07-22-2008, 04:43 PM
The park where I walk at lunchtime has a pond with ducks. There is a mommy duck who had four babies last week. They are ADORABLE!! So tiny and all fuzzy. They follow her all around. Just precious.
This week she was down to three. I figured turtle or hawk.
I go by to visit them today and see a gang of pre-teen kids with their bikes at the edge of the pond. They had chased all of the adult ducks away and were throwing stones after them, but the adults were too far away for them to hit.
Next they spotted the mommy and her babies, who were sitting a little ways down the shore at the edge. They started stoning her and the babies!! They were throwing *large* rocks, trying to hit them.
I was actually afraid of the kids but I started yelling at them anyway. They panicked when I yelled and got on their bikes and rode off.
The bright spot was that they were in such a hurry that one of them fell off his bike and got hurt. I wasn't too sympathetic.
Poor ducklings!
Is it any wonder, really, that I don't like kids? Little terrors.
This week she was down to three. I figured turtle or hawk.
I go by to visit them today and see a gang of pre-teen kids with their bikes at the edge of the pond. They had chased all of the adult ducks away and were throwing stones after them, but the adults were too far away for them to hit.
Next they spotted the mommy and her babies, who were sitting a little ways down the shore at the edge. They started stoning her and the babies!! They were throwing *large* rocks, trying to hit them.
I was actually afraid of the kids but I started yelling at them anyway. They panicked when I yelled and got on their bikes and rode off.
The bright spot was that they were in such a hurry that one of them fell off his bike and got hurt. I wasn't too sympathetic.
Poor ducklings!
Is it any wonder, really, that I don't like kids? Little terrors.
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