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Originally Posted by maleficent
I'm a busy body, but while I am getting better at not sticking my nose in - getting yelled at to mind my own business breaks the habit sort of...
One of my favorite, let's berate Maleficent episodes was when I was in the grocery store and I watched a kid start to climb out of the shopping carriage, and I looked at the kid, who was no more than 3, and sternly (for a two year old) suggested that it sit back down because he didnt want to fall. The mother screeched at me to mind my own business. Two aisles later, the kid did a face plant into hard floor, oh boy not sure who screeched louder, the mother or the kid.
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I work at a grocery store and it scares me how little attention parents pay to their small kids in shopping carts. I've almost had a few 2-3 year olds fall out of carts if I hadn't said something or told them to sit back down. Many of them want to reach over at the machine that despenses the coin change and almost eat shit.
In terms of other advice, I really don't give it out unless I'm in a position where I feel like I can help the person better than they're already being helped.
Case in point - I was dropping off a job application at ritz camera when I saw some guy asking about a certain digital camera. The people behind the counter were utterly clueless (whith makes me wonder why they're allowed to work there in the first place), so I helped the guy out. I've been known to do this in best buy, circuit city, radio shack, fry's, and other electronics stores where they have bonehead employees trying to help people make an 'informed' purchase.