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What is happening at the nearby laundromat that requires this notice…
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Neglect.
P
Yup. People just letting their kids run rampant around all kinds of strangers. Anytime I’m at the Laundromat there are usually multiple kids running around while the parent/guardian has their face in their phone. A favorite seems to be playing hide and seek in the parking lot, I’m surprised I haven’t seen any of them get hit.
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Gen X kids didn’t need their folks to have phones to be ignored. // smartphones didn’t exist, HELL, cellular phones didn’t exist in general. // five time laundry-cart rally champion … you haven’t lived until you’ve jumped a laundry-cart down a small staircase
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Gen X kid. Can confirm.
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Simpler times when kids were just kicked out the house after breakfast and let back in for dinner. Sure a few of us didn’t make it, but the ones that did had some great stories!
C
and super Gen X genes!
M
Kinda weird how it went from “you’re watching too much TV. Go outside” to using the TV or tablet to babysit.
A
I think it was because of the kidnappings lol
U
Early Millennial here (mid 80’s baby), I definitely remember riding in the carts. I mean WTF else were we gonna do? No cell phones, we were too poor for a gameboy or anything like that. You just ran around and did whatever while your mom did laundry, crocheted, and solved crossword puzzles. The shit my parents did when I was a kid make me wonder how TF am I even still alive today, letting me run around a laundrymat was pretty tame in comparison.
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> smartphones didn’t exist, HELL, cellular phones didn’t exist in general. it was 50/50 whether you even had a phone in your house!
M
Yup! Got my first scar running head first into an open dryer door that I didn’t see till the last second because I was being chased by my brother! My mom picked me up and put me head first into the washer to rinse the blood then made a makeshift butterfly stitch from a bandaid and slapped in on!
V
When I worked at Walmart, people would straight up drop their kids off, leave, and expect us to watch them.
A
The walmart near me has daily code Adam’s because people drop their kid in the toy section and go shop.
V
Yeah, no I’m talking “mom pulls up outside the doors, drops her 10 and 13 year olds off, and goes and sees a movie with her friends”. We had one mom that was so bad about it I trespassed her.
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Jesus that’s crazy
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If the mom didn’t go inside, could the kids be trespassed if dropped off?
V
Yes. But it wasn’t the kids doing it, and enforcing a trespass on children that haven’t done anything except being dumped off by their mom is kind of shitty. I only ever trespassed a small handful of kids, I didn’t like doing it.
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What. Like really really? was the walmart like some kids swappie, you drop tem off and hope that they arent kidnapped or lost. and parents would set some counter that it is okay if my kids didn’t disappear after 2h, should i next try 3h. or something. That is wild. I haven’t been in states, but in my mind, states was like 90s “honey i left kids at home” movie depiction. but lot has changed.
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I would send their kid to service desk then move somewhere else so the parent couldn’t find me. They panic? Not my problem be more responsible Edit: its crazy how often i did that
V
I was AP. I didn’t fuck around with that kind of stuff. I usually just made them call their parents and then chew the parents ass and threaten them with a call to Child Services for abandonment if they ever did it again.
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Unfortunately i was just a cashier and couldnt pull stuff like that. We also dealt with agressive customers who would happily slap you, get banned come back and slap you again. AP would never remove banned customers out and people got physical a lot. So the best i could do was dissapear
V
I had a *really* good working relationship with the police in town, so they always came and arrested trespassers. I was fortunate.
M
What do you expect, ever since Reagan closed the malls, teenagers have been pushed out the streets or Walmarts.
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I imagined that was the bare minimum causality.
K
A couple of friends and I were eating at a Burger King once upon a time, and this lady asked if we wanted her kid. “I’m sorry, what?”, we asked incredulously. She said, in an exasperated tone, “seriously, could you guys just take him for a while? I need a break.” We random strangers replied, “…are you kidding me? No.” We continued eating our J Wops for a few minutes before she asked us one final time if the three men she had never met before would just take her kid. We insisted that we would not, and left. I often wonder how that kid is doing. I also wonder if that’s how Three Men and a Baby went, but never bothered to watch the show. Edit: Formatting. Also, three men and a baby was a movie, not a series. That’s how little I knew about it.
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That’s wild and sad af in the same breath, I hope that kid is OK
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Sounds like a single mother who’s so disillusioned with the hardships of raising a kid alone that they just couldn’t do it anymore. Sucks for both of em honestly.
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>Architect Peter Mitchell, cartoonist Michael Kellam, and actor Jack Holden are happy bachelors in their shared New York apartment, with frequent parties and flings. The film began with Michael create a series of murals within the vestibule to their apartment. One day, a baby named Mary arrives on their doorstep with a note revealing she is the result of Jack’s tryst with an actress named Sylvia during a Stratford Festival Shakespearean production a year prior. >The film was based on a 1913 novelette, The Three Godfathers, by Peter B. Kyne, which was later adapted to the 1985 French film Three Men and a Cradle.
K
Ok, so I have a fresh script to work with here.
K
🤣
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i’d be the one to say yes then call the cops the moment she walks away. you wanna leave your kid with a stranger, you can deal with the consequences
Y
A mother doing that is in a state of crisis. Raising a child in a two parent family is plenty difficult already. Raising a child as a single working mother must be brutally difficult.
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How would you feel about a single dad doing the exact thing in this scenario?
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Yes, there were only 2 1/2 men in the series…
E
They forgot swallowing Tide pods and taking drugs.
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The tide pods thing happens at home not at a laundry mat. Poor kids, parents who use laundry mats can’t afford tide pods. /s
T
Is a laundry mat something you stand on while you do laundry?
T
I’m hoping you’re being pedantic about the word actually being laundromat.
T
Pedantic? No. Sarcastic as fuck? Yes.
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It’s a place you go to wash your clothes. You pay money and wash clothes, there are a dozen or so washing machines and dryers there.
P
You’re so nice.
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Laundromat.
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In that specific order? I feel like you need to take drugs first, to muster up the courage to eat a tide pod… then again, it’s 20 fucking 25.
B
First two at least make sense as something to remind people of. The last is just crazy that it needs to be stated at all.
B
People might grasp their pearls but it’s a stark reality. Especially if there has been an incident at this place, they’re probably fed up and tell parents to LOOK AFTER their kids.
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Yea i did both of those first 2 as a kid in a laundromat with my mom lol
M
“Be touched by or left with strangers”?!? We need that on a fucking sign???
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Neglectful parenting is going on. 100% someone tried to sue the laundromat for all three things because they weren’t watching their kids
E
Recall that horrible classmate of yours; the one who was utterly useless and obnoxiously terrible to everyone. Guess what? They have children now.
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First time in a laundromat, eh? Seems normal. Shitty mothers take their kids to laundromats and ignore them while they tear the place up, and they’ll even leave them there while they go off to run other errands. So whatever stupidity prompted that third line, it’s unlikely to be all that surprising.
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