Just My Rant

It will come as little surprise to people who know me but for the rest of you I have to say it I HATE PEOPLE! I am so sick of having to deal with dumb ass, inconsiderate, rude, arrogant assholes I’m about two steps shy of a slash and burn policy. What in the hell is wrong with 99.9% of the people in the US these days? How much worse can it get before someone kicks these idiots in the head?

My first example of idiots comes from right next door to my house. We just took a wonderful 2 week vacation in Florida (our first 2 week vacation ever in 22 years of marriage I might add) and came home to a freaking nightmare. Everything looked fine at first, the house was still standing, dog and cats were fine, all outward appearances looked like things were normal. About an hour after getting home I walked around the outside of the house just to make sure. As I came around the back, where my car was parked something caught my eye, namely huge scratches across the trunk of my car and down the drivers side. Someone had keyed my Caddy in my own driveway!

Now I LOVE my car, it’s a 1995 Cadillac Eldorado that is next to perfect in every way. I saved it from a junkyard a few years ago and treat it like one of the family, hell I barely let anyone drive it so when I saw this I was livid to say the least. I called the police and then started looking around the house again. Sure enough I found the handle ripped off the side porch screen door and then noticed one of the second floor windows was opened about 2 inches. So much for that warm fuzzy vacation feeling! I also found playing cards from a casino scattered all around the yard, strange to say the least. I also knew almost immediately who had done the damage, my freaking asshole new neighbor’s kid and another kid from the neighborhood. Don’t ask me how I knew I just had one of those “gut feelings”.

The police showed up and started looking around. When I told them who I thought had done it he asked why I thought it was them. I told him straight out these kids parents could care less what the kids do and they are always hanging around just looking for some way to piss people off. He made the report and did a check of the house with us and then interviewed some of the other neighbors about who were around. He also said the neighbor behind us (whose kid I suspected) had made a report about some “older kids” hanging around in our back yard smoking cigarettes one night while we were gone. The officer knew the other kid (not my neighbors) and said he had had run ins with him before so he took off to question him. Within a few hours he was back with the kid in the back of his squad car and the little bastard was pointing to the back of my car. They took off after that so I still didn’t know what had happened. About an hour later the cop came back and told us the kid had admitted it “under pressure” and had indeed implicated our neighbor’s son. Since they weren’t home he would talk to them the next day.

Two days later the cop stopped back and told me the other kid had admitted it too but they refused to admit to the damage to the house or trying to break in. He also asked if I wanted to press charges and I told him I sure as hell did! Why you might ask? The parents had known what their kids had done for two days now! Do you think I got a phone call from either set of parents? Hell no! So if they don’t want to do what parents are supposed to do I’m gonna drag their miserable asses through the court system! Had it been my son who had done this (not that he ever would) I would have had his butt at the neighbor’s house within seconds begging for forgiveness and asking what he could do to pay back the cost of the damages, but then again I’m a parent that actually CARES what my kid does.

Yes I’m pissed at the kids for what they did but I am 1000 times madder at these idiot parents for not acting like parents and making their kids own up (face to face) to what they had done. Lastly I can’t believe this stupid bitch that lives behind me actually lied to the police about the “older kids” in my yard. Now remember, she told the cops this the same evening this happened. No one had reported the incident with my car yet! Now that tells me she freaking knew what her kid had done and was trying to cover it up before we got home. I wish to hell there was some way to charge her, maybe the $1000 charge to repaint my car will get her attention.

But the core of the matter here is parents and their lack of parenting skills. I saw this coming back in the 80s when they started this “don’t punish your children, give them a timeout” crap! I remember telling my wife back then that if this nonsense kept up we would have a generation of monsters running the street and sure enough it has happened. Couple this idiotic child rearing mindset with the fact that parents feel it’s more important to have lots of shiny new toys so they work like idiots to “keep up with the Jones” we have now created a giant population of children that will be lucky if they don’t end up in jail. Personally I don’t give a shit about them going to jail, I’m worried about who they hurt prior to them getting caught.

To prove my theory to some extent I will also relay the experiences of a friend of ours who is a teacher at the junior high / high school level. We live about 1.5 hours from mid town NYC so we have a lot of people that live here and commute to work in Manhattan. Many of these so called parents are in fact renting apartments in NY and spending the entire week there, leaving their children to “fend for themselves”. This friend has told us time and again that trying to discipline these children is next to impossible for the simple fact that they know their parents wont be home until late Friday night and will leave again early Monday morning. The kids know they can get away with anything so they don’t do homework, don’t show up for school and ignore any and all authority figures. Nice job of parenting huh?

Folks children are what they are taught and what examples their parents set for them. If you are more interested in that new Mercedes than you are in spending time with the children you brought into this world you are SO far out of touch it’s not funny! Why in god’s name did you have children if all you care about is material “toys”? Parenting is THE most important job in the world! It’s more important than ANY freaking material thing you could buy. It is the gift of life and example, a gift passed down from generation to generation and if you IDIOT wanna bee parents can’t get it right here soon there will be NO future for my child or yours. It’s time to get you head out of your ass and remember what is important, your family and your friends ………. trust me, nothing else matters!

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