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So yesterday there was an injured possum wandering around the street by my house. And it had died in the street in front of my house.
The garbage men show up and stop to take my garbage. I'm sitting on my deck with coffee and my 4 year old is eating her breakfast next to me at her tot table. My 15 year old was also out.
So Squish got up to watch the garbage men. She loves the truck.
Well they saw the dead possum(I was going to put on outside gloves and move it into the woods across the street so it could decompose without us seeing/smelling it. It had babies in its pouch.... so sad) and I guess they decided to clean it up.
But before picking it up, the guy came around with a metal baseball bat and began beating this possums corpse, and it was getting flung around by the impact and my poor Squish just turned away and started SOBBING. I immediately took her in the house and she was really upset for a while.
I mean was that shit really fucking nessesary?! They couldnt just poke it? They HAD to beat it and smear its guts on the street right in front of 4 year old?
Should I call and bitch or just drop it and not spend Wensday mornings outside until after the sociopath garbage men are gone?
My kid is STILL disturbed by that. She is now afraid of the garbage men. Trying to tell her they wanted to make sure it was dead just makes the whole thing WORSE. Uhg.
The garbage men show up and stop to take my garbage. I'm sitting on my deck with coffee and my 4 year old is eating her breakfast next to me at her tot table. My 15 year old was also out.
So Squish got up to watch the garbage men. She loves the truck.
Well they saw the dead possum(I was going to put on outside gloves and move it into the woods across the street so it could decompose without us seeing/smelling it. It had babies in its pouch.... so sad) and I guess they decided to clean it up.
But before picking it up, the guy came around with a metal baseball bat and began beating this possums corpse, and it was getting flung around by the impact and my poor Squish just turned away and started SOBBING. I immediately took her in the house and she was really upset for a while.
I mean was that shit really fucking nessesary?! They couldnt just poke it? They HAD to beat it and smear its guts on the street right in front of 4 year old?
Should I call and bitch or just drop it and not spend Wensday mornings outside until after the sociopath garbage men are gone?
My kid is STILL disturbed by that. She is now afraid of the garbage men. Trying to tell her they wanted to make sure it was dead just makes the whole thing WORSE. Uhg.
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