Contemporary

Stepping into my own shoes

Just some time ago, i came across a mother and her middle-aged daughter. They were… (best i would describe) almost yelling at each other outside the daughter’s blue sporty car. So I was there, as a passer-by wanted to cross the damn road, but the traffic probably had only allowed me to listen unintentionally to their public debate rather than letting me get to my destination across.

Having stucked right there listening to their “conversation” wasn’t all so bad afterall. In fact, the mother and daughter shouted on stuff that reminded me of my great english teacher in college, Miss Ng. Here was what i heard, though i tried to be as detailed as possible…

(already in the middle of the conversation and followed with…)
Daughter: So? You think i am stubborn?! Not as stubborn as u!
Mother: Young lady, you don’t have to repeat what I’ve said bout u! you never listen to me… since long ago!
Daughter: I’m telling you, mama, i did what i could already. If you don’t believe, fine by me. You go find someone else do it. No one will wanna do this for you!
Mother: You DIDN’T! or else…(couldn’t get this part as she was talking… whoa! way too fast to catch up).
Daughter: Haiyah! I don wanna talk bout this ‘dy. You wanna talk, you continue talking here in the car, meanwhile i go get *’s stuff. Stay! I don’t want you to follow!
Mother: Oh, you think u can do this to me? I wish you have daughters growing up exactly as you are!

* was some fella’s name, I couldn’t think what was the exact spelling, so it’s whateva you think is appropriate

There! That! YES, that line! The quotation by The Mother, “i wish you have daughters growing up exactly as you are!”
This is not the first I’ve heard so far. Miss Ng, my ESL teacher said this many times to her lazy, rude and untruthful students before. She would always say something like, “May you have 20 offsprings like yourself.” And her explanation was, “if you can treat people like that, so you should be able to swallow down such attitude too.”

So when she explained to me once before, I didn’t think it was wrong at all. And a couple of weeks ago, while chatting with Sienic and Audz, we were talking about kids we may have in the future (note the “may”). There, we all agreed that we can have children for ourselves, whether adopted or of our own. Then how do we wanna bring them up? And someone asked, “would you want, say, your daugher to be like you?” Now… that’s a question to ponder. Would i really want my own daughter to act, to behave, to treat other people, exactly the way I do?

Anyway, when i heard the mother-daughter ruckus right there, I just thought to myself how it would be like if there is a senior Peikz and a junior Peikz… Hmm… :-S As I walked home, i made a vow to myself to control my temper more whenever i encounter mom. Ah, all for the name of love…