7 year old girl flipped my mother off and the adults think it’s funny.
My mom is 62 years old and lives in a section 8 complex. She has been here for 12 years, she originally moved with her husband who passed away last year. She deals with a lot from neighbors- children and teenagers in particular. One thing is that the kids regularly taunt and chase the stray cats. My mom has been confronted by parents for nicely asking the kids not to do that. The children often run up on her porch and leave trash around the area. Their parents don’t hold them accountable for anything. I’ve even seen them laughing from their porches when their kids chase the cats. I think they resent my mom because she cares about animals.
The other day I walked with her up to the office to take care of an issue related to her rent and the staff were on lunch so we decided to wait there. A group of children ranging from approximately ages 5-16 to were at the playground behind the office, with two adult women. The kids kept walking up to where we were and staring at us as if we didn’t have the right to be there. My mom was stressed about her rent situation and not in the mood to deal with other people’s children. So she asked them if they needed anything, and they just kept staring while the two adult women giggled and whispered. One little girl about 7 or 8 lingered around longer, kept walking in circles around us. She finally went behind a tree, made an ugly face at my mother and flipped her the bird.
The women just laughed at it and kept also staring at us as if we had no right to be there. My mom asked the little girl where she lived and she ignored her. I’ll admit I lost my temper a bit and yelled that she was behaving like a brat. The girl told another boy she was going to get her mom and ran off. We decided to leave rather than deal with another confrontation. My mom has called the office and reported this numerous times over the years and they don’t do anything about it.
It makes me angry that the adults are encourage such behavior. I posted something on a community group generally explaining what happened, and people were assuming my mom had done or said something to the child. Or was unfriendly, etc. The general consensus, who doesn’t even know the full situation, was in support of the child’s behavior, somehow believing my mom deserved it. I’ll never understand that logic.