Sad little boy
We were driving down Killingsworth last night past one of the large trailer parks - the park is all behind a big privacy fence - but right where one of the openings in the fence is - we see a little boy - maybe 5 years old - standing on the side of the road. He’s right on the curb - looking out into the street with the saddest look ever on his face. Out in the middle of the street is a hippity-hop.
I can only assume that it took a bad bounce and went out into the street, but I’m guessing the kid wasn’t supposed to be out from behind the fence - let alone go into the street. There’s a lot of traffic on that road. So he just had to stare at it almost in tears.
As we drove by I said to my husband how sad that made me - he agreed and whipped a U-y in the middle of the street. We went back, jumped out, grabbed the toy and brought it over to the boy - just as his father (we guess) was coming out from behind the fence just letting into the kid. It looked like it could have been a bad situation - the kid made eye contact, but the adult wouldn’t. I just really hope that the extra few seconds we delayed the man from dragging the kid back behind the fence gave him a chance to cool down a bit.
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Is Metblogs turning in to LiveJournal? ;)
I don’t know… I’ve never read anything on LiveJournal
Thank you for posting that link. I thought you were talking about a dead bunny.
Oh, its a place people can write about boring things that happen in their lives for the few "friends" they have on it that may care; rather than a site dedicated to the topic of a city where people may care less about said things.
Ah - well since this post was an interesting commentary on social conditions in our city and how we as individuals can potentially influence them, then the answer is no.
daaaaave - glad to clear that up for you :)
Wow. When did Oklahoma get all aggro? I thought he was all about respecting people’s opinions, man…
Maybe those balls would have helped him write a few better pieces. Hell even the food nerds over at portlandfood.org managed to raise a good discussion over which local commercial spokesperson you’d want to shtoop.
I went with the chick from the Landmark Ford commercials. Rawr.