[loob job]

Originally Posted by Trailer Fire

I brought my 3 y/o son to the park the other day while my wife had an appointment. It was a nice day out so we went for a walk on the beach, played on the rocks near the river, threw some rocks into the rapids, then went to the playground. After sliding on the slides and being told not to eat sand half a hundred times, he decided he wanted to go on the swings. He still hasn't mastered the art of balance, so using the big boy swing is out of the question unless I want to send him sailing into the noon day sky. So into the toddler swing he goes. I love to play around with my kid, so as he is swinging I pretend he kicks me and fall over, only to get up quickly before he swings back. He's loving every minute of it. Laughing and giggling like crazy.

Anyways, as we were laughing and carrying on and having a time, a group (6 or 7 maybe?) of teenagers moved in to use the big boy swings next to us. Now, I'm 26 years old, and I've always been a little socially anxious, but I didn't give a crap that day, because my little guy was having a blast. I just carried on being ridiculous, pretending they weren't there. After a few minutes, I overheard on of the snot nosed punks ask a few of the other snot nosed punks "Do you think that kid is ######ed? What's wrong with him?" and one of the other kids replied "Look at the guy. He's ######ed too. It's probably ######s in the Park day or something." I was livid. I started to formulate a response without screaming at these kids, or without physically assaulting them. Before I could say or do anything, one of the pretty girls the snot nosed punk was putting the moves on stepped up and chewed the kid out. She said he is a normal little boy having fun with his daddy who is trying to make his little boy giggle. She turned around, grabber her purse, and walked over to me and my son. She apologized for the behavior of her comrades and said my little guy was the cutest little boy she has seen in a long time and to just ignore them because I was being a great dad and that's all that matters.

Is that what youths these days do? They see a father and son having fun and laughing in public and they call them names within earshot? I don't care if they wanted to insult me. I've been called worse by better, but to a 3 y/o? Really? God bless the young lass for saying and doing what she did. If not for her I may have made the news that day, and not for my horrendous playoff "beard".

TL;DR
Curse these street youths these days.

It would have been hard not to go "step brothers" on them. Just watched the movie again and its great at the end when they fly in on the helicopter and kick the crap out of all those kids that were bothering them before.