Sorry My Son Kicked Your Son’s Ass
It’s wrestling season in the middle school, and I watched a meet last night. My teen son quickly pinned his opponent. So fast, in fact, he looked up at the ref, wondering when the call would come. That one moment of lost focus was all it took for his opponent to waggle free – for a second. My son pinned him again, and this time the ref called it. I think the entire match took less than a minute.
A little while later, I was chatting with a mom who had a boy on the team. She had only been to one other match – one last year where a boy broke his arm in the first few minutes of the wrestling meet. I was there too – it was excruciating for us parents to watch. I can’t imagine the pain that boy was in.
Anyway, the match last night is the first one the mom had attended since that broken arm. Finally it was her son’s turn to wrestle.
Her boy is big and strong, and a woman near us gasped.
“Is that your son?” the gasping woman from the other team asked.
“Yes,” the mom on my team said. “Is that your son going up against him?”
The other woman nodded, and put a hand to her mouth. Clearly, she didn’t like her son’s odds.
Keep in mind, these boys wrestle in a weight class, so they weighed pretty much the same. But the boy from my son’s team was all muscle, lean, strong, ripped abs, broad shoulders. The other boy was out of shape.
To keep things clear, let’s call the strong boy from my son’s team Hulk, and the other boy Wimpy.
The ref started the match. Hulk picked Wimpy up and threw him to the mat. (No, this isn’t WWF. It was a legal throw.) Wimpy’s mom gasped loudly.
Hulk’s mom turned and said “Oh, I’m sorry. I hope my son didn’t hurt your boy.”
If there’s a more polite way to say, “sorry my son just kicked your son’s ass,” I don’t know it.
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Comment by meg
| November 4th, 2009
I could totally see myself apologizing to the other mom and actually sincerely mean it.
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Comment by BigLittleWolf
| November 4th, 2009
This is what makes me glad my boys pursued tennis, swimming and cycling. I couldn’t watch this… no matter who won! I’ll take my sons kicking butt in the techno-department, the tennis-department, and the arts-department… (fewer broken bones).
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Comment by Melinda
| November 4th, 2009
This is going to be my life, my 1st grader is the same size as the 6th graders in the the middle school
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Comment by Andrea
| November 4th, 2009
I have never understood wrestling. I think I would have had a hard time not laughing knowing the ‘hidden’ meaning behind the woman’s words.
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Comment by notasoccermom
| November 4th, 2009
OUCH!
My ex wrestled and my son did when he was only 4 years old. (they start them early in this town to make state champs). It was hard for me to watch other boys hurting him… but I am such a mother.
When they are in Jr high and high school, and in sports, they really should be in good shape I agree.
funny analogy
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Comment by Danielle
| November 4th, 2009
I am going to be the mom telling my kid to “kick her ass”.
Maybe that is a little wrong?
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Comment by Heather
| November 4th, 2009
LOL oh I would have just said Damn my kid just kicked your kids’ butt!
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Comment by Just Me...
| November 4th, 2009
That is sooo like something I would say.. Whether I meant it or not.. :):)
And you’re right.. There isn’t a better way to say it!!
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Comment by Laura
| November 4th, 2009
This is why I really REALLY dont want my son (or daughter) playing a contact sport. I may have picked that mom up and thrown her down – single mom style!
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Comment by TentCamper
| November 4th, 2009
Awesome!!! Gotta love when that happens.
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Comment by Senorita
| November 4th, 2009
Since your son had his time to wrestle, it is now time for you to do do a little wrestling of your own at night.
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Comment by Mindy/Single Mom Says...
| November 4th, 2009
Yeah, that’s tough. I think if it were the father it would have been different and maybe he would have used your phrase!
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Comment by Nicole
| November 4th, 2009
Too funny. I hope to someday not feel the need to apoligize when my kids are kicking some other kid’s ass. They all signed up for the sport, right? Doesn’t seem to phase my husband when my 5YO scores 10 goals before the first quarter, but the parents get pissed and I feel bad for them, and for my son as he gets the passive aggressive comments.
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Comment by jason
| November 4th, 2009
funny!
Comment by ShrimpieDad
| November 4th, 2009
Too funny. Wrestling is one of the true sports. One on one, with no other goal but to overpower your opponent. Takes smarts and skill. Good for your son.