美国妈妈写公告斥责万圣节南瓜贼

2013-11-01 10:26:44来源：网络

　　When a Halloween thief stole a pumpkin from the front porch of her family's home, one Washington, D.C., mom didn't just get mad, she got creative.

　　The mom, Becky Reina, 33, posted a sign on the front of her house with a clear message for the person or persons who took the pumpkin her 2-year-old son, Tommy, had specifically picked as his own just days before.

　　"To the person who stole my son's pumpkin: Thank you for the life lesson, this will help teach him that sometimes people are mean for no reason, and you have to just brush it off. Because my son is two years old and cannot read the sign, I will add, you are an ***hole," Reina wrote.

　　"It was just the mom in me that got upset," Reina, a lawyer turned stay-at-home mom to Tommy and his 3-month-old sister, Abby, told GoodMorningAmerica.com. "I figured the sign would be a way to make me feel better and also distract him."

　　Reina was worried how her son would react after she discovered his pumpkin was missing from their home's front porch last Thursday night, just around Tommy's bedtime. The Reinas had gone to a pumpkin orchard the previous Sunday and Tommy had picked out four pumpkins, one for each of his immediate family members.

　　"Every morning we'd go out and count the pumpkins," Reina said. "The fact that it was only his that was missing was somehow so much more upsetting."

　　"We never thought about switching it out," she said. "He'd be on to us."

　　Reina made the sign that same night and hung it up, with Tommy's help, the next morning. The sign not only successfully distracted Tommy, it also caught the eyes of the family's neighbors and the world.

　　Reina posted a photo of the sign to her Facebook page, a friend posted the photo on Reddit and it quickly went viral, drawing media coverage from as far away as England.

　　"We live really close to Howard University so lots of college kids walk by and they find it particularly funny," Reina said of the local reaction. "People stop to look at it and knock on the door and share stories."

　　Reina says most people are particularly amused by the last line of the sign, which she says she had to include in order to be okay with posting it.

　　"The sign is a joke, for sure," she said. "I wouldn't put up a sign that isn't funny and I wouldn't have put the sign up without the last line for sure, because that's what makes it funny. That's the punch line."

　　Reina's real message with the sign, she says, was to teach Tommy that, "bad things happen and you have to just get over them and brush it off."

　　The lesson seems to have worked for 2-year-old Tommy who still plans to dress as a mummy for Halloween and trick-or-treat in his family's neighborhood, according to his mom.

　　美国华盛顿州33岁的母亲贝基雷纳难忍自家万圣节南瓜遭窃惹儿子伤心的愤怒，向偷瓜的小偷发出公告，希望以此来安慰年幼的儿子汤米，同时也斥责南瓜贼。

　　因为小偷偷走了小汤米家门廊前的一只南瓜，使得两岁的汤米很是沮丧，他的父母也倍感气愤，于是小男孩的母亲贝基给南瓜贼发出公告，并把它贴在了大门上。公告写道：“致偷我儿子南瓜的小偷：谢谢你给了我们一个教训，这将告诉我的儿子有些人的卑鄙是毫无理由的，我们只能选择无视。因为我儿子才两岁，读不懂公告，所以我要加一句：你真是个混蛋!”

　　贝基说，虽然她的儿子很小，但已能明白发生了什么并且很难过。小汤米已经把门廊前的四个南瓜都当成家庭成员了。自从上周我们把南瓜放在门廊外，汤米每天早上出门时都会挨个数一遍南瓜。我希望能用张贴公告的方式来安慰汤米。也许那个偷南瓜的小偷永远看不到公告，但这起码会让我心里觉得舒服些。”

　　贝基在汤米的帮助下，把这个公告挂出来。次日，这则公告不仅成功的分散了汤米的注意力，也吸引了很多邻居和世界上其他地方的目光。贝基把公告的照片发布在自己的facebook上，这个照片被迅速扩散，甚至吸引了来自遥远的英国的媒体的注意。

　　贝基说许多人都被最后一句话逗乐了。她解释说：“那个公告就是个玩笑，没那句话我还不发出来呢，就是为了好玩。”

　　贝基希望通过这件事儿教给儿子：“坏事情会发生的，你得无视它，慢慢从中恢复过来。”这一课看上去对汤米很奏效，他已经计划好，到时候穿上万圣节的服装，去跟邻居要糖了。

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