Originally posted by jatkins679
Well, I'm sorry, but that's just being mean towards someone else who doesn't even know who you are..... I mean, why would that get you so angry that you'd want to be that mean to one of them? Teaching a lesson? Hardly, I'd say that you're just being mean.
On the contrary, I'm not angry at all when I do that. I just hope that a brief moment of fear will make the kid think twice about where and how they leave their bike next time.
And contrary to what you say, they DO know who I am: I'm the one at the library desk who's tired of telling them to move their bikes where other people don't trip over them and where they don't block the doors. I'm actually on good terms with most of these kids, as they frequently come to the library to use the computers. If I was angry and wanted to punish them, I'd send them out and demand they put thir bike in the bike rack (inconveniently located out next to the road.)