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Disgusted and uncomfortable? (a rant, abuse mentioned and more...)
This is just kind of a rant, so I do apologize...
A while back, I'd guess well over 6 months ago, I was out and about with a girl friend at the mall. This is the friend with the little boy born the same day as A, so it was her and I, along with her baby, A and B. We're walking through the mall and made our way out the door to have a quick smoke. We're standing out there, and I'm approached by a girl who looks to be about my age. She calls my name. I look at her, and then recognize her. She's a girl I grew up with. They lived on the corner house on my parents' block. She was a year younger than me, and she had a brother 2 years older than me. They also had 3 noisy chihuahuas (and I remember one was REALLY fat and was always my favorite - just pointless info) Well, we're all standing outside, she bums a smoke and says she's living not too far from this particular mall, was living in another city 3 hours away until fairly recently when she came back home, and she has 2 little girls that the dad has full custody of (IMO, seems like a good idea after all this...) She kind of looked like hell. Almost like druggie/alcoholic hell, but she said she was doing a lot better now, wanted to stay here for a while to straighten up and get herself in order and then try and get visitation with her girls, which, IIRC, were something like 2 and 3 years of age. She then asked me if I've heard about her brother lately. Back when we were all around the 11-12 age, I know her brother had like a schoolboy crush on me (for lack of a better word?) but at that age, I found him more creepy - considering he was a boy and all AND he was about 2 years older than me. We were all friends, since we grew up in the same neighbourhood, basically as neighbours. She said that her brother was in some trouble here in the city. She asked if I heard about it, which I really hadn't heard much about, but didn't admit to reading a small article in the paper a while before this. Something about a baby died and he was being accused of it, and she was saying it's all a horrible mistake. A 'tragic accident' was a word she had used, and I remember that clearly still. I do remember reading something about it before, and I remember calling my mom to ask her about it, asked her if it was the same guy from down the block, once I read the name. My mom didn't know, but she assumed there weren't many people with that particular name (not a VERY common name like John Smith or something) Now there's a trial for this guy. I guess it's been going on for a little while. Papers have had articles on this stuff for the last couple weeks or so, and every few days I'll see it in the paper and read it. The story (his story) was that he was babysitting his then girlfriend's daughter, who was something like 14ish months old. The mom (gf) was going to work, her 6 year old daughter was in school, and this guy offered to babysit the baby. He then says that he called 911 when the baby fell down the stairs and basically became unresponsive, just staring and having trouble breathing. That was his version of what happened, and I guess the baby died the next day due to injuries - I think she went into surgery that day, next day she was said to be brain dead and pulled off life support. That story alone made me sick, as obviously there was this feeling of something's not right, this story just doesn't seem to sit well with me. Not long ago, within the last week, I guess, my dumbass brother made a real stupid comment to me. He said something like, "Ha! I remember Dave! Good thing you didn't date!" and that kind of made me fairly uncomfortable. Haven't seen this guy since I was about 17 or 18 or so, so it has been quite a few years, but when I did see him, we did talk a bit and all that. Now, just this morning, I read in the paper that his story has changed from the baby falling down the stairs to the baby began crying and screaming, he threw toys at her, threw her on the sofa, shoved a coffee table on wheels at her when she fell off the table and, basically, abused the baby to the extent that it was in. It just makes me sick. I almost feel like I can't believe I knew this guy, even though it was years ago that I did know him. And my smart brother has to make a disgusting comment, which I know he didn't intend to make it come out like that, but really... I just needed to rant and rave a little, since the article I read just this morning made me want to vomit. |
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Disgusted and uncomfortable? (a rant, abuse mentioned and more...)
Kat wrote: This is just kind of a rant, so I do apologize... A while back, I'd guess well over 6 months ago, I was out and about with a girl friend at the mall. This is the friend with the little boy born the same day as A, so it was her and I, along with her baby, A and B. We're walking through the mall and made our way out the door to have a quick smoke. We're standing out there, and I'm approached by a girl who looks to be about my age. She calls my name. I look at her, and then recognize her. She's a girl I grew up with. They lived on the corner house on my parents' block. She was a year younger than me, and she had a brother 2 years older than me. They also had 3 noisy chihuahuas (and I remember one was REALLY fat and was always my favorite - just pointless info) Well, we're all standing outside, she bums a smoke and says she's living not too far from this particular mall, was living in another city 3 hours away until fairly recently when she came back home, and she has 2 little girls that the dad has full custody of (IMO, seems like a good idea after all this...) She kind of looked like hell. Almost like druggie/alcoholic hell, but she said she was doing a lot better now, wanted to stay here for a while to straighten up and get herself in order and then try and get visitation with her girls, which, IIRC, were something like 2 and 3 years of age. She then asked me if I've heard about her brother lately. Back when we were all around the 11-12 age, I know her brother had like a schoolboy crush on me (for lack of a better word?) but at that age, I found him more creepy - considering he was a boy and all AND he was about 2 years older than me. We were all friends, since we grew up in the same neighbourhood, basically as neighbours. She said that her brother was in some trouble here in the city. She asked if I heard about it, which I really hadn't heard much about, but didn't admit to reading a small article in the paper a while before this. Something about a baby died and he was being accused of it, and she was saying it's all a horrible mistake. A 'tragic accident' was a word she had used, and I remember that clearly still. I do remember reading something about it before, and I remember calling my mom to ask her about it, asked her if it was the same guy from down the block, once I read the name. My mom didn't know, but she assumed there weren't many people with that particular name (not a VERY common name like John Smith or something) Now there's a trial for this guy. I guess it's been going on for a little while. Papers have had articles on this stuff for the last couple weeks or so, and every few days I'll see it in the paper and read it. The story (his story) was that he was babysitting his then girlfriend's daughter, who was something like 14ish months old. The mom (gf) was going to work, her 6 year old daughter was in school, and this guy offered to babysit the baby. He then says that he called 911 when the baby fell down the stairs and basically became unresponsive, just staring and having trouble breathing. That was his version of what happened, and I guess the baby died the next day due to injuries - I think she went into surgery that day, next day she was said to be brain dead and pulled off life support. That story alone made me sick, as obviously there was this feeling of something's not right, this story just doesn't seem to sit well with me. Not long ago, within the last week, I guess, my dumbass brother made a real stupid comment to me. He said something like, "Ha! I remember Dave! Good thing you didn't date!" and that kind of made me fairly uncomfortable. Haven't seen this guy since I was about 17 or 18 or so, so it has been quite a few years, but when I did see him, we did talk a bit and all that. Now, just this morning, I read in the paper that his story has changed from the baby falling down the stairs to the baby began crying and screaming, he threw toys at her, threw her on the sofa, shoved a coffee table on wheels at her when she fell off the table and, basically, abused the baby to the extent that it was in. It just makes me sick. I almost feel like I can't believe I knew this guy, even though it was years ago that I did know him. And my smart brother has to make a disgusting comment, which I know he didn't intend to make it come out like that, but really... I just needed to rant and rave a little, since the article I read just this morning made me want to vomit. Kat, cup a tea ------------ here, relax,take a deep breath, I know it is upsetting to hear of this type of horror in the world, I'm sorry it hits home for ya. Sooo....tell me what are you going to do with the rest of your day? Let's see , my day will go like this..... finish typing to you, bring Mari a cup of coffee and wake her up to get ready for work , Go p/u my grand daughter for her overnight stay with us this week, take my daughter and her daughter to the WIC office.Looks like we will be dodging rain drops today ;-) stop at the store on the way home from WIC and p/u stuff for apple pies cause I forgot to earlier in the week, and finally make those pies with my granddaughter! She is not even three yet and she just loves to help her nanny bebe in the kitchen , there is nothin more fun then getting her hands on a stick of butter and squishing it between her fingers g a chip off her gramma's block! I hope you have a nice day ....I am planning to! Bev |
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Disgusted and uncomfortable? (a rant, abuse mentioned and more...)
"Bev" wrote in message ps.com... Kat wrote: This is just kind of a rant, so I do apologize... A while back, I'd guess well over 6 months ago, I was out and about with a girl friend at the mall. This is the friend with the little boy born the same day as A, so it was her and I, along with her baby, A and B. We're walking through the mall and made our way out the door to have a quick smoke. We're standing out there, and I'm approached by a girl who looks to be about my age. She calls my name. I look at her, and then recognize her. She's a girl I grew up with. They lived on the corner house on my parents' block. She was a year younger than me, and she had a brother 2 years older than me. They also had 3 noisy chihuahuas (and I remember one was REALLY fat and was always my favorite - just pointless info) Well, we're all standing outside, she bums a smoke and says she's living not too far from this particular mall, was living in another city 3 hours away until fairly recently when she came back home, and she has 2 little girls that the dad has full custody of (IMO, seems like a good idea after all this...) She kind of looked like hell. Almost like druggie/alcoholic hell, but she said she was doing a lot better now, wanted to stay here for a while to straighten up and get herself in order and then try and get visitation with her girls, which, IIRC, were something like 2 and 3 years of age. She then asked me if I've heard about her brother lately. Back when we were all around the 11-12 age, I know her brother had like a schoolboy crush on me (for lack of a better word?) but at that age, I found him more creepy - considering he was a boy and all AND he was about 2 years older than me. We were all friends, since we grew up in the same neighbourhood, basically as neighbours. She said that her brother was in some trouble here in the city. She asked if I heard about it, which I really hadn't heard much about, but didn't admit to reading a small article in the paper a while before this. Something about a baby died and he was being accused of it, and she was saying it's all a horrible mistake. A 'tragic accident' was a word she had used, and I remember that clearly still. I do remember reading something about it before, and I remember calling my mom to ask her about it, asked her if it was the same guy from down the block, once I read the name. My mom didn't know, but she assumed there weren't many people with that particular name (not a VERY common name like John Smith or something) Now there's a trial for this guy. I guess it's been going on for a little while. Papers have had articles on this stuff for the last couple weeks or so, and every few days I'll see it in the paper and read it. The story (his story) was that he was babysitting his then girlfriend's daughter, who was something like 14ish months old. The mom (gf) was going to work, her 6 year old daughter was in school, and this guy offered to babysit the baby. He then says that he called 911 when the baby fell down the stairs and basically became unresponsive, just staring and having trouble breathing. That was his version of what happened, and I guess the baby died the next day due to injuries - I think she went into surgery that day, next day she was said to be brain dead and pulled off life support. That story alone made me sick, as obviously there was this feeling of something's not right, this story just doesn't seem to sit well with me. Not long ago, within the last week, I guess, my dumbass brother made a real stupid comment to me. He said something like, "Ha! I remember Dave! Good thing you didn't date!" and that kind of made me fairly uncomfortable. Haven't seen this guy since I was about 17 or 18 or so, so it has been quite a few years, but when I did see him, we did talk a bit and all that. Now, just this morning, I read in the paper that his story has changed from the baby falling down the stairs to the baby began crying and screaming, he threw toys at her, threw her on the sofa, shoved a coffee table on wheels at her when she fell off the table and, basically, abused the baby to the extent that it was in. It just makes me sick. I almost feel like I can't believe I knew this guy, even though it was years ago that I did know him. And my smart brother has to make a disgusting comment, which I know he didn't intend to make it come out like that, but really... I just needed to rant and rave a little, since the article I read just this morning made me want to vomit. Kat, cup a tea ------------ here, relax,take a deep breath, I know it is upsetting to hear of this type of horror in the world, I'm sorry it hits home for ya. Sooo....tell me what are you going to do with the rest of your day? Let's see , my day will go like this..... finish typing to you, bring Mari a cup of coffee and wake her up to get ready for work , Go p/u my grand daughter for her overnight stay with us this week, take my daughter and her daughter to the WIC office.Looks like we will be dodging rain drops today ;-) stop at the store on the way home from WIC and p/u stuff for apple pies cause I forgot to earlier in the week, and finally make those pies with my granddaughter! She is not even three yet and she just loves to help her nanny bebe in the kitchen , there is nothin more fun then getting her hands on a stick of butter and squishing it between her fingers g a chip off her gramma's block! I hope you have a nice day ....I am planning to! Bev Hey, when is the pie going to be done??? I could go for some warm apple pie! T |
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Disgusted and uncomfortable? (a rant, abuse mentioned and more...)
Tiffany wrote: "Bev" wrote in message ps.com... Kat wrote: This is just kind of a rant, so I do apologize... A while back, I'd guess well over 6 months ago, I was out and about with a girl friend at the mall. This is the friend with the little boy born the same day as A, so it was her and I, along with her baby, A and B. We're walking through the mall and made our way out the door to have a quick smoke. We're standing out there, and I'm approached by a girl who looks to be about my age. She calls my name. I look at her, and then recognize her. She's a girl I grew up with. They lived on the corner house on my parents' block. She was a year younger than me, and she had a brother 2 years older than me. They also had 3 noisy chihuahuas (and I remember one was REALLY fat and was always my favorite - just pointless info) Well, we're all standing outside, she bums a smoke and says she's living not too far from this particular mall, was living in another city 3 hours away until fairly recently when she came back home, and she has 2 little girls that the dad has full custody of (IMO, seems like a good idea after all this...) She kind of looked like hell. Almost like druggie/alcoholic hell, but she said she was doing a lot better now, wanted to stay here for a while to straighten up and get herself in order and then try and get visitation with her girls, which, IIRC, were something like 2 and 3 years of age. She then asked me if I've heard about her brother lately. Back when we were all around the 11-12 age, I know her brother had like a schoolboy crush on me (for lack of a better word?) but at that age, I found him more creepy - considering he was a boy and all AND he was about 2 years older than me. We were all friends, since we grew up in the same neighbourhood, basically as neighbours. She said that her brother was in some trouble here in the city. She asked if I heard about it, which I really hadn't heard much about, but didn't admit to reading a small article in the paper a while before this. Something about a baby died and he was being accused of it, and she was saying it's all a horrible mistake. A 'tragic accident' was a word she had used, and I remember that clearly still. I do remember reading something about it before, and I remember calling my mom to ask her about it, asked her if it was the same guy from down the block, once I read the name. My mom didn't know, but she assumed there weren't many people with that particular name (not a VERY common name like John Smith or something) Now there's a trial for this guy. I guess it's been going on for a little while. Papers have had articles on this stuff for the last couple weeks or so, and every few days I'll see it in the paper and read it. The story (his story) was that he was babysitting his then girlfriend's daughter, who was something like 14ish months old. The mom (gf) was going to work, her 6 year old daughter was in school, and this guy offered to babysit the baby. He then says that he called 911 when the baby fell down the stairs and basically became unresponsive, just staring and having trouble breathing. That was his version of what happened, and I guess the baby died the next day due to injuries - I think she went into surgery that day, next day she was said to be brain dead and pulled off life support. That story alone made me sick, as obviously there was this feeling of something's not right, this story just doesn't seem to sit well with me. Not long ago, within the last week, I guess, my dumbass brother made a real stupid comment to me. He said something like, "Ha! I remember Dave! Good thing you didn't date!" and that kind of made me fairly uncomfortable. Haven't seen this guy since I was about 17 or 18 or so, so it has been quite a few years, but when I did see him, we did talk a bit and all that. Now, just this morning, I read in the paper that his story has changed from the baby falling down the stairs to the baby began crying and screaming, he threw toys at her, threw her on the sofa, shoved a coffee table on wheels at her when she fell off the table and, basically, abused the baby to the extent that it was in. It just makes me sick. I almost feel like I can't believe I knew this guy, even though it was years ago that I did know him. And my smart brother has to make a disgusting comment, which I know he didn't intend to make it come out like that, but really... I just needed to rant and rave a little, since the article I read just this morning made me want to vomit. Kat, cup a tea ------------ here, relax,take a deep breath, I know it is upsetting to hear of this type of horror in the world, I'm sorry it hits home for ya. Sooo....tell me what are you going to do with the rest of your day? Let's see , my day will go like this..... finish typing to you, bring Mari a cup of coffee and wake her up to get ready for work , Go p/u my grand daughter for her overnight stay with us this week, take my daughter and her daughter to the WIC office.Looks like we will be dodging rain drops today ;-) stop at the store on the way home from WIC and p/u stuff for apple pies cause I forgot to earlier in the week, and finally make those pies with my granddaughter! She is not even three yet and she just loves to help her nanny bebe in the kitchen , there is nothin more fun then getting her hands on a stick of butter and squishing it between her fingers g a chip off her gramma's block! I hope you have a nice day ....I am planning to! Bev Hey, when is the pie going to be done??? I could go for some warm apple pie! T o.k. o.k. relax I made a mistake about our schedule today ! Seems the WIC appt. is tomorrow and so today we just took a joy ride out to the obstetricians office for the letter of verification that S is having a baby, so she can get the WIC for herself and the new baby now also. So we decided to do the apple pies tomorrow cause it is already dinner starting time. So Jaime, seasoned the chicken with lemon pepper spices, as well as the table , the floor, and a few CD's I had on the kitchen table because everything is more enjoyable with a little music playing ;-) and the chicken is now in the oven, in a little bit we will begin the Fetuccinni Alfredo and the sweet peas for our vegetable! So no warm apple pies till tomorrow........and when will you arrive for yours? smile p.s. don't forget the vanilla ice cream ! Bev |
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Disgusted and uncomfortable? (a rant, abuse mentioned and more...)
"Bev" wrote in message ups.com... Tiffany wrote: "Bev" wrote in message ps.com... Kat wrote: This is just kind of a rant, so I do apologize... A while back, I'd guess well over 6 months ago, I was out and about with a girl friend at the mall. This is the friend with the little boy born the same day as A, so it was her and I, along with her baby, A and B. We're walking through the mall and made our way out the door to have a quick smoke. We're standing out there, and I'm approached by a girl who looks to be about my age. She calls my name. I look at her, and then recognize her. She's a girl I grew up with. They lived on the corner house on my parents' block. She was a year younger than me, and she had a brother 2 years older than me. They also had 3 noisy chihuahuas (and I remember one was REALLY fat and was always my favorite - just pointless info) Well, we're all standing outside, she bums a smoke and says she's living not too far from this particular mall, was living in another city 3 hours away until fairly recently when she came back home, and she has 2 little girls that the dad has full custody of (IMO, seems like a good idea after all this...) She kind of looked like hell. Almost like druggie/alcoholic hell, but she said she was doing a lot better now, wanted to stay here for a while to straighten up and get herself in order and then try and get visitation with her girls, which, IIRC, were something like 2 and 3 years of age. She then asked me if I've heard about her brother lately. Back when we were all around the 11-12 age, I know her brother had like a schoolboy crush on me (for lack of a better word?) but at that age, I found him more creepy - considering he was a boy and all AND he was about 2 years older than me. We were all friends, since we grew up in the same neighbourhood, basically as neighbours. She said that her brother was in some trouble here in the city. She asked if I heard about it, which I really hadn't heard much about, but didn't admit to reading a small article in the paper a while before this. Something about a baby died and he was being accused of it, and she was saying it's all a horrible mistake. A 'tragic accident' was a word she had used, and I remember that clearly still. I do remember reading something about it before, and I remember calling my mom to ask her about it, asked her if it was the same guy from down the block, once I read the name. My mom didn't know, but she assumed there weren't many people with that particular name (not a VERY common name like John Smith or something) Now there's a trial for this guy. I guess it's been going on for a little while. Papers have had articles on this stuff for the last couple weeks or so, and every few days I'll see it in the paper and read it. The story (his story) was that he was babysitting his then girlfriend's daughter, who was something like 14ish months old. The mom (gf) was going to work, her 6 year old daughter was in school, and this guy offered to babysit the baby. He then says that he called 911 when the baby fell down the stairs and basically became unresponsive, just staring and having trouble breathing. That was his version of what happened, and I guess the baby died the next day due to injuries - I think she went into surgery that day, next day she was said to be brain dead and pulled off life support. That story alone made me sick, as obviously there was this feeling of something's not right, this story just doesn't seem to sit well with me. Not long ago, within the last week, I guess, my dumbass brother made a real stupid comment to me. He said something like, "Ha! I remember Dave! Good thing you didn't date!" and that kind of made me fairly uncomfortable. Haven't seen this guy since I was about 17 or 18 or so, so it has been quite a few years, but when I did see him, we did talk a bit and all that. Now, just this morning, I read in the paper that his story has changed from the baby falling down the stairs to the baby began crying and screaming, he threw toys at her, threw her on the sofa, shoved a coffee table on wheels at her when she fell off the table and, basically, abused the baby to the extent that it was in. It just makes me sick. I almost feel like I can't believe I knew this guy, even though it was years ago that I did know him. And my smart brother has to make a disgusting comment, which I know he didn't intend to make it come out like that, but really... I just needed to rant and rave a little, since the article I read just this morning made me want to vomit. Kat, cup a tea ------------ here, relax,take a deep breath, I know it is upsetting to hear of this type of horror in the world, I'm sorry it hits home for ya. Sooo....tell me what are you going to do with the rest of your day? Let's see , my day will go like this..... finish typing to you, bring Mari a cup of coffee and wake her up to get ready for work , Go p/u my grand daughter for her overnight stay with us this week, take my daughter and her daughter to the WIC office.Looks like we will be dodging rain drops today ;-) stop at the store on the way home from WIC and p/u stuff for apple pies cause I forgot to earlier in the week, and finally make those pies with my granddaughter! She is not even three yet and she just loves to help her nanny bebe in the kitchen , there is nothin more fun then getting her hands on a stick of butter and squishing it between her fingers g a chip off her gramma's block! I hope you have a nice day ....I am planning to! Bev Hey, when is the pie going to be done??? I could go for some warm apple pie! T o.k. o.k. relax I made a mistake about our schedule today ! Seems the WIC appt. is tomorrow and so today we just took a joy ride out to the obstetricians office for the letter of verification that S is having a baby, so she can get the WIC for herself and the new baby now also. So we decided to do the apple pies tomorrow cause it is already dinner starting time. So Jaime, seasoned the chicken with lemon pepper spices, as well as the table , the floor, and a few CD's I had on the kitchen table because everything is more enjoyable with a little music playing ;-) and the chicken is now in the oven, in a little bit we will begin the Fetuccinni Alfredo and the sweet peas for our vegetable! So no warm apple pies till tomorrow........and when will you arrive for yours? smile p.s. don't forget the vanilla ice cream ! Bev I am getting my pie fix in an hour. I made a pumpkin pie! |
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