'I was in a large grocery store on a Saturday morning - my bad - and the place was packed. You could hear a child "literally" screaming bloody murder throughout the store. Seriously, shoppers were stopping in the aisles to ask each other "Is someone murdering a child?" When I finally entered the same aisle as the not-yet-dead child, I saw a boy about 8 screaming his head off, while mom and grandma carried on shopping. Finally, one older lady whispered "poor dear, maybe he's autistic." I don't give a tiny rat's hiney what the child's problem was. There were two adults. If he can't handle grocery stores at all, he can stay home with one of the adults. If he was just having a temporary meltdown, one adult should have taken him the car. I get there are times when parents don't have a choice but to drag a child along. But this parent had a choice.