Saturday 24 March 2012

unreasonable, unflexible, unkind

At the Clemejentri playground in falls church, virginia: A boy had (i gathered) commented that he was cold. His monster mother gave him a choice between wearing his little sisters pink fluffy jacket or her oversized sweater. He pouted and said he didn't want to wear a sweater and was fine and wanted to go play. She demanded for the next 5 minutes that he choose a sweater. His slightly older brother was watching, wanting to go play, but not allowed to do so. The mother said "If you don't wear one of these jackets we're going to go to the car and even if you change your mind we won't come back! She started moving towards the car. Nobody was happy. I was staring, fixated on what was going on, feeling sorry for the powerless boy forced to make a decision between two unsatisfactory choices. I bet he was wishing he'd never mentioned how cold he was.

Eventually the older brother gave his younger brother his vest, and his mother demanded he choose between the sweaters, and he was wearing his mothers oversized sweater that went to his knees and whose sleeves were way too long for him. It looked ridiculous and he couldn't really move in it, so the mother eventually allowed him to take it off.

It was mild and sunny.

She was sooo unreasonable!!!

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