(Remember how much I LOVE hockey pucks and the annoying people who throw or shoot them under your feet. If you have fallen because of one before, you understand what I mean.) Last night, after a full day of moving furniture and working at the house, I went ice skating. There’s a BIG sign right as you enter the ice that says “NO Hockey pucks or sticks on the ice during open skate”. There were like 8 people there including 2 “weekend*” dads and their collective 3 kids. This kid finds a hockey puck in the stands and starts throwing it around the ice. So I skate up to him and say “There are no hockey pucks allowed on the ice now. You need to take that off the ice.” He says “But I found it!” I said “I don’t care where it came from, it’s not allowed on the ice.” The kid is like 8 years old, so I know he understands what I’m saying. The dads are right there watching and listening to me say this. He continues to throw the puck around. The younger kid gets it and starts throwing it. I try to reason with him. “You can’t have that out here now because someone might trip on it and get hurt. Take and put it back where you found it.” So the little kid puts it on the bench. Older kid takes and picks it up again and is throwing it around on the ice. Finally, after getting it almost kicked under my feet for the 3rd time in a half hour, I just frickin LOST it. I picked it up and chucked it over the wall into this spare equipment area where all this junk is piled up. They all start YELLING at me. “You can’t do that!” “That was OURS”. Oh yeah? I just DID. If you want it, go find it. I was laughing so hard I had to get off the ice. Then I decided to leave before they all gang up on me and take revenge. *weekend dad= Dads who only have custody of their kids on the weekend and don’t want to “waste” time disciplining them and be the bad guy. Yeah, don’t tell me that I should have gone to management and let them handle it. Managment yesterday was this scrawny 18 year old kid that I have dealt with before that won’t do anything, so YES, I will take the law into my own hands.
