This weekend I witnessed some parents who need to be sent back to the school of humanity.
Today. I came upon an accident in front of the Dairy Queen. The car was pretty mangled against a telephone pole. The airbag had deployed. The driver was a young girl who had just got her license. She was ok so I went to direct traffic until the fire department and police arrived.
I went over to talk to her after traffic was in the hands of the PD and FD. She was still extremely upset. She kept saying over and over that her dad was going to be upset with her for wrecking the car and she would never be allowed to drive again. We tried to assure her that her dad would be happy she was OK but she continued to be afraid of what he would do when he go there.
The tow trucks arrived. Dad arrived. The tow truck with the girl’s car was just pulling out. Dad was more concerned about where the car was being towed because they were from Lawrence county. He asked the cop if she was allowed to leave. He told her “Come on.. Let’s go home.” He never asked if she was OK or anything.
Why do people have to be like that? The girl was more afraid of her dad’s reaction than she was of the police officer. I’ve seen this happen several times. Once at the race track, I had a kid come up with a clearly broken arm. He was calm with no tears or anything. “Mister?? I think I broke my arm.” I called the ambulance up. Because he was a minor, the medics needed a guardian for permission to treat. The boy’s dad was a driver. I went down and got him in the pits. His first words when I told him the boy had an accident was “What the f#$k did he do now!?”
The boy’s grandmother was called and ‘Dad’ was taken up to the ambulance. He immediately began to chastise the boy when the ambulance doors opened. The boy began to cry. I felt bad because here was this kid… all calm, cool and collected when he came to me with a bone clearly pressing up on the skin. Dad was treating him like he robbed a bank and killed three people in the process. The boy had to wait till grandma got there to take him to the hospital because dad had to go back racing.
These things make me cringe. Is our world that messed up?! Enough for now.
~Cappy