The web (and even the U.S. national news!) is all abuzz and positively scandalized that Spanish tennis player, David Ferrer, frustrated over a screaming baby in the crowd at his Florida tennis match, lightly lobbed a tennis ball in the direction of the wailing brat. Some news outlets (especially ABC, and that loathesome Robin Roberts--who's a loud crybaby herself--see the clip) are trying to spin the story that he fired a missile-strength ball directly at the kid's head...but if you watch the replay video, it was nothing like that. Personally, I think he should have lobbed the ball at the head of the FATHER of the screaming infant! Why, on earth---other than being too cheap to hire a babysitter---would a parent bring an infant to a tennis match?? Weren't there any golf games he could go and ruin? Aren't there rules against such things? Why do certain people feel some sense of innate "entitlement" to shlepp their kid absolutely anywhere they please (think: 4-star restaurants, movie theatres, etc.)? And while we're at it, and maybe it's just a NYC thing---but those double, and even TRIPLE-wide strollers that certain mothers feel they are entitled to use, hogging the entire sidewalk, not to mention small stores and businesses. Don't get me started...
Click below to see the footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgbxPcOBGrc
Thank you Thank you Thank you....oh kind sir of logic and reasonableness. I'd have lobbed one that way myself. Upon watching the video, I had to question myself. I was not, as Robin and her Merry Band were, horrified....in fact, I applauded the tennis player...get a sitter. No one wants to listen to your kid schwall.
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