you inspired the politeness thread! 
When I was a kid my buddyâs dad would whup my but and send me home. Adults would grab you by your shirt and drag you too your parents if you acted up. Parents teamed up.
I think hitting kids is wrong but there should be no problem walking up to a parent and saying âHey your son stole my towel.â and expect the other adult to do something about it. These days the parent would get mad at you for acussing there little poopy doopy fat ass of doing something wrong.
Iâm old.
Not my sweet âlittleâ angel. He wouldnât steal anything. That would be a typical response from one of these parents if you mentioned something like this.
I kick the back of seats of people that recline in front of me on a plane.
There was a standing rule when I was growing up. If I was not being sexually or physically abused the adult won everytime. Fun thing was I was never falsly acused. Kids need to fear adults more. This being friends with kids stuff has gotta stop.
Parent first, friends when the kids get older and have families of thier own.
Iâm afraid of you right now.
Iâm afraid of you right now.
You and the rest of the ForumâŚ
Huh?
just funnin with you.
Oh , I see. I am slow today friend but fear not Iâll be up and on it in no time.
Look now these days the kid will call 911 on you (the parent).
That is a sad testiment to the selfishness of our societyâŚincluding myself way too often I must admit⌠
(thought certainly not to that extent!) How do we fix what gets passed down from generation to generation and typically only gets exponentially worse?
ââŚlittle kids on planes who sit and kick the back of your seat. After the third time, I get up, turn around and threaten to rip their legs out of their sockets. Then Iâll whap the parents in the head with the little leg.â
I should have told my wife to try that. On a recent flight that was 4 hours long, a kid behind her was kicking the seat even before take-off. She turned around and told him once to please stop. No response. After the second time she addressed his mother and said, âExcuse me but your son keeps kicking the back of my chair.â The momâs reply was, âYes, I know. Itâs a long flight and he gets restless.â
Can you believe that?
When I was young my sister and I flew from California to Belgium and we never acted out that way and it was a heck of a lot longer than a 4-hour flight. Kids these daysâŚ
I was leaving SF a few years back and we are on the run way. Over the intercom from a flight attendant saying if the person still walking around the cabin please sit down or we have to turn back to the gate. Finally this sickly Indian women grabs the seat behind me. I said to myself Oh No this is going to be some trip. She proceeded to cough & gag the wholle entire red eye flight back to NYC. I felt like chocking her. Oh and some couple on the flight with a screaming 6 month old baby. Talking about a flight from hell.
who brings a towel to swim practice?
I think you should have marched the little shit straight to a phone and told him to either call his parents so you could talk to them or call the cops for him stealing. Beating his ass would work as well.
Calling the cops & the club pool manger is the best idea.
I had to do it once. Three guys were standing at the end of my lane and I couldnât even touch it. I tried to avoid them for a couple of laps but couldnât take it anymore so I flip turned into one chest. My lane was free and clear after that.
The three guys tried to pick a fight with me after I got out of the pool but they didnât succeed.