Thursday, September 24, 2009

Aren't there more important things in life?

Jeff, the kids, and I went for a walk around the neighborhood, as we have many many times before. Correction... we walk, Peyton rides his bike. He will often ride ahead of us (just to the end of the block) and wait for us to catch up so we can cross the street together. As he's waiting for us, he apparently looks down and sees all this dirt next to the sidewalk. Being a 5 yr old boy, he starts to play in it. The Wicked Witch of the West comes flying out of her house and starts to tell Peyton not to play in it because there is grass seed planted there. She waits for us to come to the end of the block with arms crossed and the meanest face. We are greeting her with a smile because all the elderly tend to smile and just eat up our kids. Its the highlight of their night to talk to the kids as we go past. Well that was not the case for this woman. She says to us "We have a problem here!" Jeff and I say "Ok?", to which she says "He's over here digging in the dirt and there is grass seed planted here!!!!!" (all the explanation points to emphasize her anger) Jeff says "He's just a 5 year old boy, he doesn't know its not just dirt" Now had she treated us with respect and just asked us to not allow him to play in it, we would have apologized and moved on. No, she had to flip out and tell us that we should be watching our kids and how dare he play in it, she's obviously trying to grow grass. Well as hot tempered as I can get, I tell the lady "Lady get over it, its just grass seed! He didn't know any better. He's just a little kid!" I proceed to keep walking. She was fit to be tied already due to Peyton's ridiculously dispicable behavior and then I topped it off. Give me a break lady!!! He's 5 and thought it looked like a fun dirt pile to play in! What boy doesn't want to stop and play in the dirt. Is he supposed to see the tiny little seeds and know that they are to grow grass and not just part of the fun?!?!? I guess we all have our "things", but come on! I should feel bad for her and her constant state of misery, but wow did she tick me off!!

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