Furniture store employee discovers kid sleeping on showroom couch: 'We're not a daycare'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 23, 2025 11:00 AM EST

This kid should be having fun with his friends, but instead, he's catching Zs in a furniture store! 

Just because any adult can become a parent, doesn't mean they all should. Some people just aren't good with children, and that's okay. No one is insisting that you need to have 2.5 kids and a house. These days, you can just focus on your career or enjoy your life as a single individual with few responsibilities. If you someday decide that you and your partner are ready to become parents, you've got to have enough money to feed and clothe that child, and that is not cheap. 

Some parents work so much that they don't have time to spend with their child. Others aren't kind to their kid, so the child spends time away from home with friends or other family members. Then there are cases like, this: a store employee discovered a kid sleeping on the couches at a furniture store! This person woke the child up, only to discover where the kid's mom actually was. 

Next, read about the college student who invited her roommate on vacation with her, but failed to mention that her parents would be making both women cook for 9 people: '[The parents] did a double-take seeing me on the beach'.

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    So I'm recovering my store and trying to keep an eye on the furniture department at the same time when I see a young man who had come into the store hours ago de d asleep on one of my couches snoring his heart out. At first I thought he was just hanging out. But after I woke him i was asking if his family was with him when he replied his mother was a doordasher or something and she was in the next city over!
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    What the actual f !? The kid's under 18 and I'm facing the decision to kick him out of the store to wander who the h_| know where, watch him until we close, or call his mother and tell her to pick up her kid! We're not a daycare I don't care how old the kid is. What kind of parent feels that this is ok?
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    BrokenAngel84 Call the cops. If anything was to happen to that kid the mom would try to blame you. I've had 1 parent try to Ia kid off on me 1 time and I said no, I'm not a daycare, I don't know you, if you walk away I'm calling the cops and showing them the video of you leaving the kid.
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    Adorable_Bag_... Had this happen all the time at a store I worked in about 30 years ago. One family. Every Sat. Parents would bring in a 5 & 7 year old then go to another section of the store then leave and go to another store in the strip mall for about an hour. Or more. One Sat we were ready for them. Managers
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    were notified as soon as they came in. They worked near the entrance of the store. As the parents walked out the door the manager approached them, told them that if it happened again we'd call the police and report the children as abandoned. They got their kids and left. Never came back. No loss. They never bought anything.
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    StormofRavens I volunteer at a cat lounge (cat cafe without food or drinks) in a mall. We have strict rules that minors must have an accompanying adult enter and pay with them.
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    People get so upset that they can't leave their 5 year old unsupervised in a room of 20+ cats! Second most common reason people leave without entering p ed off. (First is by far that we CHARGE money, so we can keep the lights on and care for the cats)
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    qole720 I had a buddy who owned a comic book store. He had a big sign on the front door saying anyone under 16 had to be accompanied by an adult. I can remember him calling the parents to pick up their kids a few times and
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    calling the police once because a lady absolutely refused. Apparently her hair and nails were more important to her than her kid.
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    Content_Talk_6... I see unaccompanied minors in movie theaters all the time. Their parents just drop them off at the ticket kiosk. It has gotten so bad that one theater in our area won't sell kids tickets to any show past 9:00 at night without a parent present and purchasing a ticket to the same film.
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    Tamara6060 Lazy parents who have kids just to have them but have no thought in taking care of them
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    allinadayslurk_ The local trampoline park manager told me people buy summer passes and leave their kid all day. They aren't a camp, and they don't monitor your kid other than making sure nobody is breaking the rules. If your kid leaves nobody is watching them. They aren't making sure your kid is eating, taking breaks etc.
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    They don't know your kids name if they get hurt and don't know the emergency contact if they have to call an ambulance which happened several times. Parents flipped that they weren't called. They would close and have a kid or two still waiting on a parent after hours, end up calling the police and the parents would flip out.
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