a free for all to voice ones opinion.
Why do adults do this, in my opinion, because we let them. As you said when it happened to you, you were so shocked you didn't know how to respond. If we speak our mind more often and tell someone that they are being rude then maybe people will re-learn politeness, and not rudeness. As always this is just my 2 cents worth. :)
@ElicBxn (64176)
• United States
28 Feb 07
I agree that an 8 yr old should know better. Even more so that, so called, adult. So it was the 8 yr old, that shocked me, since I'd known his parents & was surprised by it. His father informed him that it was rude on the spot. Adults I don't have as much trouble being rude back to, tho I'm slow with the snappy comeback. Another thing that the roomie could do is tell them she doesn't see any hair - while she's riding around on the handicapped cart, that'll give them a scare - she should probably spend a bit of the store visit, so called crossing paths with the guy & nearly hitting him. She did actually hit one guy who all but jumped in front of her. He gave her a dirty look & she told him he needed her glasses if he couldn't see the cart.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
24 Feb 07
you know the trouble with rude adults is that what is rude in one culture is not in an other and that makes it even more difficult. If we could understand this then maybe we wouldn't be so offended about everything. Of course there are cases that are very rude in any culture, I admit.
@ElicBxn (64176)
• United States
24 Feb 07
well, we are talking about a white guy in walmart, not like a person of a different culture. its just that some guys think they are being "cute" or "clever" when they do stuff like that trying to impress someone - now if their friend would sock them like the guy who talked in the Star Wars movie did, we'd probably have less of it
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