Bad Parenting

So the other day at work I was just off my break and heading back to my till. Just past the shoe department was a shopping cart with two young children in it. I'm talking a 4 year old and a 2, maybe 3, year old. At about this time one of my coworkers walked up; she was going on break. We stopped the children from pulling some clothes off the racks and looked around for a parent because we figured they were close by.
I glanced around but didn't see any adults without shopping carts perusing the shelves. I hesitated, wondering if I should call someone (it was the first time I'd seen two apparently abandoned children). We asked the children where their parent was. The little boy said his mom told them to stay there and something about his dad being gone.
My coworker and I decided leaving the children alone would be a very bad idea, and we debated on whether or not to take the kids to the courtesy desk and page for the parents. We saw a manager slowly coming our way and decided that he'd know what to do. So we waited.
At about that moment another one of our coworkers saw what was going on and told us the kids dad was in the infants section, she'd seen him leave. She called him over and my coworker immediately asked why he left his children alone. All I caught was him saying "Oh they're fine, he's a big four year old." Obviously my coworker wasn't happy with that reply, nor was I but I had to get back to work, as I was leaving I heard my coworker explaining how easy it is for someone to just come up and walk away with the kids.

It just goes to show that any idiot can have children. I feel so sorry for that man's children. At least he was smart enough not to leave the baby in the cart too.
Oh? Did I forget to mention he had a baby in a chest harness as well as his other two? Yeah.