Hot on the heels of 'Mother's Day' is a story that I discovered on the net. If you've already read it then you know how some people assume they are the centre of the universe.
The story is real.
A 19 year old south Florida man pushed his mother in anger because she drank his Starbucks iced coffee that he put in her refrigerator. As the NBC Miami story "the spat started when Quintana's 43-year-old mom woke up from a nap with a parched throat. She saw her son's Starbucks in the refrigerator and probably thought it was safe to drink."
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Obviously it wasn't. In his fit of rage at his mother's utter disrespect for his property and for what in his mind "amounted to stealing," he pushed her down. You can be sure that the police did not quite see it his way and he was arrested and charged with battery.
I understand a lot of mothers dote on their children a bit too much. I can even see how this might instil in the child's mind the belief that the mother lives only to serve the child and his interests, but obviously the child is kidding himself when he continues to believe this as a man.
Moral of the story: Drink tea. The other thing is dote on, NOT devote yourself to, your children - they may be the apple of your eye, but you don't want to pay nurture to any rot at the core.
POST SCRIPT: A friend sent in another development across the world that sours the very milk in the Mother's Day spirit: "Just yesterday, Mother's Day to boot, a Bangladeshi lawyer stabbed his mother to death and then went on to the police station, surrendered and lead the cops to the body. Apparently he didn't care much for her cooking."
Thanks to Nazim Farhan Choudhury.
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