AARRGGHHH! why do people bring their 10yo boys to the adult store?

[mongo]

Part of the deal operating in the town I am is that I have to let kids accompanied by their parents into the front room of my store.

But why in hell would you bring your 10yo boy with you to the store? First -- although there is nothing explicit in my front room there is plenty that is not appropriate for kids, but of course he has to feel up all the lubes, etc.

Then, the parents were in the back room for 20 mins while he browsed the front room by himself -- at least when we wasn't poking his nose through the damn curtain to tell his dad to hurry up.

Then at the counter, the parents had bought a dong and a vibe, he made a comment like "oh you already have a blue one" do they share their sex toys with the kid? (or worse?)

Skeeved the hell out of me. It's been a bad customer day. A while ago it was the guy who thinks I should sell magazines for less than cover price.

Most of my customers are much better people. It's just been one of those days.

Damn good thing I'm off the floor for the day soon.

[LeftyMom]

1. What the hell?

That's fucking wierd that you have to let kids in. Why the heck is that?

[mongo]

3. I'm not an adult store

I'm a lingerie and erotic boutique. Esentially a lingerie store with a back room.

If I was an adult store, I'd have to be 1000 ft away from the LOT line of any school, church, playground, RESIDENCE, etc. In essence anywhere a minor has been in the last 50 years. Basically there is no retail space in town that fits those criteria.

But Zanesville defines adult as "an establishment (besides bars) where a minor is always prohibited by virtue of their age".

[LeftyMom]

7. Ahh.

Ohio's fucking wierd, you know that?

[mongo]

11. It's Zanesville

Lots of places say you're adult if say more than 30% of your stock is explicit, etc.

[LeftyMom]

13. The part that seems strange to me is having to be 1000 ft from a residence

I guess that would work in a big city with industrial parks and whatnot where one could rent space, but I still don't see the point. There's an adult shop right around the corner from me and it's not a nusiance or problem at all. :shrug:

[tjdee]

2. I wouldn't want my kid going in there with me!

The idea of it gives me the heebie jeebies. Even if the kid *is* in the front room, I assume as you said, the kid gets the idea of what kind of place they're in. If I was feeling psychotic that day I might--but I'd get what I want and get out of there. I wouldn't spend 20 minutes browsing and taking my sweet time.

Those parents must be very open with their kid....wow!

on edit:

D'oh!! I didn't realize that it was not an adult store. :dunce:

[mongo]

5. A little too open with the kid in my book

I'm very liberal about sex in general, and my daughter grew up going to clothing optional pagan festivals.

But we never shared the contents of our sex toy cabinet (yes we have a whole cabinet of toys) with her.

[Redstone]

23. Yeah, you gotta have some standards when it comes to the kids.

I'd have thrown those parents out of the store. But I'm not saying you should have; it's your store and not mine.

Redstone

[WCGreen]

4. We went to Zanesville last year....

Nice little town....

Still somewhat quaint and yet....

All the chains are there...

Next time I'll have to head on over to your store...

We won't bring any kiddies with us....

The bridge is cool.....

[In_The_Wind]

6. Shopping time ...

[WCGreen]

9. Oh yea...

And it is a Y bridge.....

[In_The_Wind]

12. Oh yea ...

Don't miss the turn onto Route G ...

[mongo]

8. We're two blocks from the bridge

on W Main. Next time you're in the area you should stop by.

And I do understand when couples bring their toddlers in. Usually they take turns going in the back room or if the kid will sit in my chair they can watch their folks on the security monitor while they are in the back.

But a 10yo? Yikes!

[WCGreen]

10. Ten is far too young....

[JVS]

14. When I was a kid once, I needed a copy of computer shopper magazine...

because back then it was a huge magazine with lot's of information and prices, and because my parents were not well versed in computers. The local news store didn't have it, but they said that the guys over at bigger store, that carried almost every magazine and a bunch of porno, had it. Being about 12 I couldn't go into the store alone, so my mom and I went in and they quickly gave us the magazine we needed.

[skygazer]

15. Ten year old boy?

Wrong age and sex. Ten year old boys are just old enough to be really, really curious but really too young to get the details. If he was younger or older or even a girl (who would probably ignore it all with lofty disdain), it would make more sense to me.

I wouldn't want to be the one answering that kid's questions.

[LoZoccolo]

16. I've actually seen worse.

I was waiting for the bus at a stop across from Frenchy's in Chicago and these two women went in and left their like 9-10 year old girl outside the store on a city sidewalk, and I think she was with an even younger girl, while they went in. The girl understandably did not want to be left outside like that and started screaming, and then the mom came and yelled at her for putting her in a situation where she could get in trouble by attracting attention. Things fall apart.

[bigwillq]

17. That is crazy.

I would never break my kid in that store.

What is in the backroom? Just wondering. I've been to plenty of adult stores and I could probably figure out what is behind there.

[BamaGirl]

18. That is just creepy

That a kid would know what toys they have...not cool.

[SmileyBoy]

19. This is really wrong, but your post was SOOOOO fucking funny!!!

They bought "a dong and a vibe"?? LOL

Then the kid said, "you already have a blue one"??? LOLOLOLOL

I'm sorry, it's funny as hell...

[NashVegas]

20. Imagine That Kid on Show & Tell Day

Bet his teachers confiscate some really interesting things.

[bridgit]

21. to show him how myopic a horizon can truly be...

:shrug:

from:

The Tao Immortal...

'So Chun Yang had the motivation and the opportunity. It only remained to acquire the means. And that was what Zhong Li Quan was offering to supply. He’d teach him the necessary techniques. Chun Yang threw his heart and soul into the mastery of what is called the Small Cosmic Orbit, a powerful yoga practice that uses sexual energy to transmute the dross of human nature into the Gold of Immortality. He got so good at it he could make himself invisible or appear in two places at once…that is pretty: good.

and...

Identity of the world (samsara) and nirvana

Mind is the origin of all things.
Mind is the universal seed,
Both samsara and nirvana spring forth from it.

As is nirvana, so is samsara.
Do not think there is any distinction.
Yet it possesses no single nature
For I know it as quite pure.

Here there is no beginning, no middle, no end,
Neither samsara: nor nirvana.
In this state of highest bliss
There is neither: self: nor other.

Whatever you see, that is it,
In front: behind, in all the ten directions.

One should not think of molecules or atoms;
It is this supreme bliss that pours forth unceasingly as existence.

Do not sit at home, do not go to the forest,
But recognize mind wherever you are.
When one abides in complete and perfect enlightenment,
When samsara and where is nirvana?

Unity of self and other
"This is myself and this is another."
Be free of this bond which encompasses you about,
and your own self is thereby released.
Everything is Buddha without exception.

Do not discriminate, but see things as one,
Making no distinction of families.

Look and listen, touch and eat,
smell, wander, sit and stand,
Renounce the vanity of discussion,
Abandon thought and be not moved from singleness.
Abandon thought and be just like a child.

Do not then conceive differences in yourself.
When there is no distinction between body, speech and mind,
Then the true nature of the Innate shines forth.

Liberation through indulgence
I have visited in my wanderings shrines and other places of pilgrimage,
But I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.

Eat and drink, indulge the senses,
Fill the mandala (with offerings) again and again,
By things like these you'll gain the world beyond.

Enjoying the world of sense, one is undefiled by the world of sense.
One plucks the lotus without touching the water.
So the yogi who has gone to the root of things
Is not enslaved by the senses although he enjoys them.

Even as water entering: water
Has the same savior,
So faults and virtues are accounted the same
As there is no opposition between them.

The supreme bliss of orgasm
There is neither passion nor absence of passion.
Seated beside her own, her mind destroyed,
Thus I have seen the yogini.

That blissful delight that consists between lotus and vajra , ie, penis],
Who: does not: rejoice there?
This moment may be the bliss of means, or of both wisdom and means…
It is profound, it is vast.
it is neither self nor other . . .
Even as the moon makes light in black darkness,
So in one moment the supreme bliss removes all defilement.
When the sun of suffering has set,
Then arises this bliss, this lord of the stars.
It creates with continuous creativity,
And of this comes the mandala circle .
Gain purification in bliss supreme,
For here lies final perfection.

Critique of meditation
Thought bound brings bondage, and released brings release,
there's no doubt of that.

When bound, it dashes in all directions,
But: released: it stays still.
Consider the camel, friend.
I see there a similar paradox.

"One fixes the eyes, obstructs the thought, restrains the breath.
That is the teaching of our lord and master."
But when the flow of his breath is quite motionless,
And the yogi is dead, what then?

Critique of asceticism
The Jain monks mock the Way with their appearance,
With their long nails: and their filthy clothes,
Or naked and disheveled hair,
Enslaving themselves with their doctrine of release.

The purification of the intellect (Cittavisuddhiprakarana)
As a clear crystal assumes
The color: of another object,
So the jewel of the mind is colored
With the hue of what it imagines.

The jewel of the mind is naturally devoid
Of the color of these ideas.
Originally pure, un-originated,
Impersonal: and without stain.

So with all one's might, one should do
What ever fools: condemn,
And, since one's mind is: pure,
Dwell in union with one's divinity.

The mystics, pure of mind,
Dally with lovely girls,
Infatuated with the poisonous flame of: passion,
That: they may be set free: from desire . . .

The mystic duly dwells
On the manifold merits: of his divinity
He delight in thoughts of passion,
And by the enjoyment of passion is set free.

As a washer-man uses dirt
to wash clean a garment,
So: with impurity,
The wise man makes himself pure.

[Pale Blue Dot]

22. "You already have a blue one"

:rofl: