Play Nice
I was at a mall playground with my wife and two kids. My son was 3 years old and was running around with about 20 more kids, most of them his age. Keep in mind that kids can’t be taller than 3 feet to play in this little kid playground. There was this one big woman and she was watching about four kids. All of them were taller than 4 feet and they were playing rough.
My son goes around the area they were playing at and starts playing by himself when one of the kids tries to kick him. My wife calmly walks that way with my 3-month-old daughter and tells the woman to watch her kids because they were playing a little rough. She said, “Ok, whatever.” My wife stays there and watches just in case something happens.
The older kid goes running towards my son and pushes him. My wife tells the kid, who’s about 9 years old, not to push my son. The woman flips out and starts screaming, “Don’t scream at ma baby!” My wife tells her that she should pay more attention to her kids and how they were too old to be playing around smaller kids.
She tells my wife to shut up and not tell her how to raise her kids. My wife starts walking away and the woman starts getting louder, so from my seat which was 15 feet away, I yell at her, “You do not talk to my wife that way. Your kids are misbehaving and you are doing nothing about it. Learn how to be a good parent.”
She shuts up and looked at me in disbelief. She didn’t know I was with my wife, or that I would talk to her like that in front of so many people. She then started to talk nonsense again and we ignored her. After 5 minutes of her rant, my wife got the security guard and got her kicked out of the place. A bit after she passes by again, making threatening signs at my wife, but when I look at her she stopped and looked away.
I was seriously raging and about to throw hands, but I tried my best to calm down and be a responsible adult.