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It has happened to me twice. Once with my own nephew. My nephew is a punk and his mom lets him get away with anything and everything. There were a few family members over at my house including him and he decides it is okay to do skateboarding tricks in the kitchen. He is jumping up in air, putting the board down and slamming down onto the floor. The first time he does it I just look at him. He does it a few more times and nobody says anything. It is loud, obnoxious and fucking up my floor. I ask him to do that outside. He doesn't listen and does it again. I tell him to stop and go outside. He looks at me like I am out of my mind and says, "I do this all the time at home." I say, "Your mom might not care if you fuck up her house and annoy everyone in it, but I do care if you do it here. Either go out side or stop." When he looks like he is about to do it again I say, "If you do another trick on that board in the house I'm going to break that board in half." He huffs and puffs and goes outside and his mom immediately makes excuses for him.
The other time was at a Seattle Mariner baseball game. I am there with my girlfriend and a couple of friends. We are sitting in the four seats on the end of a row. In the row in front of us is a father and son. The boy is about 12-13 or there abouts. The boy is eating sunflower seeds and spitting like crazy onto the walkway stairs and cursing like a sailor. Clearly he thinks this is fine since they are at the ball park. I'm not kidding when I say that the walkway/stairs next to him is soaking wet with spit an seeds by the 2nd or 3rd inning. It is gross. Finally it just annoys me enough that I lean up and ask if he can spit into a cup and maybe curse a little less. His dad looks at me and says, "We are at a baseball game." I say, "That is true, but that doesn't mean the rest of us want to hear how many swear words your kid knows nor do we want to have to walk through a puddle of his spit when we want to leave our seats." He is about to say something when a few other people chime in and agree. The two end up just sitting and spitting seeds into a cup the rest of the game.
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