A memorable park visit

EDITOR,
We recently bought a home and moved our family to Felton. We had a wonderful first Christmas in our new house, and at about 2 p.m. on Christmas Day, my husband and I decided to take our two young daughters to the park over by the lovely covered bridge. We would like to offer thanks to the following people for making our experience memorable:
To the guy who lives behind the park: Thanks for shouting obscenities and threats while standing in the road, thumping your bare chest at some poor guy in his minivan who was trying to park with his family. Where else should our girls learn those words but at a toddler park?
To his neighbor, burning trash in a pile in his front yard so that the smoke made it impossible to see from one end of the park to the other: I guess children ages 2 through 5 are very small, so they don’t really need much clean air to breathe. Thank you for reminding us of that.
To the woman who felt it necessary to run, twitching and shuddering from whatever she was on, to our toddler to talk to and try to touch her: Thank you for bringing up the word “methamphetamine” in our family chats. I guess it’s never too early to start drug education.
To the many unsupervised kids who were a good 10 years past the age limit of the playground: Thank you for making sure we could not use the playground equipment. I’m sure that even the baby-seat swing would not have been fun or appropriate for our toddler anyway.
And to their parents: Thank you for showing us what kind of parents we do not want to be.
And finally, to the woman whose unleashed dog kept running up to our toddler and circling and barking at her: Thank you for not leashing or even calling off your dog. It was the final straw that made us pack up the family and head over to Skypark, where you will find us from now on.
Stephanie Culligan, Felton