Comments | annburlingham: mean old lady in the park

annburlingham

mean old lady in the park

Jun 12, 2008 00:13

that would be me ( Read more... )

village park, ny, mean old ladies, fire-setting, fire, arson, teenagers, mother, warasw

Comments 11

jss1113 June 12 2008, 12:43:28 UTC

I'm with your other respondents thus far. You did the right thing. I'm inclined to suggest you pay your local police a visit to let them know what happened (and show them the on-phone pictures but don't yet give them copies) in case any of the vandals in question or the alleged parent there try to do anything to you or the store. "I am, they did, they said, here's evidence" as a precaution more than anything else.

keyne June 13 2008, 19:29:53 UTC

What he said.

auroramama June 12 2008, 13:40:11 UTC

I don't think you need to worry. It sounds like the kids and the mom may not normally be this stupid, but, having been caught out, didn't know how to back down, and ended up defending their stupidity as though they were proud of it. The mom in particular seems to be under the impression that as long as she claims to have the moral high ground, she must be in the right: indignation as substitute for doing the right thing. Being in a blazing rage is more comfortable (for many of us, anyway) than being embarrassed or scared (of her kids getting into deserved trouble ( ... )

aquaeri June 16 2008, 06:11:06 UTC

I think you did the right thing.

I'm not remotely surprised that either the kids tried to pretend what they did was okay, or that their mother did. Cognitive dissonance, and they didn't know how to recover gracefully. If mum had found out without your help, she'd have been heaping into the kids I'm sure.