Today’s question is: Why would someone agree to attend their child’s field trip and then spend the whole time on their smart phone?
Background: A couple of months ago I attended a 1 hour field trip with one of my children. We went to this really cool place and got an inside view of something really cool. Field trips can be so fun and informative.
Right after we arrived we were standing around this man who is telling us all about how the plant runs and he was showing us all sorts of things on his computer. It was really interesting (I really loved it, can you tell?).
So…….
Out of the corner of my eye I see one of the moms frantically clicking away on her smart phone. She isn’t paying attention to anything going on in the moment, only whatever she is doing on her phone. Then I notice her child. Her child saw her. Her child watched her as she totally ignored all that was going on in the present and clicked away at that phone. And it made me think “what is so important it can’t wait 1 hour?” Why do people think what is happening somewhere else is more important that what is happening right in front of them?
For all of you out there that want to say, well maybe she works, here is what I have to say. If she took the time off from work to attend this field trip she should be able to NOT work for the 1 measly hour it trip took. It all comes down to a decision, she decided to attend the field trip, so she should have been there, more than just physically.
December 5, 2011 @ 2:37 pm
Today’s question is: why do people park like idiots?
Background: Seriously, this is the scene in front of school yesterday, well not in front, but in front of the house next door to the school:
Have you read the rules of the road? Where do you think they list this kind of parking as acceptable? Apparently the driver of this car thinks he/she is much more important than whomever lives in this house. Nice selfish move huh? What a jerk.
April 29, 2010 @ 11:41 pm
Today’s question is: Why, upon discovering you’ve grabbed something that isn’t yours, would you toss it into the bushes?
Background: About a month, ago my little guy lost his lunch box. He brought it to school and then when he went to grab it at the end of the day it was gone. I sent him into school the next day and told him to check the lunch room and his sisters lunch bucket because the lunch box had her name on it (his original box broke). He looked and couldn’t find it. So I went in and checked every single lunch bucket in the school and the lost and found and it was nowhere to be found. I told him that someone probably accidentally took it home and it would arrive back any day. After about two weeks we gave up, it didn’t look like it was ever coming back.
Today, I had to drop something off for a little girl in second grade. One of my friends saw me in the hall and said “hey I saw daphne’s lunch box (eamon’s lost box) in the lost and found in the cafeteria.” I thanked her and said that we had been looking for it. I headed right to the cafeteria and sure enough there it was.
Fast forward 15 minutes. School is out and I’m waiting in the front hall with the lunch box for the kids. When they finally got there I say to both of them “look what I found in the cafeteria, isn’t it weird that it showed up?” To that, the custodian came over to us and told us that he had found the lunch box in the front bushes when he was putting a cover on one of the air conditioners. I was shocked. I had always thought that someone accidentally took it home.
Now I have visions of some kid, upon realizing he/she had grabbed the wrong lunch box, just tossing it into the bushes. Who does that? And boy would I kill my kid if they did that.
At least we have our lunch box back, yeah for us!
February 4, 2010 @ 8:12 pm
Today’s question is: Is it ok to pass judgement on someone that you think is doing something wrong?
Background: The real question is, am I as bad as the guy doing the deed just because I pass judgement on him?
As I’ve stated before our school seems to be filled with many parents that appear to think they (and their children) are more important than the rest of us. Of course this is my perception, and as we all know, perception is reality.
For the last couple of weeks there is this fellow who parks his vehicle in the public alley (that he does not live in) while he gets his child from school. He pulls into the alley, just past the sidewalk and puts on his ‘hazards’. I’ve seen him park there at least 10 times in the last three weeks. Interestingly enough, a block away there is plenty of legal parking. Parking that isn’t blocking people from getting into their alley or blocking the garbage man from doing his work. 1 block away.
Here’s a picture of him parked in his favorite spot one day:
So, a couple of days in the last week the guy who owns the car was actually lollygagging out in front of school for at least 10 minutes after the bell rang. He lollygagged while his car was parked like this, blocking anyone who lived there from passing by. He was not at all in a hurry to get to his car and get it out of the way. I sort of wonder what his kids think when they get in the car, do they think this is a regular parking spot? Will they grow up doing the same exact thing?
The thing is, this guy owns a restaurant in our little town and watching him park in this alley practically everyday makes me not want to patronize it. Is that wrong?
Am I as bad as him because I find what he does so not right?
February 4, 2010 @ 12:15 am
Today’s question is: Why do some people find themselves more important than the rest of the people on the planet?
Background: I walk my dog to school many days. Walking the dog, means I can’t stand on the school property. I typically wait for the kids directly across the street, where I get the pleasure of seeing people at their driving/parking best. Let’s just say I should have my camera with me more often. About a month ago I snapped this with my mobile phone:
This lady is clearly covering half the cross walk, and because of the snow piled up on the walk, there is very little (and a little slippery at that) space to get into the street. Not to mention that in order to get out of this spot she’s going to have to back up, possibly running over a kid. Now, I did say something to her (I don’t always say something) about how she’s parked in the crosswalk and what makes her kid more important, exactly, than all the kids that are going to use that cross walk. As the times frequently show, she completely ignored me, went to get her child and backed out (almost running over a kid) to get to her next, very important I’m sure, destination.
Dang, I find people so annoying sometimes.
January 4, 2010 @ 10:40 pm
Today’s question is: Why is it so difficult to make one quick phone call or send a quick email?
Background: As if you
don’t already know, I have two kids that do not eat wheat because of health reasons. Our school district simply will not change their birthday treat policy, apparently because they sent out a survey (general survey, only available online) in which 65% of the people had no problem with the way food is handled in the classroom. Now, that 65% sounds like a lot right? Of course it does, that is until you know that only a mere 20% of the population took the survey. So what does that mean? I think it means about 11% of the population is perfectly fine with things status quo, but is that significant? I don’t think so.
Anyway, aside from the fact that I am opposed to the treat in the classroom (for more reasons than just my kids wheat thing), I’m one with it. I contact the teachers and make sure they know I will happily supply something for my child that is as close as possible to the days treat (I prefer fresh or fresh frozen treats for more reasons than I care to get into right now).
So today, my oldest girl comes home and says it was someone’s birthday today. I said “oh really, what did they bring?” Thinking how nice it was of that parent to include my girl and the other kid that can’t eat the wheat. She says “oh they brought cupcakes and Daniel and I sat there and watched them all eat it.”
So seriously, how flippin’ hard is it to send me an email or leave me a voice message to let me know everyone is going to be chowing down on cupcakes at the end of the day? I’m steaming, I’m so pissed about it. Seriously, how hard is it?
At least the teacher was nice enough not to chow down on his cupcake until the bell rang, but my girl says, chow down he did.
September 8, 2009 @ 4:18 pm
