thursday, april 15, 2010

someone's got to be the bad guy....

though i said i wouldn't write about this topic, i am still going to. what it is with parents exposing their sick kids to the healthy ones? last night, we had a playoff hockey game, and one of our best players showed up, with malaria. Ok, he didn't have malaria, but the kid had fever for the past four days, was coughing up a lung and missed school for two days(including the day he showed up for our game.) the kid looked terrible, and, unfortunately, was also playing not-up-to-par...the kid was telling me how he didn't feel well, and how he couldn't play and i asked him why he was there and he said "my mom said i should come." here we go...banji big mouth turns to the mom and says "why is he here?" "well," she responded, "if he wasn't here, we might lose." and i say "ok, but he looks like he is going to die...." this did not bode well with the mom and then the two genius physicians sitting behind me(and they know who they are) were saying "be a man, suck it up, you can do it..." men are so stupid.

so we lost the game,despite the mom's best intentions, but it was close and it was intense and i hope the kid feels better today. so the other moms are listening to me talk to the sick kid's mom, but NO ONE else will say a word-was it because they were on the opposing team? possibly, but if i have to be the one to open up my mouth and say what others are thinking...i will do it, because that is the selfless kind of person i am...

this also happened the week of the infamous power outage, when my other son had a game...we get to tabc, and i see one of his team mates not in uniform.."why aren't you playing" i ask innocently "well, i have been throwing up all day..." great..."who brought you here?" i ask, innocently, again "my dad"...here we go....i go over to the dad and say "dude, do ya think you could take your kid home? none of us have power and i don't need my kids puking in the dark.." he wasn't too pleased with me (surprise surprise)but, he did take his kid home. (now you know that if the mom was there, it would have been an entirely different story...) so after vomit boy left, another parent comes over to me and says "you did the right thing.." that was helpful when i was yelling at vomit boy's dad....

so there you have it....sometimes, i choose to use my lack of editing mechanism to help the greater good and to keep our healthy children from ending up in quarantine.... tomorrow, i will be discussing the joys of costco....

happy thurday