By Anonymous - 18/02/2014 16:31 - United States

Today, while waiting in line at a store, a toddler behind me was throwing a major meltdown while his father yelled at him, giving me a migraine. I turned to the woman behind me and said, "Can you believe this kid? I feel sorry for his mother." Turns out the woman was his mother. FML
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flashback.miss 28

the mother was probably embarrassed and distressed. hopefully it's not a daily occurrence.

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islandsun 1

Maybe the parents are not raising the kid properly. Don't assume the kid is the problem and the parents are angels.

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alycion 38

@111 it was really an option with both parents there. One could have easily taken the kid out while the other finished up in line. Some of us are hyper sensitive to sounds and a toddler meltdown will leave us in physical pain. Kids are going to misbehave. But people would have more patience for it, if parents would do something about it, like leave the store until meltdown was over, when possible.

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romeonsingcross 15

That's why you don't whine in the direction of the screaming child dumbass.

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randome101 12

Toddler was behind you and women was behind you, must've been pretty annoyed to not think I that one quick enough

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glabberfasted 16

No, OP, you had a headache. If you had a migraine, you wouldn't have been able to talk, let alone stay in line in a place full of bright lights. This annoys me to no end. My entire family suffers from chronic migraines. I've only ever had one in my life, but when I had it, I would've killed myself if I had a gun. You did not have a migraine. People use this term WAY too much for simple headaches.

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ChibiChibi_fml 27

I've had migraines that were doctor confirmed to be migraines. They have made me feel sick as hell and absolutely miserable but I still managed to go out and do my shopping in places full of bright lights and loud noises. I put on some sunglasses, took some meds, and just dealt the brain crushing pounding that every sound created. Why? Because I had stuff that I had to get done and couldn't afford to put off. Just because you couldn't force yourself to keep functioning when you had a migraine doesn't mean someone else can't. Also migraines often start out just painful and grow to be cripplingly bad. It's possible that the OP just hadn't reached the hunched over the toilet vomiting their guts out from pain part of it yet.

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jadeystram 3

I know what you mean but don't agree not all people say that and not all people who have a migraines can't leave the house etc.. I have a best friend who was in a car crash a couple years ago and as a result gets migraines that can last a week! They're super painful but if she has to she can still leave the house after maybe 5+ painkillers. I've also had a teacher with chronic migraines and he would still turn up in excruciating pain and have us be really quiet. I have them on occasion luckily pain killers are pretty effective for me, but assuming this person (without knowing them) just had a run of the mill head ache is silly because plenty of people get a certain headache before it becomes a migraine assuming she posted this much later she may have developed the migraine after the child's screaming. You just wouldn't know though.

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Alchemist_21 26

This is for all the people going on about making autism an excuse for the parents. 1/88 children are diagnosed with autism, about 1% of kids, so it's unreasonalbe to assume the child is autistic. Secondly, if the child does happen to be autistic, the parents were still failing because they are supposed to move the child to a calmer location, i.e. outside the store, as many have already suggested, if they are exposed to a trigger and have a meltdown. No matter whether the child is autistic or not, simply yelling at them and doing nothing more accomplishes nothing, so shame on the parents.

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jroxs13 4

That's most likely a headache, not a migraine. There's a huge difference.

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cchuckcloninger 5

Exactly how did you expect the toddler behind you NOT to belong to the woman also behind you?

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