Today I Am Mostly Hexing…
Today I am mostly hexing the FRICKING AWFUL woman who screamed at me after I grabbed her son’s arm to stop him running into the road.
Yeah, way to go, love, it’s TOTALLY fine to yell at someone who may have just saved your young boy’s life. You not only scared me and my baby, your own child was terrified of you as you laid into me on the street (oh and thanks, Pointless Bystanders, for leaping to my defence. Not). I thought I was doing you a favour. Clearly I should have watched coolly as he raced past me, off the kerb, and into the path of a car or motorbike or lorry. Bellowing ‘get the fuck off my boy’ – plus other expletives – at me was unnecessary and unsettlingly aggressive. You cowbag.
I only grasped his arm. Well, mostly T-shirt. It’s not like I hooked my fingers into his eye sockets and dragged him to the ground and then sat on him for good measure. So don’t react like you did.
You know what? Next time you let your child run free I kind of hope he does get in the road, and there isn’t a responsible person around who has the foresight to prevent a potentially tragic situation* and then you have to scream obscenities at the driver of the car who has just mown down your son instead.
Anyway. You RUINED a perfectly lovely day. So, you’re hexed. Maha.
*This is a lie. If it happened again, and I was there, I’d grab him again in a heartbeat.
Silly mare. If I was unlucky enough to walk passed her again I would sneakily stick my leg out to trip her. But thats just my happy go lucky nature!
Oh dear, sounds like she was projecting her anger and shock at the wrong person! You know how sometimes you instinctively shout at kids when they do something wrong even though you don’t mean to shout – you’re just venting frustration? I guess this was how she was feeling and maybe embarrassed she hadn’t been watching her child properly…
Anyway, this is very sad, I hope she was able to think more clearly about it later on and realise she was wrong. Either way, you did the right thing, that’s all that matters. Just think about that poor 6 year old Owen who was recently killed by a hit-and-run. If you had stopped my child from running into the road, I wouldn’t have been able to thank you enough.
Rereading all this reminds me of the time some woman came up to Rich when Emily was crying and said “OOoh, you do realise that it’s dangerous for small babies to get too hot you know?”. Bearing in mind this was just after Christmas when we had all that snow and we were OUTSIDE.
Why do people feel the right to come up and talk to you (aka criticise) when you have a baby? Ok, sometimes I may look like I having no frigging clue what I’m doing but it doesn’t help when a complete stranger points that out to you.
Because you’re public property when you’re pregnant/have a small child. Guess we’d better get used to it!! Nnnnrgh
And the Dumbass Award of The Day goes to………..**drum roll**………… stupid ungrateful bint who doesn’t watch her own child near a road.
Oh my god! Wow! Thats an extreme reaction to someone that has just saved your childs life! Maybe she did it out of shame and embarrassment at her taking her eye off him! Still though theres no need for behaviour like that!
Shame, embarrassment, yeah I get that… but what I got felt very different to that. She didn’t seem embarrassed, just genuinely furious that I had grabbed her son. She yelled ‘He would have f***ing stopped cos I f***ing told him to’ – well, he didn’t look like he was going to stop, in fact her shouting ‘Jordan! Stop!’ is what alerted me to the blur of the boy as he dashed past me. Anyway. I feel better about it today, I think if I saw her I’d just put my head down and move swiftly away.
Thanks for reading and commenting! Maybe next time you’ll comment on a cheerier post!!
Agree. Stupid just seems to run freely doesn’t it? Along with rude…
That is just TERRIBLE!!!! I once had a lady grab my baby girl who stood up in the grocery cart when I had my back turned. SHE apologized for grabbing her…. I said… “WHY are you sorry? THANK YOU for grabbing her or we would be going to the ER right now.” I have been screamed at too for using a “lease” on my toddler when I was 9 (million) months preggo with my youngest. I just walked away.
Some people are such cows. YOU did the right thing. KUDOS to you for having a brain when clearly his own Muther didn’t.
That’s horrendous! I bet you were in such a state of shock about stopping the boy AND then having his mother launch into a vocal attack for actually helping out that you couldn’t form the words to say anything. (I too am prone to not saying suitable retorts at the time but thinking up some exceptionally good ones later). Where did it happen? If you do see her again then be ready I’d say. Just think what she may have called Joe if it had been him stopping the boy!
I’d very much like to think that if Emily decided to have a death wish in a similar fashion I’d be very grateful for the stopping arm of a noble passer-by.
Oh, and incidentally, perhaps the woman was venting her frustration on you rather than admit she was in the wrong for not paying proper attention? Not much consolation but might be something in that?
You, Jess and me (aka the Bishopston Coven) should get together the triple hex her! We’d just need a frog’s eyeball, hair of a cat and a sliver of unicorn horn. Sorted.
Shocking. Stupid woman.
Some people are unbelievable aren’t they? I remember shouting at two kiddies from my school to stay on the pavement as they were about to step out into the path of a car. The man in the car gave me plenty of abuse, assuming I was their mother, for daring to allow my children to play near the road. Um well actually you’re the one doing 40 in a cul de sac mate! Thankfully at least the parents were grateful.
Boo. People are rubbish. I’m worried I’ll see her again out and about and she’ll say something or whatnot
What an ARSE. I’d have invoiced her for childcare services provided.
I know
I hate being shouted at. I never shout back although I think of stuff to say hours later!