The BEST thing ever happened in the waiting room before Princess's psychiatric appointment. The door opened, and into the waiting room came a police officer with
Dum dum dum DUM
a very young woman in county jumpsuit and tethered handcuffs.
The Cuddle Bear and I went about what we were doing, and so did Princess- to the naked eye. But I could feel her. Every time the woman moved, Princess stopped what she was doing and froze. I fully expected her to ask a question while the woman was in the room. I'm glad she waited, because I would have said what I did regardless of the audience. The woman was finally called in, and Princess turned to me and asked it:
"Mom, why was she wearing handcuffs?"
So I said it.
"Princess, I think she lives in jail. I wonder if she didn't practice obeying rules when she was a kid, so it was too hard to do it as a grown-up, too."
I love being inadvertently backed up by life.
(Disclaimer: please do not think I was not sensitive to this woman and her situation and all the variables in her life. I am. Although her snottiness to the officer gave one pause for thought.)
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*snort* hee hee
ReplyDeleteOk...I admit it....I am ROTFLMAO because you've got to love real life teachable moments. This one was huge.
ReplyDeleteExtraordinary! Something similar happened to me when I was with my foster son. In this case though, the message was to me, the hyper-forgiving one, too. She looked both intelligent, and even nice at first look - in any case my first instinct was to see HER as a victim, until she, too, started being rude and disrespectful to whoever was with her - using vulgarity and poor grammar, to boot! I had to remind myself that I am not always the best judge of character at a glance.
ReplyDeleteHow do you know she wasn't jailed for a crime she didn't commit?
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