Today at the grocery store a middle aged woman rammed my nephew with her cart. He was a few feet in front of us at the center of the store between aisles, and she just rammed right into him with her cart. My mother saw it better than I did and said it was deliberate. I only saw the woman’s expression as she didn’t even stop and apologize… I think it was deliberate too. After that, he stayed close by us, but when we passed by the woman again at the center of the store, I made a point of telling him loudly to stay close so Mean people wouldn’t hit him with their cart as we passed her again. A few aisle later, we passed her once again, and she started giggling! I wanted to rip the hair right out of her head. You don’t go around ramming four year olds with shopping carts; I don’t care if he’s in your way. I walked ahead and when I found her again, I stood glaring at her until my family caught up and stayed there glaring at her until they passed. She didn’t look up until they were almost past and then she saw me glaring at her, she started to walk away. My mother made some comment about a mother lion, and I said loud enough for the woman to hear that Bad things happen to Bad people. There’s no excuse for what she did. If it was an accident, you apologize. Any other action shows that it was deliberate. And just the expression on her face after she hit him was suspect…. She looked pleased. I hope that she doesn’t have any offspring because I’d hate to think what home life would be like for them. I am still furious. I wanted to go right up to her and ask her if she thought it was alright to hit little children with shopping carts, but I kept myself in check. I find myself hoping she has a horrible car accident, but then I’d feel bad for anyone else involved. Still, I hope someone catches her doing something awful like that again and calls the cops on her. I’ve no doubt that someone who’d clobber a four year old with a shopping cart does all kinds of nasty things which could get her thrown in a jail cell. If I had seen more than just her expression after she hit my nephew, you can bet I’d have had her arrested. I even considered going to the store office and asking them to remove her… but like I said, I didn’t actually see what happened, only her expression afterwards. If I’d seen someone do that to any child, I’d be angry. But she did it to my nephew, and I’m p***ed.
June 8th
The goddess Mens, consciousness, was honored with a festival designed to make us aware of what makes us human and to act consciously. (Kind of ironic considering what happened in the grocery store….)
Lindisfarne Day commemorates the first Viking Raid in England.
According to folk traditions, rain today meant a wet harvest.
In many Japanese villages, an ancient rice festival is held annually. Women wearing traditional kimonos recite prayers and light rice-straw fires to honor the god of the rice and to bless the crops. In China, the Grain in Ear festival is celebrated at this time. The grain Gods are honored with old rituals to ensure a harvest of plenty.
Tattoo
My webnovel so far…
Chapter 1.1 in which Glory is not mindful of the store
Chapter 1.2 in which Glory is made to do something she would really rather not
Chapter 1.3 in which Glory thinks she might be sick
Chapter 1.4 in which Aaron makes a mistake
Chapter 1.5 in which Glory is made to see the error of her ways
Chapter 1.6 in which the circle remains unbroken
Comments (11)
What a horrible woman! There is absolutely no excuse for that kind of behavior. We have run into people like that at the grocery stores too. My husband always makes a point about making comments to my son about how we should always be polite, even when other people don’t have good manners. This is usually said loudly and within earshot of the offending person. I hope your nephew wasn’t hurt badly.
Well, now, this is very interesting. Members of The Xanga Klique go shopping, apparently. Your reactions were entirely justified. We can only hope that in some way your comments will help her with essential inner work…but sadly it may not be anymore effective than my efforts on Xanga. It serves bad people less good than saying something to not point out in some fashion the wrong they commit. Maybe in a quiet moment she will feel some much needed shame. We can only hope.
@Lmoisan - Amen Momma.
Well you know where the balance between good and evil was today. Thank goodness they’re were more on the side of good. Makes me feel like we have a chance.
one day a long time ago something similar happened at my store between two different groups (one of the groups happened to be an associate and she had her baby in a stroller). a woman just rammed into it with her buggy. my friend almost got into a fist fight with her. of corse her baby was only a few weeks old. but still 4 years old or 4 weeks that is not acceptable behavior for adults.
I have done and said something very similarly when it came to my former, childhood neighbor and my harmless, childhood pooch, RIP.
some people are just plain mean, hmpf
now, i’m not for retaliation. after i read this, i got mad. i’m still mad. i don’t know what i would have done. but i probably would have made a comment about how you need to be nice to people even if they aren’t nice to you (to my nephew/niece/or whoever was with me). but it just amazes me how people can be mean to others.
*complex
@Complex_Simplicity_0705 - One should not be for retaliation, but also we should not make it easy, even for their own sakes, for people to be mean. One owes it to those who are bad to point it out, as encouragement for them to better themselves.
I am rather angry, too. I have never seen such cruelty in real life. It reminds me of a Roald Dahl story. I think I’ll have to go read your newest installment.
I’m sorry that happened to your nephew. I don’t know that I’d have shown the same restraint had someone done that to one of my children. How could that woman not even acknowledge hurting a child? That’s beyond mean.
Oh my! That’s horrible that an adult could be so cruel. I would be furious as well.
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