Would you kindly shut up?

One of my pet peeves is loud people in public places. Now, I'm loud. Katie is REALLY loud. John needs to be louder. But, I know when to keep the volume down and I'm trying to teach Katie the same. Yesterday, must of been Loud White Trash Day, because "these people" seemed to be out in droves.

I went shopping to find Katie new Sunday shoes and after finding a pitiful selection everywhere I went, I ended up at Shopko. Next to me in the kids aisle was a woman and her two kids, both under the age of 5. She sounded like she was talking in a freakin' megaphone! And to top it off, she was ragging on her kid. Here's a few highlights:

"Hayden, those are ballet slippers. They're for girls!"

"Get back over here, Hayden, or I'm going to smack your butt!"

"Hayden, if you don't put those down, you're gonna get it!"

Poor Hayden! I scold Katie in public all the time, but I do the angry mom hiss. You know, when your mouth barely moves and you threaten in low Voldemort-like voice. That way, your kid knows you mean business, but the rest of the world thinks you're a great mom. Anyway, I walked over to the ladies shoes just to get away from this lady, but I could still hear her! When she followed me over to my aisle, I couldn't take it and left empty handed. (Happy note, I did find some cute shoes for Katie today at Mervyn's!).

Later after school, I picked up Katie and we went on a Mommy/Katie date. This one consisted of parking at the Jamba Juice in Sugarhouse Commons, having our drinks outside and going to Old Navy, Famous Footwear, Barnes & Noble and the library. In that two hour block, there was another crazy loud lady at Jamba Juice screaming at her kid, "You come here! You come here! Get your butt back here!" There were two really loud ladies yakking about work in Old Navy. And don't get me started on the library! You do NOT answer your cell phone at the library, and you DEFINITELY DO NOT talk LOUD on your cell phone... ever!

Maybe I'm just easily aggravated, but this drives me crazy. I wish I had the nerve to ask them to keep it down, but at least venting on my blog helps!