Scene: *me sitting at a park bench along the Willamette river watching a father and son fishing from the boat dock with the clearly marked sign "NO FISHING FROM DOCK". I'm close enough to hear every word uttered between the two yet far enough he must not think I can or doesn't care. I vote for the latter.*
father: Stop crossing my f@#cking line.
son: sorry, it just keeps drifting that way.
*fathers line tightens and he gets excited*
father: come grab my pole I've got one on and want you to reel it in (a kind gesture)
son: SWEET!!!
*son grabs pole and start reeling - father leans over to peer into water*
father: keep reeling I can see it and it is f@#king huge
*snap - line goes lose and the fish is gone* note: I was close enough to see the fish and it was huge. Maybe not f@#cking huge, but huge nonetheless for a fish in this river
father: FFF@#@@#@K!!! FF@##%T%@%Kity!!! F@#K! you didn't reel fast enough the f@#ker got away. Did you see that huge f@#ker?!? It was f@#king huge and you let it get away. Man that was f@#king huge.*repeat the last sentence ten times 16 seconds apart...*
son: oh man, I'm sorry, it tried...
father: FFF@#KKKK!!!
*father picks up cell, dials a number, stands there for a minute, puts cell down*
father F@#K!!!
*father picks up cell again, dial a number, speaks...*
father to cell: I just got the biggest mother-f@#king fish on the line, had to be at least two feet and fifty pounds (an exaggeration for sure) and I let Hayden reel it in but the f@#ker got away.... yeah he didn't reel it fast enough... it was a huge f@#ker and I'm f@#king pissed it got away... yeah... okay... later then.
father to the air: F@#K!!!
*close scene* not that it is over, it wasn't. This went on for over twenty minutes.
Let's examine. What did the son learn from his father? Answer, how to be an ass. That's it. Nothing more. An ass!
20 years from now what will that kid be like when he's fishing with his son? We learn from our relationships how to have relationships. This kid is not learning how to have a good father son relationship. Sad.
4 comments:
That's very sad. :-(
I witnessed something similar at a grocery store with two very young parents grocery shopping with their 2-3 year old. The little kid did what they do...she helped Mommy and Daddy 'shop' by adding random items to the card. The mother asked her a few times not to do it and finally snapped at the little one 'How many f%#&ing times have I told you to knock it off' while ripping the item from her baby's hands. The child promptly started to cry. I must have stood there staring with a rather appalled expression because the mother gave me a dirty look upon which i quickly left. I didn't want to antagonize the parents and have them potentially take it out on the little girl at home.
The thing is that it's unlikely that the father your portraited or the mother I told you about were taught any better by their parents so how would they know?
Marlis, it is a perpetuating problem.
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