10/05/2026
Last night I was out on a walk with Totty right after sunfall because it’s been so hot it’s the only time he can ride his bike and when he stopped to put the lids back on someone’s trash cans she came down the driveway screaming at him “your nothing but a a dirty grungy kid!!!get off my property” we were on the street with her cans not even on her property as she started charging at us screaming at totty while I was trying to explain she knew who we are that live on her street thinking she was just being old and needed a minute but no she started screaming my son is a dirty rat that plays with trash and should be put in his place.
My son is 2.
He brings the trash lady flowers to her window.
He pulls in the cans for all the senior neighbors.
He rides his monster truck around with cold drinks to the make sure the street sweeper guy gets one too.
He’s just a little boy.
For the first time last night I saw him scared and completely intune to someone not accepting to his liking of trashcans and a piece of my heart was left on the curb while I taught him sometimes we have to walk backwards when we can’t turn our back to someone not safe even when we’re scared.
We walked backward down the whole street while she stood there screaming at him.
My heart hurts for Totty 💔
You don’t need to understand someone to be kind.
Age doesn’t dismiss your responsibility for being kind.
Hating a child for liking something you don’t understand, is weird behavior.
