I was going to put this post under my personal facebook page as a rant, but when I went to post it, I thought about all the trucker Mums out there that could use this as a warning.
There are a lot of miserable people out in the world, sometimes we call them "bullies", sometimes we call them a lot of other horrible words that I will not say here, but never the less they describe them perfectly. These people are truly miserable and like nothing more than to ruin someone else's day. I met a lady like this, this morning. Or more specifically I was confronted by her.
After taking a hot shower this morning, my husband and I went to get a couple of subway sandwiches to feed us for the day. While we both ordered, I do what I normally do. I let Junior run free around the truckstop, keeping an eye on him and making sure that he stayed in view. As a trucking child, Junior does not often get a lot of time to run around, so when an opportunity arises to do - I let him. After I finished ordering, I walked over to join junior at the fridge section. He had been admiring a juice bottle with Thomas on top. I said to him, "Not today sweety," and grabbed a bottle of milk for our breakfast.
Suddenly, as if from nowhere this big lady who was at least two inches taller than me if not taller came up to me and said, "Your a horrible mother. Someone could have taken your child. You abandoned him. If you don't stop him from running around I will call CPS on you."
I frowned, "And said, thanks for the warning, but we are doing just fine thank you."
I started to walk away. I have a bad history with bullies and a fist fight with someone taller and larger than me was the last thing I wanted.
"There are camera's everywhere that shows you abandoned your child. Don't you know that someone could have taken him. You weren't watching him. I'm going to call CPS on you."
I walked away down the nearest aisle ignoring her. She circles around and appears at the end of the aisle and gets right up in my face, "I'm going to call the cops on you."
I walk away a second time and she circles round again and gets in my face and threatens me. Realizing that this might get messy, I call James over from finishing up at subway.
"Honey, I think we have a problem." I point at the lady.
She starts accusing James of being a bad parent and of letting me be a bad parent and threatens again to call the cops.
"Go ahead," he says, "Just leave my family alone."
I walk over to one of the truck stop employees nearby and ask,"Is she a regular here? Because she is harassing us."
The employee walks up to the counter, starts to talk to the manager and the lady disappears.
I have gone for 2 years without an incident like this. Most of the people out on the road are busy minding their own business and many of the parents with kids (in cars or trucks) will let their kids run around too. Most of the truckers out on the road are good and decent people, and I would trust my 2 year old son to be around most of them. I know for a fact that if anyone tried to take my little one away from me, he would scream and those same truck drivers would beat the crap out of that person.
Why did I post this story up here on a public website? Trucker Mums need to be wary of people like this, they can potentially do a lot of damage to good families. They are out there everywhere and at some point you have to decide between being the parent your child needs you to be and the parent everyone else wants you to be. I wish you luck and may you never come across this horrible lady or anyone like her.
There are a lot of miserable people out in the world, sometimes we call them "bullies", sometimes we call them a lot of other horrible words that I will not say here, but never the less they describe them perfectly. These people are truly miserable and like nothing more than to ruin someone else's day. I met a lady like this, this morning. Or more specifically I was confronted by her.
After taking a hot shower this morning, my husband and I went to get a couple of subway sandwiches to feed us for the day. While we both ordered, I do what I normally do. I let Junior run free around the truckstop, keeping an eye on him and making sure that he stayed in view. As a trucking child, Junior does not often get a lot of time to run around, so when an opportunity arises to do - I let him. After I finished ordering, I walked over to join junior at the fridge section. He had been admiring a juice bottle with Thomas on top. I said to him, "Not today sweety," and grabbed a bottle of milk for our breakfast.
Suddenly, as if from nowhere this big lady who was at least two inches taller than me if not taller came up to me and said, "Your a horrible mother. Someone could have taken your child. You abandoned him. If you don't stop him from running around I will call CPS on you."
I frowned, "And said, thanks for the warning, but we are doing just fine thank you."
I started to walk away. I have a bad history with bullies and a fist fight with someone taller and larger than me was the last thing I wanted.
"There are camera's everywhere that shows you abandoned your child. Don't you know that someone could have taken him. You weren't watching him. I'm going to call CPS on you."
I walked away down the nearest aisle ignoring her. She circles around and appears at the end of the aisle and gets right up in my face, "I'm going to call the cops on you."
I walk away a second time and she circles round again and gets in my face and threatens me. Realizing that this might get messy, I call James over from finishing up at subway.
"Honey, I think we have a problem." I point at the lady.
She starts accusing James of being a bad parent and of letting me be a bad parent and threatens again to call the cops.
"Go ahead," he says, "Just leave my family alone."
I walk over to one of the truck stop employees nearby and ask,"Is she a regular here? Because she is harassing us."
The employee walks up to the counter, starts to talk to the manager and the lady disappears.
I have gone for 2 years without an incident like this. Most of the people out on the road are busy minding their own business and many of the parents with kids (in cars or trucks) will let their kids run around too. Most of the truckers out on the road are good and decent people, and I would trust my 2 year old son to be around most of them. I know for a fact that if anyone tried to take my little one away from me, he would scream and those same truck drivers would beat the crap out of that person.
Why did I post this story up here on a public website? Trucker Mums need to be wary of people like this, they can potentially do a lot of damage to good families. They are out there everywhere and at some point you have to decide between being the parent your child needs you to be and the parent everyone else wants you to be. I wish you luck and may you never come across this horrible lady or anyone like her.