Neighbor's 30+yr old horse needs to be put down/long venting rant ....

[English Chick]

So she thinks she is coming to blight we English with her rudeness and bad manners.....send her to me...I will absolutely "wipe the floor" with her verbally and send her back a better person! I am appalled at her lack of respect for her parents and the horses...she deserves a huge wake up call and she will get one from me!

ohhhh people like her make me sooooo mad!

Plus our welfare system is due for a big shake up by the Government, it wont be so easy in the future for anyone coming to the UK to think that it will all be free as it has been for everyone in the past......that will shock her!

Hugs to you for being such a caring wonderful neighbour...you are a credit to your country and BYC......

 

[Knight Hawk Ranch]

I am glad the old guy is at peace.

Rudenss is one reason I don't like to go very many places. As I have gotten older, I have become less tolerant of it.
I have a 4 year old daughter and we (dh and I) are making sure she uses her courtesies. She has already figured out that politeness gets her LOTS more things than gimme gimee does.

 

[Ellie_NY_chick]

Mudhen, you're a good egg. Everyone should have a friend like you.

RANT

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As for children/offspring, all I can say is what I say what I think when I hear these stories: you reap what you sow. There are more and more self entitled lazy bratty selfish kids in this country because the PARENTS are allowing it to be that way. I was raised by a single mother (my parents divorced when I was 5) who was at work all day, along with 6 of my brothers and sisters, and there were certain things that you did and certain things that you didn't. We all had our moments, especially as teenagers, but nothing like what I see and hear now.

There's just no excuse for it. Kids are spoiled spoiled spoiled. They see it, they want it, they get it, regardless of the price or if they deserve it. When I was a kid

McDonald's was a rare treat. I was excited to get new school supplies. We got toys on Christmas or for our birthday - not just because we behaved in the grocery store! You behaved or else. We cleaned the house, did the dishes, and if my mother let us, we got to cook. It was a big deal when I helped my mother cook Thanksgiving. I was proud that she let me. We got jobs as soon as we were old enough to work and guess what - my mother got part of the money! You were welcome to stay home after 18, but you paid rent (at a much cheaper rate than you would for an apt, but still). My Dad bought us all our first car, but we paid for all the expenses for it, including insurance, and if you didn't, my parents didn't pay the bill for you.

I'm starting to sound like one of those e-mails you get every once in awhile, but heck it's true! I don't see the mortgage crisis waking some people up the way it should. I still see people in stores buying a ton of CR*P - just junk. I blame TV. Watch HGTV - like that show What's My House Worth? - and all the houses are $400,000, $600,000, $800,000! And more! Furnished to the 9's too. It's designed to make the average person feel like a "have not", so they turn to other things - running up credit cards, overeating, drinking too much, taking drugs, etc etc.

Okay, RANT OVER. Sorry.

 

[mudhen]

Believe me, I agree with your 'rant'!
Thanks everyone for your comments and support.
And I agree 100%, you reap what you sow. I just really feel for them, because they worked doubly hard all their lives to pay for the best schooling and life for her, and I am sure she was spoiled. But she now manipulates them shamelessly and they seem powerless to stop her.

Sad, sad, sad. Whether she goes to England or Timbuktu, I hope she leaves and gets her wake-up call or commupins. English Chick, she really need someone to knock some sense into her!
Her parents deserve better.

Again, thanks to each of you for your shoulder!

 

[SpottedCrow]

Jeeze, Muddy...
I'd also love to have you as a neighbour...that's what they were like in the "Auld Dayse".

The daughter needs to have a kick in the butt...

As for moving to Old Blighty and getting free health care because she's POLISH, I don't think it works like that...

I hearya Ellie...some of the stuff that the kids do these days would've gotten ME killed. It was so much easier when kids feared their parents...now they'll call Child Services on you if you raise your hand to them...

Muddy, sounds to me like the "playing with being a Wiccan" was just trying to get the parents' goat...It's not everyone's path and it's not something that you jump in and out of like underwear...

 

[Chirpy]

I'm really thinking you need to put her in touch with English Chick!

 

[ninjapoodles]

If I'd been in the parents' shoes, I'd have had the horse put down and buried and then just told the daughter AFTER the fact, simply that the horse died. It wouldn't have been a surprise, with its age..."he died, and we buried him in a nice spot." Period.

It sounds to me like, besides the daughter's history of bad behavior/selfishness, that there is a long tradition of enabling by the parents. Which, of course, is done out of love--just misguidedly.

 

[freemotion]

It just dawned on me that the parents probably legally owned the horse anyways....did they buy it for her before she was 18, then take full care of it all those years? Then she would've had a tough time proving ownership anyways.

 

[SarahBeth9394]

That's what I was thinking. If the parents got this horse for her when she was a minor they got it knowing that it was their responsibility and it didn't magically become hers when she came of adult age. The horse was their responsibility and she really had no say over how the horse was put down. They have given her control to manipulate them. They let her treat them that way. So it is hard to feel bad for them. I just feel bad for the horse.