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Edited on Thu Dec-22-05 03:28 PM by tonkatoy57
all wrapped up in one bundle.
About six months ago I was on my way home on the Metro Bus. There was a young girl of about 17 or 18 with two small children. Well, one was a small child and the other was an infant. As children that age will do, they were cranky and crying and being very demanding. The mother kept screaming at them to shut up; not just screaming, but cursing and saying the most vile things to her children. I can't count the times she told them to, "shut your fucking mouth", and, "goddammit, I'll beat the shit out of you". After a while, she started smacking the toddler in the back of the head every time the little girl cried or whined. Of course, that just made it worse. Between the cursing, the slapping, and the arm jerking I thought I was going to puke on my shoes and I couldn't imagine what those two little children must have felt like.
To my everlasting shame I didn't say a word, nor did anyone on the bus. We all just sat there like bumps on a log letting and ignorant, stressed out, out of control teen aged mother abuse her children.
I think about it every once and a while and wonder what has become of that dysfunctional little family.
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