Am I Getting Old and Crabby?

I am beginning to wonder about how much tolerance I have any more for destructive children -- and their parents!


This is a nice little RV park with the sites situated around Reflection Lake. It also offers fishing to the public. I think it costs five dollars per pole per day and you can catch up to five fish. There have been a few tents pitched overnight as well as several vehicles who are day visitors at the various sites.


This morning we were enjoying watching both an adult Black-crowned Night Heron as well as an immature, mostly brown young one perched in the trees around the lake. It was also fun to watch the various fishing styles of the anglers.


There was a tent pitched down towards the end of the bay along with a van at the next site. There seemed to be half a dozen children scattered between the two sites. We noticed one of the children who looked to be 4-6 years old swinging a hatchet at one of the trees along the bank, hitting it over and over again. Another youngster, who looked a bit older, say 10-12, came along, took the hatchet away and started doing the same thing! Only he was big enough to take big chips out of the bark of the tree. When he got bored and dropped the hatchet, another, even smaller child, picked it up and started swinging it around!


The adults who were with them didn't do a darn thing about it! They just sat in their chairs and ignored the kids! I guess I just don't understand how you can allow your kids to be wantonly destructive and not do anything about it! (I did call the office to report the vandalism, but no one ever came to investigate.)


Maybe I'm just getting old and cranky!