Chadeaux
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- Sep 13, 2011
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I had to go to Wally's World today with my daughter to buy groceries today ... I'm off work sick, but the wife is sicker so I get to go ... anyhow:
On the way out to my vehicle, I look up and see a young boy (probably almost 3 years old) with a huge grin on his face and running wildly (and unaccompanied) through the busy parking lot.
Concerned for his safety I tried to grab him but he was too far. Called to him and he slowed a step or so before taking off into the busiest traffic lane heading for the front door. I look in front of me, and there is an older woman in a Honda busy looking into her purse along with a 4 or 5 year old girl. Both doors on the driver's side are open and it's obvious by his appearance that he is the brother of the little girl.
Terrible horrible person that I am, I LOUDLY stated how irresponsible the adult in the vehicle was. My daughter (now 20 years old) decides that I was cruel and says that I'm mean for saying something that might hurt the woman's feelings.
Just about that time the child, who had successfully made it all the way to the front of the store, darts off the sidewalk into traffic in front of an oncoming truck. Fortunately, the young man driving wasn't on the phone and stopped before hitting the child.
So, me and my big mouth once again states, while the woman is standing in the door of her car and definitely can hear me, that "That woman is just plain irresponsible, and that child almost paid the price for her ignorance!"
Now my daughter is angry and telling me what an awful person I am for hurting that woman's feelings!
Guess it would have been okay to say nothing at all and the results could have been different --- the child could have died while she's digging for her phone or her wallet. Somehow that would be the "adult" thing to do? Not in my world!
This just angered me that calling an irresponsible person irresponsible in public is somehow a sign that I have "issues"!
On the way out to my vehicle, I look up and see a young boy (probably almost 3 years old) with a huge grin on his face and running wildly (and unaccompanied) through the busy parking lot.
Concerned for his safety I tried to grab him but he was too far. Called to him and he slowed a step or so before taking off into the busiest traffic lane heading for the front door. I look in front of me, and there is an older woman in a Honda busy looking into her purse along with a 4 or 5 year old girl. Both doors on the driver's side are open and it's obvious by his appearance that he is the brother of the little girl.
Terrible horrible person that I am, I LOUDLY stated how irresponsible the adult in the vehicle was. My daughter (now 20 years old) decides that I was cruel and says that I'm mean for saying something that might hurt the woman's feelings.
Just about that time the child, who had successfully made it all the way to the front of the store, darts off the sidewalk into traffic in front of an oncoming truck. Fortunately, the young man driving wasn't on the phone and stopped before hitting the child.
So, me and my big mouth once again states, while the woman is standing in the door of her car and definitely can hear me, that "That woman is just plain irresponsible, and that child almost paid the price for her ignorance!"
Now my daughter is angry and telling me what an awful person I am for hurting that woman's feelings!
Guess it would have been okay to say nothing at all and the results could have been different --- the child could have died while she's digging for her phone or her wallet. Somehow that would be the "adult" thing to do? Not in my world!
This just angered me that calling an irresponsible person irresponsible in public is somehow a sign that I have "issues"!
