Parents defending children often seems to trigger some primal level of reaction. Personally, I can imagine wanting to say even more to those parents about what kind of bad example they were setting to their children on how to handle conflict (not to mention how much they were acting like children themselves).
I have seen my dad get very angry about something a stranger has done to be rude to me or a sibling, and decided to confront said stranger. Looking back on times either he or I have approached a situation like this, it seems like any of the times they were approached with anger they never resulted in a satisfactory outcome. Something for me to ponder....
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Date: 2004-12-22 09:10 am (UTC)I have seen my dad get very angry about something a stranger has done to be rude to me or a sibling, and decided to confront said stranger. Looking back on times either he or I have approached a situation like this, it seems like any of the times they were approached with anger they never resulted in a satisfactory outcome. Something for me to ponder....