What's wrong with people?

twoinanddone
Sat, 30 Dec 2017 19:23:30 +0000

We have OP’s side of the story. The other woman could very well be on the computer with her friends telling her side. “I can’t believe this mother at basketball. She cheers for everyone at the top of her voice and acts like we are the best team in the league. I didn’t want to talk about the game so I removed myself to the exit, as far away as I could without leaving the gym and still waiting for my child to come out of the locker room. I TOLD her I didn’t want to talk about it and then she assaulted me! She touched me after I said I didn’t want to talk about it. I gritted my teeth and stated firmly, ‘don’t touch me. I DON’t want to talk about it!’ and then she gave me the death stare. I didn’t shout or slap her hand, just stated that I didn’t want to talk about it. Twice.”

Two sides to the story. People have a right to stand quietly without being accused of being psychotic or having a mental illness. She stood off away from the group. It may be that she doesn’t like the group of parents. Doesn’t make her mentally ill, doesn’t mean she’s just broken up with her husband, doesn’t mean her mother just died. She just didn’t want to talk about it and didn’t want to be touched.

I have separated myself from the other parents after games. Yep, I didn’t like some of them socially and I didn’t want to say nice things about them or their kids, so I just stepped away while waiting for my kid. I wasn’t having a bad day or a breakdown, just waiting quietly. And don’t touch me.