[LRA]

Just an observation, I have been on this forum for several years and quite a few of the responses were from names not usually seen on this board, why is that?

Like another poster mentioned, I have been asked which child is mine and I have described her as the one with the long brown hair, or the one with the long brown curly hair..but when I say the chubby one, most people know which child I am talking about....does this make me anti chubby people? I hope not since I myself am chubby. We use words to form a description of someone or something, they are not meant to harm, just to describe something.

The poor woman had a big scare and was looking for support and she got bashed. She was alone with her two young children and was feeling threatened in her own driveway. It was a gut reaction and have we not heard "better safe than sorry" or go with your instints? None of us live in her neighborhood so we cannot say what is unusual for her area. I know in my neighborhood a young black male would stand out, racist? No, just a fact, it is not a very diverse area so it would raise questions. How sad that it seems we live in a world where everything has to be beige so no one will get offended by a description.

I hope you all can sleep well tonight knowing that you have made someone else feel terrible and that you have acted unkindly towards her.