Morton, his wife and their three year old son Larry enjoyed the Sunday afternoon in the park, everything was peaceful and quiet until a fat kid named Joe who playing next to Larry threw sand on his head. The mother wanted to protect his son, but she decided to wait while looking around for the adult who accompanied the child. The only person in the park was a man on a bench, who the wife thought was the boy's father.
The child threw sand on her son’s head again; this time she rebuked the boy seriously. The response of the man on the bench was to urge his son to continue throwing sand because it was a public sandbox. Morton tried to talk the man calmly and reasonably, but the man didn’t let Larry’s father talk. The man knew he was taller and stronger than him and could easily beat Morton in a fight. Although Morton was very angry, he did not want to fight. Because of the tense atmosphere, the family left the park while the father gave reasons to his wife and himself for failing to defend their rights. His wife agreed, but inside her heart she felt that her husband didn’t protect them from the bully, she thought of this while Morton lost patience with their son, who did not want to leave the park, and inadvertently the mother heard herself threatening her husband the same way the man on the bench did.
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