Welcome to our slash entitled parents, where a spoiled brat eats a live crab at a pet store.

Our next credit post is from McGrooney.

For context, I work at a mom and pot pet store in the eastern U.S.

And while my expertise is in aquatics, I try to be a jack of all trades.

The day that this happened was rather uneventful up until this point.

Until entitled kid and entitled mom entered the store. My store was pretty modest, so it was fairly easy to

see customers come in and out, especially in the fish department. So I got a good first look at

these magnificent creatures. A 40-something-year-old woman talking on her cell phone. Her hair obviously

dyed blonde and an outfit practically screaming midlife crisis while her child was in tow. The kid must

have been seven or eight, playing on his switch. His shirt covered in what looked like a mixture of

pizza sauce, soda, and plenty of mystery stains. At first, things were pretty normal. The kid

originally not caring about anything in the store, while the mom was getting enraged at him for not

paying attention, though that changed rather fast. The two of them were near the ferrets, when the

mom took the kid's switch, immediately causing a reaction of screaming and pouting before being distracted by some

of the fish over in my department. The first thing the kid did was hit over to the small assortment

of hippotangs that we had, practically pressing his stained, covered face against the glass

as he yelled out, Dory, as loud as he could. For context, hippotangs are the same type of fish that Dory is from

finding Nemo. The mom hailed me down from my algae scrubbing and this started the encounter. I said,

Hey there, how's your night going? Need help with something? The mom started our encounter with a

roll of the eyes before pointing to the tang and demanding a price with a simple but rude.

How much for this thing? I told her the price was 160. It was a good size tang. Of course, she scoffed,

but what came next was a bit more worrying. The mom pulled out $30 from her purse and placed it on

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