On Saturday we had a incident in the car park of B&Q. A neandethal male was having a go at some other guy who had possibly made a comment about him parking in a disabled space without a badge… (this could be a subject of another rant) but anyway the guy was f’ing and blinding at this other chap as I walked by with the children.
As it was quite a violent verbal onslaught I felt I had to say something to the effect of calm down mate please not in front of the children. To my utter astonishment he started laying into me with more vicious and fairly disgraceful language that was worse than before. I hurried the kids along towards the car, but this guy persisted.
What shocked me the most is that this guy felt it was perfectly acceptable to carry on in such of way particularly in front of children. One of his justifications in all his barrage of abuse, was that I did it so why shouldn’t he, it didn’t even occur to him that I didn’t and wouldn’t use such language or obscenity, especially not in front of my nor anybody elses children.
I was a bit disheartened that I didn’t come back with any pithy response in that moment that would have shut him up but then I suppose when the guy was using the argument that he would butt me to prove his grasp of the english language then I suppose no response would shut him up.
As we got back into the car, the children asked me why the guy was shouting and arguing so much, unfortunately I was unable to give them a satisifactory reply as to be honest I didn’t really know why. it is just such a shame that he couldn’t show any sort of restraint or respect for the innocence of children.
Thankfully we live in a part of the country where we don’t have to encounter that type of a scum of a person everyday, it just makes me fear for the sort of the world that our children are growing up in.
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March 20, 2006 at 10:28 pm
[...] After a couple of hours in Serendipities (the children had a great time and I read some of my book) we headed off to B&Q. Got the paint no issue but we had a little incident outside in the car park with a neandethal guy who insisted on offering out every single explitive under the sun in front of the children….. go here for a rant on that subject Once we had got through that it was off to Asda, oh how I loath Asda on a Saturday afternoon. However it wasn’t too bad, Emily decided she wanted to go in the trolley and I tasked Elizabeth with leading the way to the relevant aisles for the goods. To her credit she knew where the things were, bread, milk, fizzy pop, she was on the ball… a very good shopper how she is going to make me pay later in life I reckon… Bribery at Asda consisted of doughnuts and some cookies for after dinner, which ended up being fish and chips from the chippy. After which the children got themselves ready for bed and into their beds. [...]