'Fine, you wanna play rough? Let's do this': Entitled parents try to micromanage the Little League snack stand worker before getting a taste of sweet, sugary revenge

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    "Their parents had to deal with their sugar-derived carnage at home"
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    Posted by u/Kumquat-May Insist that your kids have loads of sugary food and drink? How about You deal with them?! D
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    Many moons ago, I used to help run a sports scheme for my local municipal area in my country during the school holidays. Kids aged 5-12 could come along, their parents would pay a heavily subsidised small nominal fee, and get a cool 4 hour sports session of soccer, basketball, tennis, etc. It ran very successfully and was really popular.
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    Around half time, there would be a break to get a drink and a snack. There was a little 7-11 style store just round the corner from the field/grass where we ran the scheme, so kids could get refreshments if they had money. We tended to walk everyone down there as
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    there was a nice seating area outside the shop. Trouble was, the kids started buying the most sugary snacks, candy and drinks they could, and ended up hyper for the next hour, then have a sugar crash and be irritable little horrors for the final half hour. Magically, they'd all be fine about pick up time.
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    To get round this, I banned the kids from buying anything sugary, and only savory snacks or fruit with water could be purchased. This lasted two days before the entitled parents of these little darlings complained to my boss that I
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    wasn't letting their kids buy whatever the they wanted. I was told by my boss to just let them buy whatever they wanted again, because apparently "you're not their dentist, it doesn't matter what they buy!"... Fine, you wanna play rough, let's do this.
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    From then on, we didn't go to the shop at half time - we went 45 minutes before the end. They had just enough time to get super annoying and hyper before it was home time,
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    then their parents had to deal with their sugar-derived carnage at home. I kept it that way till the end of the summer and felt so much delight at having to deal these entitled with their own kids being awful, day after day.
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    The next summer, nobody complained when I went back to regulating their purchases at snack time. Win-win!
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    • Emotional-Big740 · 22 hr. ago Sweet revenge... 1.1k Reply Share Kumquat-May OP 21 hr. ago I didn't want to sugar coat the details, but I donut give up when people aren't sweet with me
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    yogorilla37 20 hr. ago As a scout leader it was common for us to stop off on the way back from a multi day hike or camp and let the kids buy big sugary slushies that they'd finish just as we got back to the Scout Hall for their parents to collect them.
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    Anonymous0212 · 18 hr. ago My husband used to insist on giving our granddaughters a huge bowl of ice cream half an hour before bedtime because "it's [the grandparents'] job to spoil them", so I pretty quickly told him he had to deal with getting them to bed by himself. Guess how long that lasted?
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    Old Administration 735 18 hr. ago Little League parents would bring Mountain Dew and candy bars for after game snacks. Problem was these games ended at 930pm.
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    AnastasiaDelicious 18 hr. ago When my kids played sports we parents would take turns bringing the snacks to the games. Hand a kid an orange and they looked at you like what the how do you open it?!?! is this and
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    ratherBwarm. 18 hr. ago Good revenge!! Kids + sugar = Not Fun!!! I was at a big party where my almost 5yr was running loops around the house with another kid, up one staircase and down another. As they'd pass the goodie
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    table both kids would grab a handful of M&M's. I moved the M&M bowl out of reach, and turned my back, only to see it within reach on the next pass.
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    Rinse and repeat. Finally noticed a coworker moving the bowl back, and asked him WTH??? He (single, no kids) said he thought it was funny. It ended with both kids having a total meltdown. My kid crashed and went to sleep on the way back.
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    1HourADay 21 hr. ago I read something before that said kids being hyper from sugar is entirely due to adults believing that the kids will be hyper, and thus act accordingly. It's a placebo where you're told you'll be hyper and then you feel it.
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    AlexDavid1605 · 14 hr. ago I would have introduced them to the chocolate-coffee mixed drinks we get here. Some of them have really high sugar in them. Let them have the sugar high alongside them being caffeinated...
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    sunifunih 19 hr. ago If one has kids, they know. It's a parental secret. When hiking with kids their energy is finished at a time. Understanding. Just giving them sugar and few minutes later, they running home. Sugar hyper is not a myth, its biological. Nice trick!
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    dannybau87 13 hr. ago If people never feel the pain of their mistakes they never change 2 Reply Share • Global_Juggernaut683 9 hr. ago Great story.

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