Day 22 -- A Day With The Family You'll Never Forget

I could take the easy way out and link Day 10 and be done with this but that would be cheating and since I don't cheat, I'll give you another day. 

Picture it: Kings Dominion, Doswell, VA, Summer 2002. 

I was working for Dominion Power and they would give away free tickets to employees for Employee and Family Day at KD. So my then spouse, my daughter, my youngest son and I go because, well, it's free. 

Anyhoo, my son says he wants to get on the kiddie swings, so my daughter takes him to get on and being that my son's legs were and are rather long (he's about 4 at this time), he would swing them and touch the kid in front of him by accident. 

Kid's mom decided to grab my son and yell at him like she didn't have good sense. I'm on the other side of the swings so I didn't see it but my daughter comes over to me and says, "Ma, some lady is yelling at KJ."  Oh really?!

We proceed to go over to her and I ask her in a not so polite way what the hell was her problem. She tells me that KJ is kicking her daughter hard. My daughter looks at her dead in her eyes (she was about 12 then) and says, "you're not telling the truth lady and you know it. He kicked her swing once and I told him to stop and he did."  So I look at the woman and she decides to run...left her daughter strapped in the swing and everything. She finds a security guard and tries to say that I threatened her. I told him that I didn't and that she put her hands on my son. Now, a crowd (which included my coworkers and my supervisor) was starting to gather and they backed up what I said. 

She got thrown out of the park and we went on to enjoy our day.  

Moral of the story...DO NOT MESS WITH MARIA BRUCE'S BABIES...then and/or now. 

The pic has nothing to do with the story at all. This is The Berserker...my favorite ride at KD...when I was younger and had no sense.