you know I am going to talk about it...

It may be a few days late,

but you have to know I am going to talk about the

tragedy that happened in our local Burger King this week.

A 12 year old boy raped in the boys bathroom.

I guess the part that angers me the most aside

from the fact that it has happened at all

is that there are always those who want to say,

"Where were to parents"

Ugh, the child was 12, long gone were the days

when he had to do his business in the ladies bathroom

with his momma because of safety.

At 12 years old, my children were riding their

bikes to the Burger King in Cut Off that happened

to be in front of our home.

They never went inside because they believed it was the

coolest thing to go through the drive-up on their bikes.

However, I know if they had needed to go to the bathroom

they would not have thought twice to enter the BK

to do their business. I would have never thought a

predator may be in the bathroom.

The thing parents have to worry about these days makes

me sad for them.

including the normal things like their education and their health,

now you have to worry about monsters lurking everywhere.

It is a sad world when you either have to take your teenage son

to the ladies bathroom with you or follow him there,

makes sure there is no one in the bathroom,

then allow him to go in there as you guard the door allowing

no one to go in until they exit.

Establishments will just have to start making family bathrooms.

From now on, when I have kiddies with me they are going to

stay right by my side and if they have to use the bathroom,

they will have to wait until we get home or risk the chance

that they are embarrassed by their auntie lil

as I scream in the bathroom "anybody in there"

if no answer, I go in myself and make sure there are

no monsters lurking, then they will be allowed in

as I stand holding onto the doorframes allowing no one in

until my lovey comes out.

Never thought we would have to take back our sayings,

"Monsters aren't real"