I had a recent 3 day event with the city to celebrate the fourth. They hired me to be there for free face painting, so I was swamped as you can imagine. Normally I consider myself pretty patient with kids, crowds and people as I think you have to be in this profession. I enjoy the atmosphere when out face painting... all the people, cute kids, loud music and the funny things people say and do.
But there was this one child that was driving me nuts. A previous customer had left their soda bottle and I didn't remove it right away because I thought they might come back for it. One child around 3 or 4 who was obviously bored in line decided to start playing with it by slamming it onto the table near me... over and over and over. It was loud and disruptive and was beginning to be a bother, but I thought surely his parents would say something, because it looked like it would explode with sticky soda everywhere. They didn't and this went on and on and on. I was debating if I should do something or not, when he decided to go around my one long table and launch it into the air over it onto another long table. He'd run around, grab it and go back to do it again. Still, no one said anything, so finally after he did this a few times, I went over, took the soda and said "this is an accident waiting to happen" and threw it away. I think the other adults were happy someone finally did something, because it was also loud and annoying, but I don't know and I don't know if his parents were upset with me. Did I handle this the right way? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Face Painting and Body Art Association." This is a PG-13 forum dedicated to the discussion of Face Painting and Body Art. This group is provided for the benefit of all and as such is not moderated. Our goal is to promote open and unrestricted communication between people interested in face painting and body art. We hope that you will be courteous to others and try to stay on topic. You are free to offer products or services related to face painting as well. Please address concerns with the original poster before contacting the management. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fpba-assn -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
