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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
1. Post any good stories you have of someone minding your business, when they should have kept their noses out of it.
2. What is it about people that makes them so fucking nosy and meddlesome?
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2 stories (the second because it involves a gay couple who wanted to adopt!)
Take my 13 year old daughter and 2 friends to an all ages show at a very seedy punker club. They want to see the 2nd act of 4. The headliner is a band she hates/I hate and friends hate. The show is on Wednesday and the Mom of 1 friend says they have to be home by 11.
We see the first 3 bands and its 10:30 and time to go. My little sweetness is being a real shit, especially considering I'm the one who brings her and friends to shows like this, not friend's parents. in the crowd is a guy in his late 20's wearing a thin leather tie, like the Romantics look. He's with a date.
3rd band ends and I go to her and say "time to go." She start yeling about staying. Thin tie says "Geez dad, let her see the headliner." I want to say "fuck you, my 13 year old has enough sense to know they suck- its idiots like you that would stay to see them" and I want to hit him. But I don't. I say "Someday you will have a teen, and you'll remember this and realize you were an asshole." He says "no I won't I'll be cool then too!"
His reason was he was trying to impress his date.
Same child at 3, her Barbies all over the floor. A couple planning on adopting is over. I say "If you don't pick these up in the next 5 minutes, I'm throwing them away*." One prospective adoptive parents says "that's no way to get things done, watch this. Hey Kate, lets play a game and pick up these together!"
See he had read some theories but didn't realize what its like to have the reality of the kid. I don't want to be "helping" her. I want the toys picked up while I watch TV.
his reason is he'd read books but never played the game.
*and your kids will realize this is bullshit once they recognize the Barbies cost a few hundred bucks in total and you'd never throw that much away.
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