It irks me when a group of children swarm an area and consistently keep bumping into me and hitting me and hitting my chair. Parents and guardians should instruct their children of the proper behavior when in a public venue. I'm not saying they have to act like their in the presence of royalty, but I'm saying to just please have some decorum. Parents, just please control your children.

It makes no sense for children to be allowed to run rampant. What spurred this topic? I went out to dinner this Sunday and I was just sitting there minding my own business, enjoying the company of my mother and grandmother, when I see a group of rambunctious children running towards my section of the restaurant. When they reached their table, I thought to myself, "Oh my God, are they seriously sitting behind me? I mean, like directly behind me!!" 

These children were unaware of their surroundings. How do I know? They kept bumping into people. They kept accidentally hitting people. They kept kicking and hitting my chair. They were completely oblivious to the type of environment they were in. The parents weren't even paying attention to what their children were doing and how their children were acting. I don't get it. It was four adults total with this party and yet, no one said anything to any of the children. I was like, "This is a restaurant, not a zoo."

Now, while I hate to compare any child to an animal, sometimes if the shoe fits (then where it). Animal is defined as: an inhuman person; brutish or beast like person. If a child is choosing to act like a brutish or beast like person, then there's obviously a whole in the parenting methods. I mean, no offense no anyone because no one likes their parenting skills tested or questioned, but at the same time people should think about things like that before they decide to go out in public and allow their children to put on a display of craziness. What a child does and how a child acts so heavily reflects upon the type and quality of parenting that they are receiving.Of course, some parents and guardians just really don't care and feel like that no one should say anything to them about their children no matter how much or in what way their rambunctious children affect others lives and surroundings. I can respect it, but I don't have to agree with it one way or the other, so to each their own.

I know children will be children, but children are called children for a reason, and they need guidance from their parents/guardians. Some children just don't know or realize what's going on or they get so excited and wrapped up in the moment that they, yeah, act a little crazy and uncontrolled. Nevertheless, that type of behavior is not always acceptable, especially in such a public venue, like a restaurant. A child is defined as a person between birth and full growth, therefore I would presume that a person between infantry and adulthood would be in mountainous need of strong guidance and positive avenues of development.

Once, again my intent is not to offend anyone, and if I did then I do apologize and ask for your forgiveness. You know yourself and you know the type of person and parent/guardian you are, and if this doesn't apply to you, then it just doesn't apply to you. You, my dear, can disregard this article. In other cases, please, improve your children. Today's incident just really irked me. I was heavily irritated and I just needed to purge. God Bless You.

It really irks me when I'm in line waiting for a cashier to finish ringing my items up so I can pay and leave and the next person that's waiting to go after me comes right up beside me, as if I called for their assistance or something.

I wish people would just realize that I am the one that's currently being waited on. Those are my items that are being rung up to be bagged and placed in my buggy. It's me that this cashier is carrying on casual conversation with. Are you that stupid or are you just that nosy?

Oh my goodness, that really just truly irks me. You need to respect my personal space. When I'm waiting in line at a store to be rung up, I do not boldly trample up further to stand beside this person. Why? I don't know this person. I don't care to know this person. It's none of my business how this person is paying or how much they're spending. I stay behind the barrier of my buggy. I know and have no problem with respecting other people's personal space. I wish others would return this favor to me, as well.

There's no need for this complete stranger to be hip to hip or elbow to elbow with me while I'm trying pay for my purchase. I get so offended when someone does that. I do not need this person to know my four-digit debit card number. What if, God forbid, I happened to drop it on my way out of the store and the person that was so close to me in line was the one to the find the card? They would have absolutely no problems in using my card because they would already know my number and why -- all because they invaded my personal space while I was in line paying for my purchase.

All I ask of people is that please respect my personal space. It's not that I'm anti-human relations are anything; it's just that I have right to my own space, especially while doing something as person as paying for my purchase, especially when I'm using a debit card. Please, just back up. I'm not exaggerating. This really happens to me all the time. People - complete strangers just come smack dab up to me and stand right beside me, as if they're the ones being waited on at the moment.

When this happens to me I don't even say anything to this person. I act just like they don't exist all in an effort to be polite because I am woman enough to realize that some people honestly just have a lot on their minds and don't really have conscience parameters of what they're doing at the time. I don't like confrontation and I don't have time for it.

On the other hand, some of them actually do realize what their doing and it's that they just do give a hoot about how their affecting or offending the complete stranger of whose space they are completely invading. While it really does irk me, I just refuse to start an argument with a complete stranger about something like this. Like I said, I just don't have the time or energy to bicker about something like this. It's a big deal to me when I'm in the moment but not big enough for me to really say something to this complete, oblivious, stranger. I mean, if their that oblivious, then they're just really not worth my time anyway.