Unspoken Thoughts and Moral Dilemmas from the Playground

"Bitch please. You dressed your kids in white clothes and brought them outside to play in the mud and expected them top stay clean? What is wrong with you?"

Yesterday after the movies Mr. Little Man and I decided to go the playground. It was a little cool and wet, but the sun was shining and it was better than being confined indoors. There was still a little bit of snow on the ground, but it was melting, thus resulting in mud.

Now, the chances of your child getting dirty on the playground in any kind of weather is pretty darn high. Thats what kids do, they get dirty. Thats why there are things like soap and washing machines, but this crazy woman was berating her children for getting dirty. They're kids at a playground, what did she expect?

It just about drove me nuts that this heifer proceeded to berate her kids when one of them got a bit of dirt on her pants. The child was in tears and the mother just kept breaking her down. This was not normal yelling, this was really scary and the final straw was when the kids kept covering their faces with theirs hands (palms out.....DEFENSIVE). At this stage in the game I started to wonder what I was supposed to do. Should I have said something (I soooo wanted to)? Should I call some help? Did that constitute abuse? Did this kid put up with her mother's crap often? Should I just stay out of it? All I wanted to do was take my child to the park for the afternoon and all of a sudden I am embroiled in a moral dilemma. The hell?

Luckily (THANK YOU POWERS THAT BE!) some elderly folks on the playground said something to the crazy lady and saved me from having to......who knows? That is one of those crappy situations where if you say something you'll feel like an ass, but at the same time if you keep your mouth shut and see the parent on the news the next week being carted off to jail for child abuse you'll never forgive yourself.

Things were so much easier when I was a kid and my mother used to beat us in public and no one batted an eye.

What I am reading: Maya Angelou......I am in one of those moods.
What I am listening to: Herbie Hancock - Possibilities. Christina Aguilera does a cover of "A Song for You" on this CD that is absolutely amazing. I generally hate her, but I listened to the song before I realized who sang it and I was blown away. I need her to record a jazz album (have we decided to say CD?) STAT!!