Momma Bear

[Guest guest]

My daughter & I live in an apartment...have been here 5 years. We

really like it cause even though our address is Portland which is a big

city, we are waaaaaay on the outskirts where you can still see cows and

horses and trees!

There has been a dispute going on between two other families for the

past few months. We have been friendly with both and not at all

involved in the problem. It's all over a handicap parking spot. Now

our assigned parking spots are almost always VERY close to our front

doors. However, one of the neighbors both broke is foot and found out

he has a debiitating muscle condition that is progressive. The lady

from the other family almost always uses the handicap spot though her

assigned spot is right next to it. The fellow with the leg problem's

spot is one that is over farther.

He went to her and told her about his problem, and asked if it'd be ok

if he used the handicap spot for about a month til his brace came off.

The other lady blew a HUGE fuse...using the foulest language, raising

her voice, insisting she would use the %^!$#@ handicap spot all she

wanted (she does have a permit). Well, that was the start of it.

Everything I've seen of the injured fellow and his wife has been

positive...even when the other gal goes ballistic they have remained

calm and peaceable. So, if the handicap spot happens to be empty and

the fellow uses the handicap spot, the other gal has a tizzy fit, turns

her car alarm off & on, swears, etc. So lovely. And here Em & I

are...right n the middle, trying to live a peaceful co-existance with

everyone.

Well, last night that lady crossed the line. We have said NOTHING to

her and not been involved in any of this except what is heard through

the neighborhood grapevine. Well, my daughter Em, who has a

mild-moderate learning disability, is 24, works hard at Safeway, is one

of the sweetest people around, was walking home from the pool last night

and this " lady " peers out her window at my daughter and calls her

" RETARD! "

GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Poor Em was just crushed. I did my best to comfort & reassure her. I

also reported this to the office - this woman is 40 years old - not a

child, though I know some people never grow up. Now Em is nervous about

walking by their apartment.

Now I am a nice person...a faith-filled, praying person, who tries very

hard to give everyone the benefit of the doubt unless proven otherwise.

But today I have had MANY impulses...

egging her car

toilet papering her car

throwing firecrackers under her car

dumping a pail of water on her as she walks out of her apartment

slappin' her along side the head

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!

Rest assured I won't do any of that but my o my she better not hurt my

daughter again!

My kids always remind me of the time this snotty teenage boy was

throwing rocks at their bedroom window about midnight for several nights

in a row scaring the peewadin out of my girls. One night I had HAD it

so I grabbed my cane and hobbled to his house after midnight to speak to

his mother in my moo-moo!!!!! My Lord that must have been a sight!!!!

Oh, well, just had to get that out! Say a prayer...ok?

Tess...aka Momma Bear