We went to the park as a family today. We wanted Bailey to get some more practice rider her bike with out training wheels. It was a beautiful day for it too, it was bright and sunny and in the mid 70s. I think everyone else had the same idea, because the park was very crowded.
So off Bailey went on her bike, after a big push from daddy. She made it almost the entire way around the track, when she crashed into someone. Bailey had ran into a teenage girl walking around the track. Bailey told her to watch out, because she is still having trouble with braking (she gets confused between the pedal brakes and the hand brakes.) She ended up clipping the teenager, with edge of her handle bar, and they both went down. Of course Mommy and Daddy were on the other side of the track so it took us a while to get to her.
Bailey came running towards us crying. When she got to us her said through her tears, she ran into a girl and fell down, and the girl called her "A STUPID BITCH !!" Can you imagine someone saying that to a 6 year old girl ?!?!?!? Mommy wanted to have a few words with this girl, but she took Bailey into the bathroom to clean up her cuts and scrapes.
After Bailey (and Mommy) had calmed down a bit, we found the girl Bailey ran into and made Bailey apologize to her for accidentally hitting her. The little snot said "Good, it hurt a lot." No apologizes for what she said I am afraid (I didn't want to call her out on it and have a scene in the middle of the park, and get Bailey all upset again.)
After all the drama (and trauma) Bailey decided she was done riding her bike today, and she wanted to go home. We felt very bad about the whole situation, and I hope and pray that this does not dampen her love of bike riding and exercising at the park.
P.S. and to top it all off the battery in my stupid Nike+ sensor died, so I have no idea how much walking I did today :-(
