Have You Ever Yelled at Someone Else's Kid?

[honeychile]

I was at the eye doctor's where this beautiful child kept running up and down the long waiting room, yelling at the top of her lungs. She made one too many passes at me (she kept putting her sticky little palm on my knee to turn around and run the other way), so I put both of my hands on her shoulders and said, "Go sit down like a little lady." She was shocked, but darned if she didn't go sit down quietly. Her mama was mad, but it was very effective.

This isn't quite the same, but I was babysitting my cousin's 5-year-old, and we were in a video store. Of course, she had to go to the bathroom, which was at the back of the store. When she came out, she saw the racks of XXX videos, and said, "Let's get the ones with the pretty ladies!" Embarrassed, I replied, "Those are for people with nothing better to do with their lives, Sugar!" The employees there still tease me about it.