True to form...

[mousme]

Well, at least I'm consistent.

Am home briefly. Then off to do a million more things, then crash ignominiously in bed until morning comes all too soon.

Had lunch with two co-workers, and decided the Parental Units really aren't all that bad.

One of them, the Brainless Romanian Wonder(tm), was beaten so severely by her father that her retina got detached and she will never see properly without laser surgery.

The other is a mother who, despite her pretenses at "not hitting" her children appalled me with her methods of discipline. This involved, when her daughter said "fuck you" to her, pinning her to the floor and filling her mouth with ground pepper.

I ask you, what kind of barbaric behaviour is that?!?!

Blech. People suck. They shouldn't be allowed to have offspring unless they can take care of them properly.

When I told them I'd never been punished by my parents they brushed it off and said if I'd had siblings we'd have been punished anyway and it was only because I was an only child.

Whatever. I was appalled.

Comments

Moral of the story?

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

You should have to take a battery of tests and get a license before you have kids...

Re: Moral of the story?

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

And yet there are still people who should be judged unfit who would weasel/lie/bribe their way through it. And deserving people who would get shafted.

But I'm not a cynic.