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28

What Would You Do?

April 28, 2008 |

I decided to watch Desperate Housewives with my wife last night.  And we had a conversation about a scene in the show that hopefully none of us will ever have to have in real life.

As I don’t watch the show regularly, my wife had to bring me up to speed to understand the scene.  Evidently, one of the desperate housewives was tempted by a guy who moved into town.  He made a move on her, she refused - reluctantly.  Her husband found out and was jealous.  The other guy opened a restaurant next to the husband’s restaurant.  The husband threw a brick through the window of the other guy’s restaurant.  Next thing you know, the other guy’s restaurant burns down and matches of the husband’s restaurant are found at the scene.  There are recriminations, accusations, fights and alibis.

In any case, the couple’s three grade school aged boys had overheard them talking about the wife, their mother, being tempted by the other guy.   In last night’s epsiode the whole matter came to a head when the boys disclosed to their mother that they overheard their parents’ conversation and thought the other guy was going to take their mother away from them, so they were the ones who had set the fire to drive the other guy away.

If you were their parent, what would you do? 

Turn them into the police?  Keep the deed hidden?  Ground them for life?  Quietly find a way to repay the other guy?

Seriously, who knows what we would do?  They were only trying to protect their family.

Thank goodness, it only comes up in a pseudo-soap opera.  But it is an interesting question to ponder.  What is the right thing to do?


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  1. largebill on April 28, 2008 3:12 pm

    I typed and deleted a comment three times trying to answer your title question “What would I do.” Honest answer is I don’t know. I’d like to think I’d be like Andy Griffith and would march Opie over to apologize and agree to pay the damages. Bottom line being a parent isn’t easy and the more freedom we give them as they get older the more we worry about what they will do with that freedom.

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