Post by jennysmitten on Aug 21, 2013 11:37:31 GMT -5
Holy Crap! I sent this to my husband, he is a skateboarder. It is amazing how many parents let their kids run around the parks and then get angry at the skatboarders/bikers.
If this was posted from the mom's POV,, I'd be willing to bet there'd be a whole lotta people coming to her defense instead of his.
But you know the mom would say, "there we were, at the (skateboard) park when this guy came flying out of nowhere (AKA skateboarding park) and he RAN INTO MY BABY (who I let out of my sight and reach) on his BIRTHDAY (that a stranger would have no idea about). The guy left my kid on the ground (and immediately got up to check on him) while my friend picked up my baby (because I wasn't close enough) and then I shoved that skateboarder (before checking on my child) and then I punched him in the face (even though he apologized and it was an accident and I should have been watching my kid more closely in a skate park).
I bet that's her version.
I'm a mom & I think her behavior was atrocious. It was an accident. Accidents happen. The guy tried apologizing and the mom comes up swinging?
So basically, a small, unsupervised kid was being a small, unsupervised kid, who went into an area they shouldn't have, and got hurt because someone who was already there didn't think to look for small children in an area where small children shouldn't be.
And then mom had a bitch fit when her kid got hurt, except nobody really checked to see if kid was actually hurt?
I don't care if this happened on the damn sidewalk, you shouldn't hit a random stranger. Not in any universe is that okay to do.
I'm a mom & I think her behavior was atrocious. It was an accident. Accidents happen. The guy tried apologizing and the mom comes up swinging?
Team Sk8ter.
This is what kills me. The guy was clearly upset that he ran into the kid. He was clearly sorry. But hell- it was an accident. And the kid shouldn't have been there. But yet the mom felt it necessary to HIT him?!?!
Dude, this is exactly why you don't bring a fucking toddler to a skate park where guys are going like 40 miles an hour and doing stunts and stuff. And if you do bring your fucking toddler, you, oh I don't know, WATCH HIM?? She's lucky he just got knocked down.
Simmer down. If I bump into someone and it's not my necessarily my fault, I still say "oops, sorry". So yeah, I think the skateboarder, even though skating in a skate park, should be aware of his surroundings and it would be nice of him/her to say "oh, sorry, I didn't see little Bobby over there - is he okay?" I just think that is the decent thing to do.
Also, I didn't say anything about the birthday - I don't understand either why that is relevant.
I don't know, I just see expecting an apology as different from wanting some acknowledgement of it. Would I be annoyed if he just kept going? Sure, but it certainly wouldn't have been his fault, and in my mind, apologies by default admit you did something wrong.
And no, I didn't think you said anything about the birthday issue, I just thought it was really weird!
I wouldn't expect an apology, exactly. I mean, if he didn't say anything then I wouldn't go off on the kid or yell at him, but it would nice, you know what I mean?
Dude, this is exactly why you don't bring a fucking toddler to a skate park where guys are going like 40 miles an hour and doing stunts and stuff. And if you do bring your fucking toddler, you, oh I don't know, WATCH HIM?? She's lucky he just got knocked down.
This. He could have been seriously injured, she needs to realize that she made a huge mistake by not watching him.
What a total fucking lunatic. This would be like taking your kid to the park and not paying attention and then them getting hit by a swing and punching the kid that was swinging.