by
phinebooty
@ Wednesday, 27. Sep, 2006 - 11:45:10
I wonder what constitutes child abuse?This morning I witnessed a woman pinch her 3yr old's ear so hard it was red for the 30mins journey. The child didn't scream but i looked on horrified, the older sister saw me and made her mother remove her her hand
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I have been on the same bus with this family before, the little boy is too old for the push chair really, perhaps he has some mental problems, nothing severe, it just seems so to me. In any case, he didn't want to sit on the too small push chair and wanted to sit with his sister on a proper seat instead which he did. But kids being kids, he wanted to play and the mother wanted him to be still. He started making noise(not screams or anything) and she pinched him so hard I nearly shouted at her. I think i was just too shocked
. Maybe the kids are too much for her, maybe her husband beats her I don't know. The little boy then started pulling the older brother's hair(i guess he learned from the mother) and at one point he fell off the chair and landed on his head! The mother was deep in Arabic conversation with another woman, who incidentally asked why the kid's ear was soo red. I think the mother told a lie. She wanted to bundle him onto the pram, he protested and as there were a few more people then, she just held him. I feel sorry for that boy. I'm sure the mother has pressures(4 young kids everyday) but it doesn't excuse her behaviour.
It actually brought back memories of my kindergarten teacher who had a deep hatred for me and another girl(my mum was friends with this girl's grandma and the grandma was head at some school). Anyway, one afternoon, she decided to beat us and three other boys black and blue.For kicks really as she often would. This girl was so pale and fragile-looking that even a slap would leave marks on her. She told us if we cried she would beat us further. The one boy was bawling his eyes out and i thought he'd pass out from the lashings. Anyway, later when I got home i was stripped of my top and made to stand on a chair, like i was some kind of "exhibit A" in court. My entire back was black and purple by then. I was at my aunt's but my parents were summoned immediately. My dad was away i think so it was only my mother who turned up. The friend wanted the police to be called immediately and for that awful woman to be arrested. My mother, ever the diplomat wanted her to be talked to instead and see if she could be rehabilitated. Christ! I don't think i ever got over that, I let my mother know when i was older and able to articulate myself. To this day, i still wanna spit on that woman's face, or corpse.
Ironically, my mom and i once met some woman who chatted briefly to my mother when we were out shopping. I stood apart from them but afterwards my mum asked me if i didn't recognise her. I said "who?" she said "your teacher from kindergarten". I felt rage well-up inside me! But in my mind I still had the image of the cruel twenty-something year old. I never occured to me that she might grow old and fat and that my memories of her might fade.
I have found out where she lives, I once heard she was sick. My mother said if i went to her and vented my spleen she might die from a heart-attack. I think I would have done man-kind a service
. Besides, mother isn't here to misguide me into letting go of what i should have dealt with ages ago. I don't think of it often, the kid's ear being severely twisted this morning brought it back.
As if that wasn't enough trauma, the landbitch sent an email, calling me "sweetie" and "Angel" and telling me how a wonderful tenant I've been, she hopes she wont upset me too much by telling me i have to move out. She has people who want the entire flat and as she is a businesswoman she has to take the opprotunity and since i haven't volunteered to move, i dont have to pay her in October. Well, she fucking has my money so it's not as if she is being charitable is it? The bitch is telling me i'm homeless but she understands. Fuck!Fuck! Fuck! Perhaps it's a good thing. afterall, the other girls i have been with have left, i should have left ages ago, but it's such a hassle. where am i gonna go? how will I raise the 2months deposit etc etc. She's just messed me up at a time when i don't need to be messed up. Anybody know any relatively good places in West London? Geezer has offered me to shack up with him in his dingy place in the past
It's looking awfully attractive now...not!
On the other hand, Deciever's friend is after my friend. He's rung me three times,she sort of flirted with him, I thought she liked him and she is shocked he is showing interest. Of course he wants a shag what else. She asked me if i'd met his family. I said no, had she? She said he has a sexy wife and three kids. Doh! He still thinks she is sexy and next time i might just pass her number to him so they can deal with their pent-up sexual attraction or non-attraction
. I have bigger things like homelessness to deal with than hooking people up or even myself up for that matter
On a positive note, i am meeting my friend C whom i haven't seen for almost the entire year. Amazing really considering last year when i was going thru some truly awful shit i could go up North and hole up in his house for days on end. It's only for a brief period though, he is passing thru London and so i'll see him for an hour or so.
I haven't started doing my assignments today. i'm being a bad girl, as bad as having a bottle of wine yesterday and paying for dinner for my money-hoarding friend last night(he'd better pay me as he knows im in the redx200 at the mo) and then having cramps in my legs again. something is up, i should either start eating salt or start running in the mornings or evenings.Or see the awful Dr. again. not.
Not the best start to my day all this.