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A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved 3 year-old grandson.
It's obvious to her that he has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets in the sweet aisle, cookies in the cookie aisle; and for fruit, cereal and pop in the other aisles. Meanwhile, Granddad is working his way around, saying in a controlled voice, "Easy, William, we won't be long......easy, boy." > > Another outburst, and she hears the granddad calmly say, "It's okay, William...... just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of here. Hang in there, boy." >
At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items out of the cart, and Grandad says again in a controlled voice, "William, William, relax buddy......don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, William."
Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car. She said to the elderly gentleman, "It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don't know how you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying things would be okay. William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."
"Thanks," said the grandfather,
"But I'm William...... that little bastards name is Kevin."
Real life story - I worked with a guy that had a young son that was a real handful similar to this. He goes to the grocery store with him one time - same kind of fit over cereal. Kid is calm as they get to the cash register when he suddenly yells out " Dad, don't make me eat dog food again!"
My wife had a similar situation. She was in a busy reception room of the doctors office with our 2 year old daughter on her lap. After our daughter farted she turned toward my wife and exclaimed in a loud voice "Momma"! My wife said she was never more embarrassed. Dave