I'm really on a roll today it seems. Let me spend a few moments enlightening you on the highlights of my day. I hadn't mentioned this before but I am playing Mr. Mom for two weeks since my wife started her new job and the kids still had two weeks left of school. Coming into it I was feeling pretty good. I figured I would get to spend a few hours extra with the kids each day at the very least.
Little did I know that being Mr. or Mrs. Mom is a royal pain in the posterior. The whole day is one argument or fit or complaint about one thing or the other. If there truly are living saints it would have to be those patient souls that can deal with all that without flinching and come out of the whole experience with a smile still on their faces and nary a bad word to be spoken. I am not one of these people but I do try to bite my tongue on a regular basis so they won't hear the rather expertly phrased and joined curses I have thrown together (in my mind...) for those other parents who will never make it to the Hall of Fame for parenting greats.
This particular rant is for those lovely individuals who really fuel the fire for my hate and discontent with people in general. I can understand being in a hurry and driving faster and a little more erratic than normal but I can't bring myself to understand, or forgive, those ruthless souls that will completely ignore the basic principles of queuing up to drop off and pick up your children.
Granted the school designs are generally flawed so people are really only taking advantage of the flaws they see. However, this is where common courtesy for your fellow parents would be a great idea. I know as well as most of us that there will always be these types of individuals that will take advantage of any perceived opportunity they can get. I've been known to do that as well. I'm not really talking about the person with the right sized vehicle moving past the line to slide into a space that was left along the walk. I actually don't even blame them as much as the stupid ass that couldn't scoot up just a little further to make better use of the curbside pickup system.
The parents that really will continue to receive my glares and a cautiously shown single digit value I believe they have in society. Sometimes not so cautiously...
The event that prompted this post was the blatant disregard for every other person that was shown by a mother today. There we were, all lined up as we do pretty much every day and what happens? This little sporty car with an overly tan midlife crisis victim driving, cell phone to her ear. (A little aside: To make matters worse, she's got to be in her late 30's or early 40's but she's wearing clothing more suitable to a 20's young single college student. All the power in the world to you if you have the body to pull it off. Time for a reality check in a major way if you don't. She didn't.) To continue the story, she proceeded to pass everyone, loop around the corner, double park and hold up several parents that had just gotten their children the officially acceptable method in order to wait for her little scantily clad 6th or 7th grader to run through the waiting cars to jump into her mother's vehicle. Without a word of apology or even the barely veiled attempt at such a thing she proceeded to pass up other vehicles that were attempting to pull away from the curb without the courtesy of acknowledging their turn signals or even their attempts to angle into her path.
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