Last Thursday, I was at my husband's soccer game, as usual, and I encountered several individuals whom were not among the regulars. These guys, who were about my age, were cheering on a friend of theirs who also plays on Ed's team. At first, their cheers were happy and excited, but it appears that they soon got bored with that and they began to yell more obscene comments, jokes, inuendos, and cursings. These shoutings became worse as the night went on. My friends that I usually sit with rolled their eyes and quietly stated how annoying it was. During the last 15 minutes of the last game, I realized I couldn't stand listening to it anymore; my son was listening to it as were other families that were sitting nearby.
I turned to the group and said, "Im sorry, but some of us really don't appreciate your perverse comments and swearing. Please stop." They immediately denied saying anything wrong, but were silent for several minutes after my rebuke. Then the mocking began: "Hey, kick their heiney... oh, can we say that? Oh it might be a bad word.""Can we say butt?""No, that's oh-ffen-sive...haha...""People are such prudes." It continued the remainder of the game. I was so flustered and upset by that point that I couldn't even say anything and left immediately following the game.
I was so surprised by their audaciousness. How can they be that disrespectful? There were families there; one of yellers had his son with him. I guess what surprised me the most was that no one else said anything. No one agreed with me or supported me. No one said anything while they mocked me for 15 minutes straight. Not even my friends. No one. I felt so alone that night though I was surrounded by people I sit with every week. How can that be?
10 years ago
2 comments:
That is awful! I hate to hear things like that. It's probably a good thing Eddie wasn't pre-occupied cause I don't think he would have let those guys off very easily.
Yeah, I told him while we were still there and he almost went and said something to them, but instead told the guy on his team whose friends they were that his friends had been rude to me and that he better say something to them or Eddie would. That pretty much took care of it.
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