Brutkey

E. C. Bigribs
@eedly@mindly.social

@benroyce@mastodon.social A while back (I think my daughter was 7 at the time) someone came to our house and informed us that she and her friends had been climbing on the big bank of USPS locking mailboxes at the other end of the street, and that it was a federal offense to tamper with Postal Service equipment. This person had the tone of someone who was doing us a huge favor because she could have just had our child packed off to prison. I was raised in New England, so I did the New England thing of saying "Oh, okay" with a completely flat affect and ending the interaction, not really processing anything I'd just heard. Spouse, however, turned to our daughter and said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "That woman is angry and ridiculous and full of shit, and if she EVER approaches you again, you come tell me immediately."