And for once it wasn’t with a politician, or one of my children.
Let me set the scene. It’s about 7 in the evening, glorious day, and I’m about to drag 4 children around lidl. I park the car, and as we start getting out, a football bounces past, knocking into the car door. It’s pursued by a medium sized boy on a scooter. Instead of picking it up, he kicks it around the carpark and scoots after it, narrowly missing Big as she lifts Smallest into a trolley while I’m by the car wrapping Tigerboy. Small shouts at the boy, who then disappears down the steps into the neighbouring park.
A few moments later and sure enough the football reappears over the wall and bounces past my car again.
I see red. Still fastening the wrap sound my waist I head over to the wall and proceed to give the bunch of teenagers at the other side a piece of my mind, asking them what they think they are doing and how they would feel if the ball had hit the toddler or baby that they couldn’t see.
The temptation to keep the ball that Big had retrieved was quite high, but instead I had her throw it back and we headed into the store to a virtual round of applause from others in the carpark.
So, did I overstep the boundaries? Would you have done the same? Or would you have just quietly disappeared the ball without confrontation?
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