A RBM to admire from a safe distance!

One of the best bad mommies I know is someone I've never met, but read about on a loop. A virtual friend of a friend. This woman's daughter would sometimes get very surly and uncooperative when she and her mother went grocery shopping. The mom was always completely cheerful. She'd just give her a big smile, take a deep breath, and start belting out "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" at the top of her lungs. Actually, her daughter almost never gave her a hard time on these trips any more, because her mom was completely shameless. She'd keep it up loud and proud until her daughter was silently begging for sweet death to release her (the daughter, although possibly the mom, too) from this torture.

I love this so much. A kid's got nothing on you if you pull this. She can't do the "Help, my mommy's being mean to me!" thing. She can't call Amnesty International. She can't even complain, really. She's just got a happy, happy mommy who wants to share her cheer with the whole wide world.

And to everybody who's going to write in saying how evil it is that I would laugh at this: Look, I know it's a drag to be a kid and have to go on boring errands. But really? It's fun for us grownups?

Well, it is now. Now that we know how to make it fun.