Found: FERAL CHILD

I am still to this day taken by suprise at the level of oblivion of some parents. Case in point: Feral Child Encounter. This event topped off my already'series of unfortunate events" marathon of a day. As I am sitting at the park in our neighborhood(really nothing more than a field adjacent to a basketball court with what looks like home made hoops)awaiting the start of the free movie for the evening,still pondering the days crowbar-in-my-spokes moment and how to handle it my friend Gias daughter says,"their playing a really rough game". I turn just in time to see my son and hisBFF being taken out like chinese food, by some small feral looking creature,which then proceeds to start kicking them in the faces and trying to bite them.All that in the time it took me to BREATHE. Now I am already on my feet and making a bee line for this fierce lil tasmanina devil whose  lightening quik reflexes remind me ever so briefly of JIM CARREY in the MASK. Half way across the field I hear a slurred and slow string of syllables trying to leapfrog themselves together to form words.I see Owyn go down and now it's game on. The gurgler behind me who sounds like an astronaut talking thru a fish tank filtration system says,"that boys playing too hard". No shit! Understatement of the millenia.I whistle for mine (my whistle stops traffic in adjacent neighborhoods) and my kids jump up,dust off and come running. I take them to our blanket and wrestle the scenario that started my graceful speed hobble across and uneven field to save them, out of them. They started a game of kickball with feral boys brother, feral boy declined when OFFERED to join-then bum rushed the group when they started playing. The entire time they are telling me this gurgler(AKA PAW PAW) geez!, is listening ,turns to feral boy  says nothing just stares thru him and lights ANOTHER cigarette.! I explain loudly that my children are to beat him senseless if he comes near them, lock eyes with PAW PAW, and further explain that if theres blood drawn I'll draw it next. Movie was great, popcorn was hot and buttery-just the way I like it. the dilemma I was pondering at the time of the assault was this.
                                         I just found out that my sons BFF's Moms live in boyfriend is  someone I had to sue 8 yrs ago and has numerous drug charges and habits and has been in & outta rehab enough to give Lindsey Lohan a run for her money. This guy and his former wife were locked in a mortal combat situation with me on a wkly basis until 2 yrs later they were arrested and disappeared. He has not changed by what I can tell and was clearly hoping I didn't remember him.I do. So I do not want my son around him or at their house but he is super tight with this kid and I genuinely like him too. This friendship is one of THOSE friendships. Ya know the ones. The ones they NEED, the ones that bridge the gaps and keep the norm even when the norm aint norm any more. So what to do, what to do. I have til sunday afternoon. I'll keep ya posted.

keep following and I'm going to  post some pics tonite.