Here is a kid who NEEDS a bike

07-01-2004, 10:11 AM

This couple moved in upstairs from us (we live in a duplex) and they have a
little boy. Actually it's her kid, and a boyfriend. Our landlord won't
usually rent the upstairs to people with kids (and doesn't allow pets),
because there are no carpets. APparently, the kid is supposed to live with
the father. He's about 7 i guess. I was very apprehensive when I saw the
kid, and no, I don't hate kids. But every time I have had a family with kids
as my upstairs neighbors, they made my life miserable. For some reason, they
all had kids who did nothing but stay in the house all day, run around and
scream because they were bored and had nothing to do.So I had no reason to
believe it would be any different.

Guess what! The kid runs up and down from one end of the apartment to
another, that's all he seems to do. The mother bought him a pool for the
backyard but we've had some less than great weather. I get the feeling there
isn't much for him to do here and so he's in the apartment running
around,all the time. WE get woken up at 7:30 am and then he runs around all
day. THe mother seems like a total dingbat, more interested in herself and
her boyfriend; she lies outside tanning herself while the kid runs around
the apartment. I get the feeling the boyfriend isn't too happy having the
kid around all the time.

I feel like saying, get the kid a bike! He doesn't seem to have one, and
needs to do something besides hang around the apartment all day with his
mother, who just ignores him. I keep waiting for miss dingbat to tell
junior that there are people downstairs, but it never happens. And we have
to revolve our schedule to accommodate their stupid kid- if I go out I worry
that if I get home late, the kid will wake me up at 7:30.

If there was ever a kid who needs a bike, it's this kid. However, the
grownups are more like stupid kids themselves, and more interested in their
own fun. ANd not exactly into healthy living- she's more interested in
creating melanoma, and he smokes quite a bit and coughs a lot, so I doubt
he'll take the kid out for sports. The one good thing- we're moving in a few
weeks, and I plan to live in an upstairs so no kids live upstairs from me!

THanks for the rant. You know, it's not that I hate kids. It's just that, I
don't have a kid and I find that I often resent being inconvenienced by
other people's kids because they can't control them or just ignore them. ANd
it infuriates me when I see stupid parents who have kids without thinking
about it and then treat them like abortions.