this evening, as i was sitting down to enjoy my traditional “rice with junk on it” dinner, and with the sun slowly setting outside my window, i heard an altercation on the street in front of my house.<\/p>\n
through glass, and over the sound of a tv flipping channels, i think<\/em> i heard someone say “and don’t you dare tell your mom i said that” or something to that effect.<\/p>\n so, i poked my nose out the front door, and found a 20-something contractor who was paving a neighbor’s driveway all afternoon shouting down a 7- or 8-year old kid on a bike. and when he noticed i’d noticed, he got relatively quiet and the kid made his escape.<\/p>\n a short while later, i decided to pick up the papers and check the mail and such – an excuse that would bring me within 30 or so feet of the scene of the altercation. the guy approached me, and asked it if was my kid (it’s not – and i’ve only seen him on the street and i’m not entirely sure which house he belongs to – which is very different than my experience as an 8-year-old, but i digress).<\/p>\n the guy then claimed the kid was out of control and had used inappropriate language with him… now, here’s where the tarnish on my armor shows up. i smelled bullshit, but i didn’t call bullshit. i just said i didn’t know the kid, and only heard the noise.<\/p>\n i don’t know which door to knock on to find out the kid’s side of the story, but nobody has any business dressing down an 8-year old – and if i did hear what i think i heard – telling them not to tell their parents – that’s way over the line.<\/p>\n but i folded at “you’re being watched, don’t do anything stupid.” this was certainly the easy way out. the kid’s safe, the contractors are gone. but was any harm done? i dunno. and i feel like i should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" this evening, as i was sitting down to enjoy my traditional “rice with junk on it” dinner, and with the sun slowly setting outside my window, i heard an altercation on the street in front of my house. through glass, and over the sound of a tv flipping channels, i think i heard someone say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}