Ah Elitches
So I went to Elitch's today with Claire, mom, claire's friend, and Joooooordan, and had such an awesome time. I love Elitch's (Elitches?), but I really miss the old one, with the sweet log ride, and the gum tree, and the carousel.... Apparently now they have a Panda Express, which is unnecessarily expensive, and though tasty, still a little strange to find there. I rode the twister II twice, and after the tea cups I sort of regretted the combo of wine and tequila from the night before...
So, something also really ticked me off about today, and I'm going to whine about it here, because that's totally what LJ is for. When we got to the park there was a pretty big group of girls Claires age, and one of them started saying yelling, "Ewww Claire! Ewww Claire!" and Claire looked and the girl and said, "Hey______! ... What? Why are you saying that?" Or something like that... I didn't immediately notice any sort of animosity, I thought she was maybe friends with them.. Any way, I asked her what that was abot and she said she didn't know but that one girl was always sort of saying stuff like that to her. : ( How do you explain to a 10 year old that sometimes girls are just mean? And that she probably wouldn't want to be friends with them anyway because they're probably not nice to each other too, when they're probably the popular girls in the class? Uggh. I had kind of forgotten the whole thing had happened until we were in line for the "Ghost Blasters" ride (which was really lame) and the same girl came up and started saying it again, this time Claire and her friend were clearly with us, so it's totally inappropriate to say anything like that. I looked at the girl and in my stearnest, grumpiest voice said, "That is enough. Thank you." Joooooordan was there too, and totally saw the look of total shame, or embarassment or disappointment or something. Whatever I was it was awesome. I crushed a 10 year old. I feel bad now though, like I fought claire's battle, or like now she'll get teased more because I couldn't keep my mouth shut. Uggh!! It was just so annoying! I know I wasn't exactly nice to everyone in elementary school (there was one girl who wound up switching to a different class because we were so mean) but I cannot recall ever being mean to someone outside of school or like, the rec center, especially in front of their family.
Is it pathetic that I feel totally awesome every time I think of the look on that girl's face though? Hahaha...
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