I have been out sick from work for the past 2 days. Yesterday, the first day I was out sick, my wife mentioned phone problems.
We have Vonage, the voice over the internet phone. I love it. It is cheap as hell and the quality is fine. At least it was fine until people couldn't hear us when we called them. Long story short, I got the problem fixed in the short term, but found that my cable modem was old and I needed to get a new one.
My wife is away at work, so I pack up the old cable modem and the boy and take a drive to my local Comcast. There is a woman in line ahead of me and there is a couple already being serviced. This couple is kinda...hmm how do I put this tactfully...?
They are dirty fucking people. They look disgusting. Their clothes are dirty. They look like they haven't showered. I would wager to guess that they smelled bad.
They were dirty.
They had a little boy with them. This boy was about my sons height.
The woman in front of me asked how old my son was. I told her that he was a year and a half. Dirty couple must have heard me. Their son was crawling through his dads legs. The dad was trying to talk with the clerk and this kid was all over him. Once he didn't get any attention from his dad he decided to lay on the floor and roll around. He was rubbing his head on the carpet that people wiped their feet on. He was rolling all over the floor.
The whole time my kid is standing there holding my hand laughing his ass off. The dirty mom finally takes enough time from her own stench to say "Stop doing that Hunter. That boy is younger than you and he is behaving. You are going to teach him bad habits." She then looks at me and smiles.
It's then that I get a good look at her face.
She has a goatee. She looked like my face after not shaving for like six days. It was disgusting. I mean I get that women sometimes have mustaches and they need to be taken care of, but to not take care of a goatee? Jesus.
So gross.
As soon as she said that her kid was gonna teach my kid bad habits I just laughed and thought "No bitch...my kid won't learn those bad habits. I'm what you call an 'active parent' look it up."
So we finally get to a representative and my son is acting up. He actually slaps my hand away. I take his hand and slap it and tell him "You don't hit." The lady who was helping me stared at me.
It didn't occur to me that she probably thought I was a horrible father for slapping my sons' hand.
I honestly could care less. A slap on the and or the wrist or even on the cheek is better than raising a monster who thinks they can just run around in a business or rub his body all over a floor.
I want my kids to grow up to be respectable adults. If that means a slap here and there....so be it.
1 comment:
I am not a 100, but a 10000% with you on this one.
I grew up respecting my mother and father exactly because I was tought discipline. And sometimes it hurted, but it helped me to learn the letter, and respect (be affraid) enough not to try it again as I've learned there were consequences.
I grew up and learned that kids who were allowed to do anything would always endup not learning their message, as they never learned the consequences.
You should not spank your kid. But teach them a lesson, I am all for it....
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