October 7, 2006
Gray knit pants with bows at bottom, ruffled cream colored shirt, curly hair, Caucasian girl about five years old in the store with her nanny on Friday afternoon between 2-4. Little girl asked repeatedly to go to the bathroom and the nanny kept telling her to "Keep busy". Didn't understand what that meant since she was holding on to the nanny's hand. Unsure who the nanny was shopping for as there was no connected dialogue with the child. Although she held on to the girls hand (points) the entire time, she didn't talk to her at all except to alternately tell her to "Keep busy" and to "Keep her mouth quiet". Noticing the girl shifting her weight from one foot to the next, I said to the nanny (who was quite menacing with a linebacker build), "They may have a restroom she can use here in the store" to which the nanny said to me "Never your mind". Unsure of what she meant (??) I said, "I'm sure they would let her use it" and again she dismissed me with a "never your mind" this time punctuating her statement with a wave of her hand. Children do have to use the restroom at inopportune times, but to watch that girl continue shopping for another ten minutes (during which the nanny bought nothing) was quite simply painful. The nanny's name was Lavonne or Yvonne and she carried a bright blue leather bag with a gold chain link purse strap. Also, the little girl was wearing some sort of black loafer type shoe that had some decoration across the top, maybe like a black silk flower type thing, they weren't very common.
Who talks like that?
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