Wow. Must have been visiting from San Diego.

I've often wondered when it was that parents stopped teaching their children manners...

Those wheely shoes drive me batshit.

It always amazes me that their own parents notice nothing at all. Mine were angels (of course). Christian once apologised to a waiter because he didn't finish everything on his plate.

I have perfected the art of the evil eye during my years of teaching and parenting. I use it liberally when in restaurants.

It works just about every time. My daughter thinks it's hysterical. I think she's just glad someone else is on the receiving end of it.

My 19-year-old has determined (well, decided a few years ago actually) that she despises children. Mostly boys as they seem to be the ones she hears and sees on those damn wheely shoes and doing such horrendously loud and obnoxious things most often, decidedly American. When she spent time in Japan she didn't mind them at all. They still have some manners over there apparently.

I have decided not to correct her on all of this and point out the parental part in all of this. It keeps her wary about birth control. ;) (yes, tongue planted in cheek, etc.)