Poor Man About Town

It's not just modern parenting - it's silly parenting. The M & S people are fast becoming parents. Twelve year olds who have spawned the next generation. On the other side of the class spectrum is the chav - fag puffing, half a dozen babies and yelling. The M & S people don't smoke, oh no, they don't have half a dozen babies, they have two, usually. Their attitude to what they consider good parenting is laissez-faire - ie let their little brats run amok. I was having lunch in a shopping mall today - that was a big mistake but all my favourite eateries have been invaded by New Model Parents and their sprogs. The eating part of the mall was quite busy and there were parents with their children, but these parents and their children were normal people - they got on with what they wanted to do - eat. There was, however, a group of new model parents with half a dozen brats. The brats were running riot around the restaurant area, the first I knew of it was a kick in the back of my shins, this horrid little specimin was trying to get by without so much as an excuse me.

I had this flight of fancy:

These little shits, it seems, were given carte blanche to do what the fuck they liked, any injury incurred thereof would be blamed on the nearest adult at time of injury. So if wee brat slammed his head against a corner of a table, the nearest adult would be blamed.

Labels: behaviour, brats, M and S, middle class, Parenting

I was on another bus journey yesterday, I was travelling through a rather middle class area. Several women boarded the bus, two of whom had the pushchair equivalent of a four wheel drive vehicle, the contents of these vehicles were their highly articulate brats who sported middle class accents. These women blocked the central part of the bus with their massive contraptions and their contents. Being ecologically minded, I guess that these women left their four wheel drive, they did not appear to give a shit for the other passengers - just cluttering up the space to which they are entitled. They were babbling at each other and the contents of the four wheel drive pushchairs, one woman pointing to the contents that "we are on a bus, this bus has an upstairs just like at home", I obviously deduced that she was broadcasting the fact to the rest of us plebs on the bus that they don't live in a council flat, housing estate or in rented accommodation!

Labels: attitude, brats, buses, four wheel drive, middle class, selfishness