"You crawl under people's houses, you hear things." -- ALF.
For a long time, I've had this faint fascination with the Victorian culture. Not a real liking; just a sort of curiosity, the kind that makes one read related books etc. Why, right now I am wearing a high-necked shirt with a pattern of tiny roses and with lace down the front, and I like pinning my hair back into a (somewhat) neat bun, and I've also just revisited Jane Eyre, a book about which I have most controversial feelings (yes, dear reader, you are right to sense an upcoming rant at some later moment).
To maintain consistency with the above, and considering the amount of quite uncontrollable young brats a person gets to see these days, I also often find myself adhering to the idea that children should be seen and not heard. This approach, however, does not apply to a situation when a young mother yells the following at her 4-year-old in the street: "I wonder if you're deaf, or if you're simply a **** idiot!"
When witnessing something like this, I strongly feel like shedding my high-necked-shirt sort of decorum, grabbing the woman by the hair and dipping her face-down into the nearest muddy puddle. And it is not the considerations of my own safety that keep me from doing this; it's the thought that the child should not see even this kind of a mother treated in such a manner.
To maintain consistency with the above, and considering the amount of quite uncontrollable young brats a person gets to see these days, I also often find myself adhering to the idea that children should be seen and not heard. This approach, however, does not apply to a situation when a young mother yells the following at her 4-year-old in the street: "I wonder if you're deaf, or if you're simply a **** idiot!"
When witnessing something like this, I strongly feel like shedding my high-necked-shirt sort of decorum, grabbing the woman by the hair and dipping her face-down into the nearest muddy puddle. And it is not the considerations of my own safety that keep me from doing this; it's the thought that the child should not see even this kind of a mother treated in such a manner.