Friday, July 30, 2010

Definitely Blogworthy

I posted an abbreviated version of this on my Facebook account today, but I think it deserves a more lengthy post, it was that good.
Our zoo membership expires tomorrow, so we decided that we would go to the zoo one last time, until we renew. It was your ordinary day at the zoo, a bit hot and sweaty, lethargic animals, excited and grumpy children, you know....pretty standard.
The story starts, however, near the old polar bear exhibit. Dave and I both spotted this family composed of a man, a woman, and two boys who were probably 6 and 7. The 35? year old man had no shirt, a mullet, sunglasses, shitty tattoos on both shoulders, and a "hard" looking face.
The woman was wearing a long black tight dress (kind of biker style,) with spaghetti straps. She had long blond hair and probably had about 190 pounds on her 5'10 frame.
The boys were both dirty blonde with goofy faces. They both had missing teeth, dirty clothes, and really, it was hard to get a good look at them because they were running wild.
Here comes the best part: The family had rented a green zoo wagon (big enough for maybe a couple toddlers to ride in.) They had stacked 4 coolers in this wagon and the woman was being pulled around on top of the coolers in the wagon, by the man. No, she was not doing this to be funny, she was lazy. She fell off several times, would get after her husband, then back on. Dave and I were having an EXTREMELY hard time not staring with our mouths agape.
The two back tires of the wagon were bent outward at an angle, and the rubber on one wheel was completely torn off, the other wheel's rubber was shredding and flapping against the pavement as the wagon rolled on. He wheeled her down to the penguin exhibit (if you can picture it, there is a small hill.) Then he wheeled her back up the hill, huffing and puffing. At the top of the hill, a wheel fell off, and the woman started cursing up a storm about the "shitty zoo wagon!," and how they were going to exchange it for a better wagon. She then started yelling "why do I gotta carry everyone elses F*#$ing stuff?" She was carrying nothing - everything was in the coolers. SERIOUSLY?!? I mean - REALLY?????!!!!????
I was beyond disgusted.
We thought that was the last we'd seen of her, but as we were leaving at 6 pm, letting Isaac play with the big water ball near the entrance, we see dudette, throwing a MAJOR fit, and causing a huge scene. Apparently they had behaved inappropriately all over the zoo because I heard security telling her that they'd had about 30 complaints from zoo-goers, plus they saw disorderly behavior. It was like a movie. Everyone was staring. Security was trying to escort her out, telling her that her party was being asked to leave. Instead of leaving, she was grabbing her kids arms and running toward the train, telling the kids to hop on the train. The husband was yelling at zoo security telling them they were going to sue their asses for everything they had - they would own the zoo after this was over. I could see parents of other children putting imaginary earmuffs on their kids' ears. Oh, also, the man was pulling a *different*zoo wagon full of coolers at this point. They then started screaming at the zoo security about what effed up people they are - kicking kids out of the zoo? How dare they? Their kids should be allowed to ride on the train dammit (as she continued to hop over the bars toward the train entrance) Apparently the woman also thought that the train people would just go along with her plan and take the family for a spin, disregarding security. Duh. Finally, they had to physically escort the family outside the gates to where a police car awaited. The other best part is that they never let go of that zoo wagon, it left the zoo with them (Thank you - it's probably tainted.)
My first thought was - REALLY?!?!? My second thought was - Dear God, please do not let this family move into Roosevelt's boundaries. My third, fourth and fifth thoughts were REALLY!?!? My last thought was, these people deserve to be caged more than these animals.
How do people like this even exist? How do they survive? How are people like this fertile enough to have children? REALLY?!?!? Seriously.

4 comments:

Jessi said...

This is probably the best zoo story ever, and you told it so well. I can so picture the whole thing going down. It is so crazy, it could be the plot for a sitcom or something. Are you sure there were no hidden cameras? HA!

Angie said...

Wow! That's crazy. What an eventful day at the zoo! I'm sure the animals were even entertained!

Hilary said...

That's just awesome -- I'm sure many scarred children left the zoo that day, accompanied by their horrified/highly amused parents :-)

Holli said...

why is it...I NEVER SEE GOOD STUFF LIKE THIS?