07 October 2022
1080
R. Linda:
Wednesday, the new neighbour's child who is the same age as my youngest was riding the school bus when a fellow classmate made a remark the boy took exception to. Within a flash the neighbour boy was up out of his seat and punched the offending child in the nose, causing it to bleed profusely. The bus driver had to pull over to minister to the bleeding screaming child. This, of course, made for a report to the school over the incident and the neighbour child and parents were called to the school office.
Embarrassed, the neighbour parents promised to keep things under control and take the proper steps for home punishment which was no tablet and Mindcraft for a month. The very next day after the school bus dropped a group off a bigger kiddo approached the new neighbour boy and punched him in the nose! "That's for punching Freddie!"
Well, a nosebleed was in session, and to the door of his abode did the neighbour child go, cleaning himself up as he went. But his sharp-eyed mum spied some dried blood on his shirt and with sinking heart thought, oh no not again!
The child told her what happened and this got her dander up it did. But he cried and carried on and told her not to tell and let it go, and so on and so forth. She informed him his dad had to know and go to his room and read a book, they'd all discuss it later when father was home.
Well, he didn't read a book, instead, he climbed out his bedroom window and ran down to the first kid's house where he saw through the hedges, the child out back by himself swinging on the family swing set. He shot out of the hedges like a bat out of hell and punched "Freddie" square in the nose again! Yes, there was blood and screaming and the neighbour child was off and home before his parent's phone rang with the news of renewed combat.
Mumsy found her boy sitting on his bed reading (or so it looked) like he'd never moved from the spot. Perplexed she informed the woman on the other end of the phone, it could not have been her son. But it was. I didn't get all the particulars, but I know the school was informed again, and all three juveniles are in detention with parents on notice that suspension be next if they all don't shape up.
Hum, I do wonder what the chances of that are.
Gabe
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