Twilight Zone
I'm bruised and battered after a long long weekend of moving furniture and boxes. The kids are having fun in the new house. It helps that we visited the place almost every day during construction so there is very little adjustment for them. I'm actually having trouble sleeping because of all the new sounds in and around the house. Yes, I'm one of those listeners who hears every barking dog, squealing tire, and creaking floor and must get up to investigate.
Last week we went to the Open House at my son's school. The initial greeting from the principal was via the school's closed-circuit TV system. Two minutes into the viewing, we had one of those unbelievable Twilight Zone moments that just blow my mind. Okay, maybe I have a really thin skin when it comes to manners and respect, so I might have been the only parent in the room with open mouth and gawking eyes. Two minutes into the speech, a mom's cell phone rang. Instead of simply silencing it, as most people would, she actually answered it. And then, here's the really amazing part, she stood up and walked to the front of the room right next to the TV that we were watching. She stood there and carried on a conversation for a full minute. "Oh yes, I'm at Austin's open house. Uh-huh, right now. Yes, we're watching the principal on TV. Oh, I don't know, we'll probably be done around 7:30. What are you doing right now? Sounds great. Want to come by the house later? Okay, well... How's everything been going?"
Blah blah blah... it went on. She now had a room full of about 40 parents watching her instead of the principal. I was about to stand up and throw a textbook at her big fat head, but I think the person she was talking to had the good sense to say goodbye.
You know the first thing I did after the Open House was to find out her son's name and tell my son not to play with that kid! We'll know where he learned his bad manners from.
Last week we went to the Open House at my son's school. The initial greeting from the principal was via the school's closed-circuit TV system. Two minutes into the viewing, we had one of those unbelievable Twilight Zone moments that just blow my mind. Okay, maybe I have a really thin skin when it comes to manners and respect, so I might have been the only parent in the room with open mouth and gawking eyes. Two minutes into the speech, a mom's cell phone rang. Instead of simply silencing it, as most people would, she actually answered it. And then, here's the really amazing part, she stood up and walked to the front of the room right next to the TV that we were watching. She stood there and carried on a conversation for a full minute. "Oh yes, I'm at Austin's open house. Uh-huh, right now. Yes, we're watching the principal on TV. Oh, I don't know, we'll probably be done around 7:30. What are you doing right now? Sounds great. Want to come by the house later? Okay, well... How's everything been going?"
Blah blah blah... it went on. She now had a room full of about 40 parents watching her instead of the principal. I was about to stand up and throw a textbook at her big fat head, but I think the person she was talking to had the good sense to say goodbye.
You know the first thing I did after the Open House was to find out her son's name and tell my son not to play with that kid! We'll know where he learned his bad manners from.
Permalink posted by Phil at 10:37 AM
3 Comments:
Oh my!
And I thougth the obnoxious mom at my daughter's school's open house bragging about her almost 5 year old knowing how to count to 100 was bad.
UGH! Some people......
Some people can be so rude. I had a mother answer her cell phone in the middle of our parent teacher conference last year. After answering it she asked me to just tell her the really important stuff about her kid's development so that she could rush off to work and ignore her kid some more. Some people just make you wonder.
The woman must be from Southern California!
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