Being a mother I have tried to raise my children to have respect for all people. They can be rambunctious at times... but when we are in public they listen.
Today I am out shopping, there is a boy about the same age as my son pushing the cart while his mother shops. The mother is walking through the aisles and choosing this and that at random. Meanwhile her son is drag racing the cart up and down the aisle. Hitting a top speed of 12.53 miles an hour... the kid rams the cart into my spine.
I have a bad back to begin with. So that kind of jolt knocked me to the floor. This was not a pleasant feeling what so ever.
The thing about this whole situation that galls me the most is, she considered it my fault. I am laying on the floor and she comes up to me and says "You know.. you really should watch where you are going from now on and look out for people pushing carts." Not one word to her son. She did not reprimand him for his actions... nor did she apologize.
People wonder why kids act the way that the do? There is the poster family! If I wouldn't have worried about getting arrested I would have tanned that kids ass myself.
