Well, sweetheart, it?s been a real bitch of a weekend and I don?t feel much better this morning. Janet called late last night. I was still up ? it was almost midnight and I talked to her awhile. I told her what happened. She didn?t know about all that other stuff that happened?that the house was egged, that the kids catcall to Billy from the street and make fun of him, we get hangup calls and knock-and-runs and so on. She felt that I should just forget about it?and I will, eventually.
She also said that Mrs. D wasn?t telling every person and I said oh, yes, she was, and then Janet said there?d been talk in the neighborhood that I should know about ? this family that leaves directly across from Janet, the Dunns, have two or three boys. Mr. Dunn claims that he caught Billy trying to take a skateboard off his deck.
I was furious. First of all, I don?t know if it?s true or not. Billy is not entirely truthful and he can be spiteful when he?s angry (which is why I think he took David?s skateboard apart to use the parts). Yet at the same time I know he?s not been going out with these kids like he used to and so I?m wondering, WHEN did this happen? And why is everyone talking about it behind my back and not to my face?
Janet began to tell me that I need to impress on Billy how serious it is that he took the stuff off David?s skateboard and I became resentful and said I DID that. I also told Billy it was a STUPID thing to do in addition to being wrong because now, instead of being able to tell this bastard?s mother, well, your kid participates with other kids in throwing skateboards against my door I have to defend my son, the neighborhood thief.
This is just great. Well, YOU don?t have to worry about it, do you? This is just MY problem now.
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You know, kid problems are magnified when there is only ONE parent to deal
with all the bullshit!
My son has never fit in. He's very bright and also very obnoxious. He is not
athletic. When kids make fun of him for being overweight he comes back with
a put down that would make Einstein proud but the kids are offended because
(a) they realize they've been insulted and (b) worse, they don't understand
the insult because they don't understand the words. So. They throw eggs at
the house, play prank phone calls, knock and run, stupid crap like that.
About 10 days ago, we were all watching TV (it had just gotten dark) when
BAM! there went something at the door that scared us all half to death. Of
course by the time we got to the door all we saw was white tee shirts and
the backs of heads running away. And there was a skateboard...someone threw
a skateboard at our door.
I said, fine, let the coward come claim it if he wants it and brought the
damn thing inside where it became part of the dining room furniture (I
forgot about it).
And then yesterday, Mrs. Irate Mom is at my door with her kid and she is
accusing my son of stealing the skateboard. So I said, no, he did not it was
MY idea to bring it inside because someone threw it against our door. She
got self righteous and said, "Oh yeah? Then why are the wheels on YOUR son's
skateboard?"
I looked at Billy, who at least had the good grace to look mortified.
"WHAT?"
He says, "Well, Mom, I just thought that so much time went by no one was
ever going to come get it."
I told him it didn't give him the right to strip the skateboard; it didn't
belong to us. So he returned the skateboard, intact, to the brat and I told
Mrs. Irate Mom that while I was sorry Billy had taken it apart I was pretty
sick and tired of the harassment.
She said coldly, "I have NO idea what you're going through."
That's right, bitch.
She then proceeded to go door to door and stop neighbors to warn them to
watch out for their kids' stuff. If I'd had a bat I would be in jail now.
Later that night the little monsters congregated to catcall to my son. I
called the cops. F*ck em. I don't know what I more more angry about--these
frigging kids, what my son did, or my husband dying and leaving me ALONE to
deal with this shit!!!!