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Wreckless Hoodlums

Mar 16, 2009
Denise - Canterbury

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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.

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