Friday, December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas, You Ungrateful Brat

Now that I've got your attention...

 I love Christmas. Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!!!

I love the holiday season.

I love it when I'm able to give presents to family as a small token of appreciation for everything they have done for me for the year and beyond. 

I HATE when people can be ungrateful when you spend your hard-earned money on a gift and the person throws a temper-tantrum because it's not exactly what they wanted. 

Take this kid for instance:

(Edit: As of December 26th, mayra* (@_mayraduarte_), made her Twitter account private and later on that day made her account public again but removed the video from her tweets due to the attention it got. Yeah, too bad she forgot that once something is posted on the Internet, it's there forever and someone else is bound to post it elsewhere.

And here it is...from XO's Youtube account)



Are you kidding me with this?! I'm sorry, but that's being flat-out ungrateful. There's nothing cute about it. It wasn't cute back then when it was done back then, and it's not cute now. Do you know what would happened if I did something like that back when I was his age? I would have gotten my butt handed to me and it would have been well-deserved because I was being a brat (trying to keep this PG). As a matter of fact, it HAS happened to me before. I said a cuss word (I didn't know what it meant, I just heard it on TV). My family heard it. They got mad. Next thing I knew, I got a paddling, and it wasn't front hand to bare butt. It was a WOODEN PADDLE TO BARE BUTT. It hurt like crap. Same thing happened to me when I sneaked away to across the street without my permission. What happened? WOODEN PADDLE TO BARE BUTT. Do you know what happened after both incidents? I learned my lesson and didn't dare do that stuff again when I was younger. I learned that actions in life have consequences. So will the kid get a spanking? Will he be disciplined for his bratty moment? It doesn't seem like it will happen.

To my surprise, 2K Sports and NBA Store actually chimed in on this...


To say that I'm disappointed in how this ends is an understatement. The kid throws a temper tantrum because he didn't get what he wanted. The video was picked up by the media and now it looks like he will get TWO games for the price of nothing. And it only took a 10-second video to do it.

To their defense, I can't say he's a bad kid and she's a bad mother. I don't know either of them well enough to judge them. No one else can judge them either. But still...this sets a bad example for parents who want to raise their children right and kids who think  This situation and how it was resolved pretty much says that if you whine or complain enough, someone will make things better, and I for one don't like it. There were things I didn't get when I was a child, there are things I won't ever get as an adult. You know what? That's life. It happens. We can't and won't always get what we want.

To 2K Sports and NBA Store: I'm disappointed in you both for awarding such foolish behavior. Your games are meant to be bought by fans or given to kids as gifts for good work NOT foolish behavior. I'm pretty sure you made a lot of good parents upset with you giving into to this entitlement garbage.

To the mother: congrats on exposing a few minutes of your life for a lifetime of being rightfully ridiculed for a moment of foolishness by your son. The internet is forever. I hope it was worth it. And to those people you retweeted in support of you and your son's actions...they are just as delusional as you. May they never know what it's like to be a parent.

 And last but definitely not least...to the kid: I hope you realized sooner than later that life isn't always fair. You will not always get everything you want in life. There will be disappointments in your life. The best thing you can do is suck it up and move on. Also...I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but Christmas is the season of GIVING. So my suggestion for you next Christmas is to get some paper and crayons and/or coloring pencils, and MAKE your mom a Christmas card. I guarantee you it will be the greatest thing you can ever give to her because it's from the heart...which is the foundation of all Christmas presents you get and give. Also make sure you get it filmed and posted on social media. You will make someone's day and maybe even their year knowing that you gave someone something that came from within and they appreciated it more than words will ever know. But until that happens, you will be known by me and many others as an ungrateful, spoiled brat who whined so much that you actually got nationwide recognition. Your mother will be known as the delusional woman who decided to broadcast your foolish behavior for the world to see and for you both to be judged based off 10 seconds of your entire life. And 2K Sports and NBA Store will be viewed by many as two companies that decided that bratty behavior should be rewarded. Congrats to all parties involved on your 15 minutes of fame. I hope it was worth it.

Merry Christmas...
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