Do As I Say, Not As I Play
(A little girl approaches me by herself.)
Little Girl: “The game I was playing didn’t give me all of my tickets.”
Me: “Do you know what the game was called?”
Little Girl: “Uh… no.”
Me: “If you could just go find out the name of the game and come back and tell me, I can send someone over there to help you.”
(She walks back into the arcade. Thirty seconds later, a very angry-looking man walks up to my counter.)
Customer: “Why the h*** would you send her back there by herself? She’s only eight years old!”
Me: “Well, she came up here unsupervised.”
Customer: “I was playing a game! I couldn’t stop in the middle of my game!”
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