Another RANT!

Ok this time it's not about cell phones, though it's neverending!
This time, however it is about mothers who while they know the kid belongs to them, seem to have forgotten about the MINDING bit.

I use transit to scoot around the city on a daily basis and as a result am subjected to a gong-show on every trip. It never fails, transit is full of clowns the circus left behind.

Someone please explain to me why a mother with a screaming child cannot think of anything else to shut them up but to smother the kid by covering his/her mouth? Is this supposed to stop them from wailing? I don't know about you but if someone was holding me back from oxygen I too would put up one helluva fight!
And next to have mom remove the hand from the kid's mouth ( BREAAAATHE " thanks Mom") only to smack them because he/she bit her! Umm, give your head a shake lady - seriously! Someone oughtta smack you at this point! She may as well have slapped a piece of duct tape across the kid's gob - plenty of nutjobs on the bus, they must be carrying some.

And how about the lady waiting in the bus shelter with me this afternoon on my way home - she's letting her little toddler run around near heavy, speeding traffic. When she finally grabs hold of the kid and calls him a 'little shit', she must have squeezed his arm too tightly because he starts to wail; I figure she must have been injured on the job before because instead of using the hand-across-the-mouth trick she pops a piece of what looked Jolly Rancher candy into his mouth to shut him up. Seems to have worked wonders. But that's getting your kid on the right track early by plugging him full of sugar just to get him to behave, I'm sure he'll be a sweet boy later on in life.
Not long after the kid finished his candy he's up and running again and nearly bails into a man picking up used cigarette butts off the grimy concrete. Now you tell me, how many reasons would the ground be wet in the corner on a hot, dry sunny day? Imagine you are in a downtown core, homeless and drug addicts rule the territory and there aren't too many toilet facilities for their use - why not take your leak in a bus shelter?
Well this kid has got NO BLOODY SHOES ON!!!
Once I got over the fear of this kid stepping on glass shards, I started to feel ill thinking how I refuse to even SIT on the bench for fear of what might be lurking on there and here this kid is practically making out with the dirty bench rolling around on it and then rolling on the concrete.
Clearly this lady is not thinking about the used needles and condoms and poop from all sorts that have once been there, and maybe this was her first time at that particular bus shelter - but it DOESN'T MATTER! Get a CLUE, it's common sense, put some flippin shoes on your child!
I was appalled and I SO wanted to say something, but Big Mama was BIG indeed and she would have killed me, plus it was evident she wasn't in a friendly mood. I decide to leave it and just be near in case Junior decides to take a flying suicidal leap into oncoming traffic.
Another mom shows up with a stroller. She's a young mom and the little girl tucked away in the stroller is freaking out, and yet Mom continues to ignore her child - smart, way to be attentive and act like you actually give a damn( kids remember this stuff, I swear); but then I have to give her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she isn't ignoring her child, maybe she really can't hear the baby screaming, but people across the street are starting to look over and out of nowhere she yanks out the earphones she had jammed in her ears and hollers " SHUT UP!!!"

Perfect, bring your iPod and baby's not there anymore. I'll have to remember that one for the future.

I don't get it - May God help us and save us from this future generation.