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Let it Out Indianapolis
Daycare
Dec 17, 2008Bruce
There is a nasty case of the Croup Virus going around Indy. I suspect my child picked it up at the Jordan Y. It's kind of scary if you don't know the warning signs. Oh and don't take your kid to daycare if they are sick, it's disrespectful and irresponsible.
girl that was killed by a speeding police car
Jan 3, 2009imjustsayin - Broadripple
So, I was watching the news the other day and they had a story about the girl that was struck by the police car. I would agree that it is sad that some one lost their life but I have to ask my self.. Why the hell was she out walking in the middle of the night? She had 2 children at home that was 6 and an 18 month old...She was twenty years old. Which would have made her 14/15 when she had the first child. Shouldn't she have been at home taking care of her children instead of trapsing through dimly lit streets??
To you smokers
Jan 6, 2009Jess - Indy
I'm a smoker, but I respect others. I don't sit and blow it in other peoples faces. However, as a mother myself, I see cars with their children in the back, windows rolled up or barely cracked, smoking. How do you find this ok? What's wrong with you people? This should be considered abuse. Nothing makes me more sick in my stomach then seeing a child having to breath in this disgusting air due to poor parenting. Some may say, "Well I blow it out the window..." Well, it doesn't matter! They're still inhaling disgusting second hand smoke that they can't escape from, all because you can't wait 10-20 minutes for a cig? I can't even smoke in my house because of my child, it's not fair to him. And what makes the government say that throwing out a cig from your car is illegal but yet we can suffocate our children who can't speak????
Re: To you smokers
Jan 7, 2009Pearl - Indy
I doubt if you are really a smoker. More than likely a disguised smoker critic. You speak of driving in the car noticing smokers with kids and want more laws to protect them. The car you are noticing is probably behind a semi or a bus spewing far more chemicals into the air or maybe they are driving right by an unprotected pond they could slip off the road and drown in.... as, sadly, many do everyday. That is a far worse dangerous and immediate situation!! What about the thousands of "real" child abuse cases which laws dont protect the children from death or suffering and happen everyday? Or what about the fact you are not paying attention to your own driving and you are posing a risk to the car with kids because you are so busy noticing what the drivers are doing and if their window is rolled down? Do you talk on your cell phone when driving while also taking the time to notice what others are doing or not doing in their own cars? If so, you are unlikely to admit that you do, but you are a greater risk than a smoker with their window down smoking a cigarette. You choose to not smoke around your kids, okay, but why do you want a "law" to force people to do what you think is a good idea? If you need an idea to champion the cause, there are plenty of serious life threatening things to lobby against. I cant stand someone who wants a "law" for everything they dont agree with.
false friends
Jan 7, 2009raving lunatic - northside
We all have them- false friends. These are the 'friends' that only call you when they want/need something. They are self-absorbed and selfish in life and expect you to jump when they call...but they act really nice and sweet to get you to do whatever it is they want at the time. They are hard to see at first because you get blinded by their sweetness/niceness in the beginning of the friendship. Case in point, I 'had' a friend who was this way, but I over-looked her 'bad' traits because her kids and mine played together a lot. Even though there were things that she did I didn't agree with or things in her past I didn't condone I still became friends with her, actually great friends. Of course one of the things she would do is dump her kids on me to watch whenever something came up that she wanted to do without the kids. I didn't judge her for these traits. I accepted her for who she was. So one night we watched a movie together, kids and all, and a few days later I go over to her house and she acts like I've done something bad to her. She finally decides to tell me that the other night when we were over at her house watching the movie she said her daughter told her that my son told her a dirty word and that her daughter went on the internet and was looking it up and got caught looking up the dirty word. While she is telling me this her OWN son is standing there and says, "it was in the movie we were watching that said the bad word." She immediately cuts him off and says that's not what happened. Her son's story sounds more plausible than my son just going up to her daughter, who by the way is 2 years older than my son, and telling her a bad word. So I decide to check out her son's story and I re-rented the movie and sure enough in the movie the main character yells out this 'dirty' word. And to top off the story the main character's name in the movie is the exact same name as my son's name. So I tell my 'friend' about the movie and the character saying it and his name and my 'friend' says she doesn't want to get into the he said/she said of the matter and that we are better off going our separate ways as friends. I wasted 4 years of babysitting her kids and helping her clean her house and helping her with her work and this is what she ends our friendship over? Lesson to learn from this rant? If you know of a friend like this where they never call you to just see how you are doing or when they call the call always seems to come back to them and what they need- don't be fooled by these people! Don't be swayed by their 'sneaky ways'. Just don't bother with them because they will always be self-absorbed and won't ever change.
Wreckless Hoodlums
Mar 16, 2009Denise - Canterbury
I live in the Canterbury neighborhood area. I have an 18 month old daughter and on a beautiful day as today was, it's nice to take her to play at the park. We took a nice stroll to the park and when we arrived it was picturesque. A hand full of moms with their toddlers and infants in tow and playing...gently playing. We started out at the swing and then made our way to the jungle gym. My daughter as I said is only 18 months but since she can walk and climb what better place for her to be than climbing up and down stairs to go down a miniature slide.
I guess I wasn't paying attention to the time but all of a sudden a wave of elementary children came barreling through the park...it was like seeing a pack of wild dogs that hadn't eaten for days come upon a freshly slaughtered animal. Before I knew it, I was ballooning my child from the sheer evil in these kids rather than holding her hand as she went up and down...and up and down. I felt like I was defending her instead of playing with her. She would just stand there as these hoodlums would barrel past her like she didn't even exist. At one point she was climbing up the stairs and 2 kids flew past her and nearly knocked her off. The thing that makes me enraged is that every single one of those kids had a parent near by...do you think they said a word...of course not. Here I am telling these kids to watch out. I'm not a babysitter...these kids should know better and so should there parents. Are you kidding me...whats wrong with you people?
One more story...my daughter was standing in front of a slide preparing herself to go down when a boy came up behind her and pushed her...as if to hurry her up. His mother was standing 10 feet away and even saw him do it and still didn't say anything. I looked at him with fire in my eyes and said "don't touch her". He said "I didn't". I wanted to toss him off the jungle gym. Note to self and all with small kids...stay away from the playgrounds after 3:30...thats when the evil ones come out to play.
Miserable Marsh Man
April 16, 2009Georgia - Glenndale
I often stop at Marsh to do some quick pick ups instead of going all the way out to Meijer, my preference but it was a nasty day so to Marsh we went. Shopping in the middle of the afternoon is generally a fairly peaceful time to stop and stock up on all the necessities. But when you have a toddler you never know when that peaceful time will really be. We started out strong but by about half way through she is standing in the large part of the cart stomping on the bread and grapes trying to climb her way out of the cart. By the time I got to the register I was so frustrated and dying to get the heck out of that store...so was everyone else. Side note....to you evil people that stare as we pass by with our screaming children, you were there too at one point....stop staring!!! Back to the story...
When you go to the register at Marsh they always ask "paper or plastic". Trying to do my part for the environment, I always ask for paper...don't judge I don't use canvas . The bagger, mean old grump, put an entire cart full of groceries into 4 bags. He must have been delirious about the strength of those bags, or he was pissed my kid wouldn't be quiet. We get out to the car and as I'm loading them each and every bag breaks. I'm losing my cool and then the bag with a 6-pack of yogurt explodes and rolls everywhere. I so badly wanted to march back into the store and complain, next time I will. Mean old bagger!!!
The art of being an obnoxious ass
Oct 19, 2009Frustrated - northside
My son plays on a travel U10 ( all the boys are under 10 years of age ) soccer club and we play teams from all over the city and other cities and states as well. Over the last 2 years of playing on this team we have encountered many teams we love to play and would gladly play many times over because it's good soccer. There is one team we collectively hate to play, not because of the boys on the other soccer team, but rather the parents of the soccer team and it's coach. I have never met a more nasty group of parents or coach than I have with this team.
When we first played this team the coach asked our coach how long we have been playing together and he told her we had just formed the team a couple months prior which was the truth. We ended up beating her team and after the game when the coaches normally shake hands and tell each other, 'good game' she proceeded to walk past our coach and call him a, ' fucking liar' ( I assume because she didn't believe him when he told her we had just been together for a few months ). That was the beginning of this relationship. From that point forward every time we play this team we have to endure the parents of this team yelling and screaming at OUR kids, not their own kids, during soccer play.
We played them in a tournament by ft. Ben and while we were IN PLAY, their parents were yelling at one of our players, " You look too old to be on this team!!! how old are you?! When's your birthday?!!!" THIS WAS SAID DURING tournament PLAY to a 9 year old boy!!!! So this boy starts to get upset and cry because these parents are yelling at him. So one of our parents went over to their side to tell them not to talk to our players during play and he couldn't even get them to listen because they were acting like he wasn't there.
There is a good side I guess to some of the parents because a few did come up to our side later on and said they are embarrassed by how the other parents act during games.
It just gets worse and worse the more we play this team though.
One of the major points when we play this team is that soccer, even at this young age group, can get rough. The boys are pushing and shoving to get to the ball first and it does get aggressive. I understand that and have over the last year come to cope with watching these young kids getting aggressive. We played this team once where their boys were being a bit too aggressive and this one play they took out our goalie with an elbow to his face this was after he had kicked the ball away ( think of it like a football quarterback who has thrown the ball and the other team isn't allowed to touch him once he's gotten rid of the ball). So when their player did this the ref never blew the whistle and the father of this kid yelled at the ref to call the foul. The ref said they didn't see what happened. The parents from the other team start yelling at this father that it was a fair play. The father says he just wants his child to be safe while playing soccer because he signed him up to play soccer not football. So the coach on their team yells across the field, "Then take him home!!!!"
At this point we, as a collective team, should have just packed up our kids and walked away from this game. Our coach should have gone to their coach and told her that was unacceptable as a coach to say and that she should apologize to the father. But we allowed this nasty coach to bully us into not doing the right thing which should have been end the game. Why didn't we end the game? It would have meant this team gets a 'win' for us leaving.
This is the least of their obnoxious attitude. Because we are in the same age group and we do the same tournaments we will invariably be playing the same time they are playing another team and have to listen to their parents screaming and hooting and hollering the whole time while they play the other game. What I have come to notice this team does and makes me want not to play them anymore at any cost is I watched a game they played against another team.
I sat there and was a passive bystander to see if maybe I was just being a little too sensitive to this team and wasn't giving them a fair shake. What I saw was that this team played a team that wasn't as good as they were. Before half time this team was beating the other team by 7-0. In soccer that is a huge deficit. It pretty much means you aren't going to come back unless some miracle comes your way. What I saw and heard is that each and every time this team scored a goal, the parents were hooting and hollering and yelling. There's one thing to be happy for your team that they scored a goal, but once the score gets to a point where you are skunking the other team and you can clearly see that the team isn't up to your caliber you stop yelling and hooting and jumping up and down. It's unsportsmanlike to sit there and yell and whoop it up when your team just scored their 10th goal to the other teams 0 goals. Again remember this is U10 division. These kids are all under 10 years of age.
So to top off the cherry on this game after they beat the team by a massive margin the team proceeds to run around the field doing airplane wings and the parents the whole time are yelling and partying it up and then to accent their win against this team they start chanting for one of their players to do a 'flip' in celebration. The parents all get together in the middle of the field and sit there yelling, " FLIP! FLIP!FLIP!FLIP!" and they celebrate while a player does a back flip.
Every game this team plays it's the same thing. It doesn't matter how much they win by they do the same obnoxious cheering and the celebration show after the game is over is just the final straw.
If we were to play this team without their parents there or their coach, it would be a good game, because this team is a good team. They play hard and it puts our guys to the wall to play harder. But at what cost do we keep allowing this sort of behavior from the parents and coach?
Teacher/Student Affairs
Jan 22, 2010Natasha
I keep seeing stories on the news about teachers having 'relations' with students. I think that this is disgusting and very wrong, but I'd like to ask this... what about the students and parents responsibility?! The majority of teenaged girls today are permiscuous and have seemingly no respect for themselves. Oral sex is considered to be no different than "making out" in this generation. Perhaps the students behaving like hookers to gain popularity is part of the problem. Parents - pay attention to your girls and teach them to respect themselves. Not only do we need more responsible teachers, we need more responsible parents and for the girls to be held accountable for their actions. Take a look around. These aren't all innocent little girls.
Political Terrorist
Mar 25, 2010Policitcally Incorrect -Indianapolis
Recent headlines,"local 11 year old calls 911 and saves his mommy from attack by her boyfriend."
I have sympathy for the child.
I have NO sympathy for the mother.
She deserves what she gets: she brings thugs into her home around her child.
In addition, she brought a man home outside of her race. Her child must have really been confused! Seeing mommy dating men outside of her race must have had the child discombobulated.
What is a young white child to think seeing mommy bring home men outside of his race?!
Obviously, the mother is morally and ethically bankrupt!
Ironically, she is now marked for life. No decent white man will ever touch her or become seriously involved in her life. She now has no choice but to remain in the cycle of abuse with her chosen men of color!
Her young son has yet to see the faults of his mommy!
The grandmother was proud of her young grandchild: I wonder if she is equally proud of her daughter who prefers men outside of her race?!?
What a disgrace!
