Grandfather's Patience...Humor

[DIGGER]

Here's a lesson in patience.

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, biscuits in the biscuit aisle; and for fruit, cereal and pop in the other aisles.

Meanwhile, Granddad is working his way around, saying in a controlled voice, "Easy, Allen, we won't be long, easy, boy."
Another outburst, and she hears the granddad calmly say, "It's okay, Allen, 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 Granddad says again in a controlled voice, "Allen, Allen, relax buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, Allen."

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. Allen is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."

"Thanks," said the grandfather, "but I'm Allen .......the little #&%@* name is Kevin."
 
 
 

[bigguy]

Seen that coming, and still laughed. 

[John Schmidt]

Yup, my hat's off to Allen, I know what he went through. I have 16 grandkids, plus one killed in a car accident along with her father. Of the 16, they're split evenly male and female. With one exception, the females never seem to cause much of a fuss, but the boys....different story. One I had with me in a K-Mart was about as bad as little Kevin in the story, so at one point I stopped and picked up a water pistol. Went to a water fountain and filled it with cold water, then every time he started with a tantrum he got a shot of ice water. Didn't take long to have an effect. The clerk looked at him when I checked out and asked what happened....his shirt was quite wet. He started in again so got another shot, I thought the clerk was going to lose it, she laughed until she was crying. When I told his mother about it, she used my idea to keep the cats off the top of various furniture. Every time one would climb up on the piano or atop the buffet, she would squirt them. Within a week, no more cats up top....they hated it so learned faster than my grandson. Kinda makes me wonder about him.