Friday, January 21, 2011
This probably won't be a very long blog, but I'm going to write about something I saw this evening that kind of upset me. It's the type of thing I seem to be seeing more and more often with teens. Right around 5 p.m., I went to the bank ATM to grab some money for my son (it never ends) for a birthday party snowboarding trip. There was one car ahead of me; I always stay at last one car length behind the person at the ATM, my husband tells me that this is proper ATM etiquette...whatever. The driver was a girl, probably around 17 and the passenger was, I'm assuming, her boyfriend. As she went to put her card in the slot, she dropped it and it went underneath the car. She opened her door, but of course she could only open it a few inches since she was pulled up right close to the little building. I could see the young man (using the term loosely) next to her, flailing his arms around like he was yelling. The passenger door flew open and he started barking orders at her. She backed up the car as she was told, he bent down and picked up the card then threw it at her open window. What a little jerk! I wanted to jump out of my truck and knee him in the groin! Then he was yelling "Get out!! Get out!!" So as he went and sat back in the passenger side, waiting to be chauffered around, she obediently went to the ATM, by foot, and made her transaction. I was so irritated seeing him puff out his chest and belittle the girl behind the wheel I could have easily beat the crap out of him! What bothered me even more, was the fact that I was thinking "If I get out and say something, will he pull a gun on me? Could he have a knife? Will they follow me home (on his orders) then destroy my property?" I hate having to think about these things. It makes me sad for the girl, sad for me and sad for the world.
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Carly, I would have like to beat the crap out of him too! It is so sad what girls are putting up with now days. Low self-esteem plays a big part in this, I think. And you are right about worrying if he has a gun or knife, what in the hell is this world coming to! I wish sometimes it was "the good ol day".
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, maybe she is really annoying and had completely pushed the dude over the edge by this point in the day-though one should always be courteous.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Nicole. I would have beat the crap out of him and Im old 5 foot 2! It is so sad that girls let men treat them this way. It is a sad crazy world we live in. I would have thought the same thing about the gun of knife! You really never know what people are capable of.
ReplyDeleteI think what do I think. I was in an abusive relationship with my exhusband - there is a dynamic of both people in the situation. The girl plays a part and the guy plays a part. My son was rude last week so I stopped the car and had him walk the rest of the way to school - he was late but I wanted him to understand that it wasn't o.k. for him to be rude to me. I try to stay away from judging people - I think to create a more peaceful world we have to practice peace inside ourselves which is why Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa are all role models for me.
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