Dej, rant away, it'll make you feel better...hopefully!

I personally think that you should let them learn from experience about the berry bushes in your yard...That's how I learned, and I lived. (we had bushes with red berries on them...I thought that since I could eat the grapes and cherries in our backyard, that I could eat the red berries in the front yard. Learned the hard way those red berries are not edible)

I hate those little kids in WalMart. (well, at any store) I'm trying to walk down an aisle, and all of a sudden I've got someone's brat pushing past me on the side that I use the cane. Or they'll push past me when I'm pushing a cart past something, and they always seem to want to push past on the side that's closest to a big display of something. (which means I get pushed over)

What I really hate is when I go to a really really nice restaurant...The kind where they have white cloth napkins and the waiter is telling you about the wine choices, and all of a sudden you have someone's dirty little 4yr old climbing up on the empty chair at your table, or worse...screaming in your ear because the restaurant doesnt serve cheese pizzas or have paper placements and crayons.

I'm going to a really nice restaurant tomorrow with my boyfriend for my birthday, and I'm really hoping there arent any little screamers sitting nearby. If they have the money to go to that restaurant, they have the money to pay a babysitter to watch their kids. It's not a kid-friendly restaurant. (I've seen kids there before, and they made conversation impossible with the decibel level of screaming noise)

It's people and kids like that, that have made me decide I never want to have my own kids. I used to want children, but the MS and just watching how kids dont listen (because you cant discipline them for fear it'll ruin their "self esteem") pretty much ruined me for kids.

Right now, I want to find the "big kids" down the street that are blowing up either really big fireworks or whole sticks of dynamite right now. I used to love fireworks (at least at night) but the loud noise that fireworks make...I totally understand why my dog hated loud noises now and why we had to drug him on traditional firework holidays. (4th of July, new years...football national championship days)