No, "soccer mom" we are not all crazy!

On the evening after getting home from the hospital with Maisy, I found myself driving to rugby practice, picking up kids and watching Brennan's soccer game. I was in a bit of a daze after the events of the week. I stood behind two other parents having all kinds of discussions about things going on. I wasn't trying to listen, but a few subjects made my ears perk up. And I hadn't had adult much conversation while at the hospital. I thought it might be nice to meet some of the other parents. First, it was discussion about jobs, the economy and the impending nursing strike. Then things took a turn for the worse. The next topic was the immigrants and how they should go back to their countries if they can't speak the language. Oh...their arrogance and ethnocentricity was getting on my nerves. And then later, they were discussing the way African Americans get mad that they are racially profiled but in one of their opinions, "shouldn't the police be using their brains and our tax dollars well by going after the people who are most likely the criminals..." These soccer moms were talking too loud around the wrong, over tired, person. Would this be the time to mention that my son was the black kid on the team? Good thing they weren't including me in their conversation....

I walked farther down the line of parents, in attempt to not raise my blood pressure any higher..after all, I was just overhearing a conversation that did not involve me. Two parents who had boys playing on my son's team were talking about their favorite TV shows. I knew I didn't have much to offer to the subject, but I thought that would be a simple conversation to join and the moms seemed inviting. They began talking about all of the reality shows on the air and the conversation quickly turned to the Duggers and their show (18 kids and counting, I think.) We don't get the channel, but I read  People magazine in the waiting room when the kids go to therapy --and there always seems to be an article about the Duggars.

Now this was a topic I could put my two cents into, I thought.  Until one of the moms let her opinion be known right from the start. "I don't know. But there just has to be something "not all there" about people who keep having so many kids. It's just wrong. They have to be crazy." Interestingly, the soccer Dad that had joined the conversation from his handy folding soccer  chair a few yards away, announced "But, those Dugger kids are all good looking." What????? This conversation was going no where I wanted to be. I walked away and made small talk about someone's soccer dog...