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Another NDR: poll-ish. WWYD?
Scenario: You are in a fast food restaurant. Said restaurant is **really** busy. As in, probably 10-20 people standing around by the counter waiting for to-go or for a table to open up. There is a large group in the corner - 4 adults and at least 8-10 kids.
One kid, around 10-12 years old, gets up from group and goes over to soda machine. View is blocked between his family/group and him. He fills his soda cup with ice, dumps it, fills it again, dumps it, etc for at least 10 cycles. After the 5th cycle, he starts looking around between cycles (to make sure his family isn't looking, maybe?) Additional information: ice machine is one that employees have to fill with the buckets from the back and the drain tray is completely full of ice BEFORE he starts doing this)
You are sitting and eating your lunch and watching this whole thing. What do you do, if anything?
Re: Another NDR: poll-ish. WWYD?
I'd probably go over there if he had done it 10 times. A few times, whatever he's a kid making innocent trouble. I'd just say "Hey, quit wasting the ice. Where are your parents?"sort of thing.
Word! Change that to teacher voice though. My mom voice is pretty tame yet but I have one great teacher voice if need be.
I let a lot go, but stupid kids drive me insane (usually because they end up in my office about a year later)!
LOL. This is almost exactly what I did, except substitute mom-voice and teacher-voice with lifeguard-voice. There was a loud "HEY!" and when he looked over I said something along the lines of "Knock it off, you're being wasteful." He looked down at his shoes, quickly filled his cup with pop, and walked over to his parents. Who were STILL completely ignoring him. Glaring at them was not effective, sadly.
Good for you! I am definitely learning that it's okay to call-out kids who are not mine. This will sound lame, but I take DS to this playground near us that is quite popular. It has this long tunnel slide and there is usually a line of kids at the top waiting to go down. The last time we were there, there was this group of kids who would go down the thing and then turn around and try to walk up it. Meanwhile, we can hear them, so we have to wait. I told them to knock it off b/c there are kids up here waiting to go down. They looked at me a little shocked, but I never saw them doing it again. The old me would have never said anything b/c I wasn't their parent.
Go Phils!!