originally posted 29 OCT 2014
&exoticspets shared her story of the time her parents 'left' her sister at the zoo and that brought back two memories. This is the first.
My husband was away at the time. My son was a seventh grader and my
daughter was in second grade. After church, we decided to head to
Downtown Disney for lunch.
My son was just aggravating his sister in the car. I don't remember
what he was doing but it bordered on just being plain mean. I won't
stand for that ever. No bullying! Really, he had been picking on her a
bit lately and it was just getting under my skin. She adores her big
brother something fierce so I hated seeing him act that way toward her.
I warned him as he were zipping down the freeway. It happened again. I
took the next off-ramp and pulled into a Steak & Shake parking lot.
I was thinking I was just going to give him a piece of my mind when he
said something that really got under my skin (don't remember it now) but
I looked at him and said, "Get out!" I meant business.
He looked at me stunned. I don't usually snap like that and I
definitely don't leave my kiddos alone in parking lots. He just stared
at me. "Get out!" I repeated again. He did. I drove around the building
where he couldn't see me but circled back. No, I wasn't really going to
leave him and he probably stood there a total of 60 seconds but, I know
for at least 30 seconds of it, he really thought I had left. I stopped
in front of him where he stood like a deer in the headlights. "Get in," I
told him.
We got on the freeway and headed home. Not much needed to be said. I
told him I never wanted to see that type of behavior out of him again.
He told his sister sorry. We never made it to Disney but he's been much
nicer to her since that day.
Perhaps tough but as a miltary wife whose husband was gone quite a bit, I liked to nip these things in the bud.
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