If you read news online you’ve probably already seen a report of the Michigan woman who won a $1 million lottery jackpot in September but continues to collect $200 in food stamps. What gets me is that she isn’t remorseful. She didn’t even try to play dumb. She just brushed it off as if it must be okay because she hadn’t been cut off yet. It’s sad that there are really people this stupid in the world. It also goes to show that we have become a society lacking in basic morals, good sense, and accountability. Why didn’t she take it upon herself to report her change in income? Oh, because she still has no job and two houses. Moron.
Category: Friday WTF?
Friday WTF?: I Know This is Texas, But…
If you’ve seen my posts on Twitter or Facebook then you probably already know I’m a Texan, my husband is a gun owner, and I’m not ashamed of either. However, I’m first and foremost a mom who is usually very paranoid about the safety of my daughters.
On Monday there was a horrible tragedy up in Ohio where an alleged student shot four of his classmates. It broke my heart to read the news posts and I hugged my girls a little harder when they got home from school.
On Tuesday a boy in Texas pointed a loaded gun at a classmate in the lunch line.
So know I want to know, what the hell is going on? Why are children resorting to such violence to let their thoughts be known? Back in my day we would just beat the shit out of each other on the playground. What are we teaching our children that makes them feel guns are the answer to solve their perceived problems? I don’t know about anyone else, but given the choice I would rather know my child got into a fist fight than had to dodge a bullet.
Friday WTF?: It’s a School, Not a Dating Service!
Yet another teacher was in the news on Thursday for having an “inappropriate relationship” with a student. What boggles my mind is this was an eighth grade teacher, putting her students in the 13-15 year range. Okay, I don’t care how early puberty hits, there is no 15 year old on the planet that would get me hot and bothered. How in the fuck can these teachers, men and women who are sworn to teach our children, look at them one day and not see a child before them?
When we saw the bit on the news my husband said, “What the fuck? It’s not like they can’t go to a bar or jump online and find someone their own age?”
Is it just too easy? Do these teachers who have broken such a sacred rule spend too much time with our kids? It’s not like they don’t know it’s wrong. At what point do they start seeing these kids as potential adult flings rather than the children they are? I just can’t wrap my head around it.
Now, I have two teenage daughters, one in high school and one in middle school. I’ll admit I’ve done double-takes before on a couple of their teachers, but NEVER their classmates. I’ll joke with them about who is cute and who isn’t, but I’m JOKING. When I look around at boys below twenty, that’s just what I see…BOYS. And they’re strangers, not children I’ve watched age over a school year. Not kids I’ve learned the bad habits of and know their parents’ names.
It’s getting to the point where home schooling is the rule rather than the exception. It seems the only way to keep our children safe from predators.
Friday WTF?: Can’t You Keep it to Yourself?
I used to think it was just me. Like, maybe I have one of those faces that makes people want to share every little tidbit of their lives with me. However, after the last couple of years of being steadily online and suffering the same phenomenon, I just don’t know. People love to share with me. In person it’s usually just me, but online it’s the whole world. When I worked, I was in a customer service position and though I wasn’t a bartender, or psychiatrist, I often felt I should be paid as one. Rarely a day went by that I didn’t learn some seriously personal information about a complete stranger. Why?! I don’t know. People just like to tell me things.
Online it’s even worse. Facebook already tells us everyone’s ages, birthdays, and locations. I can discover favorite foods, TV shows, and sports teams. However, the culture of over-sharing created by online social networks now has me going through emotional upheaval daily. Every single day someone out there gives me bad news. Death, illness, some form of loss. It’s never ending. There are plenty of jokes and good news announcements too. I’m just curious as to why we all share so much of ourselves with people we will never meet face-to-face. Is it the promise of anonymity? Does that make us feel safer? I guess so. I’m guilty of making pretty personal announcements from time to time too, but the really gut-wrenching things, ya’ll will never know.
Friday WTF?: Moms Pay Attention!
I wear many hats in life but first and foremost am a mother. So, when I see stories like the video of the little girl nearly being kidnapped in Walmart it really strikes a nerve. I’m not like many people who watched the news clip and thought, oh what a brave little girl. In fact, my initial reaction was, what a fucking stupid ass mom! The news anchor first said the mom was just a couple of aisles over, then later mentions the mom was shopping for fruit and left her seven-year old in the toy aisle. I’ve been to many Walmarts and can testify that the fruit is nowhere near the toy aisle. As a matter of fact, in most locations it’s on the other side of the store since food and non-food items are separated. Now, when I was little it might have been okay to leave a seven year-old on one side of a big-ass store like Walmart all alone. But those days are gone and have been for some time. What mother doesn’t know there are plenty of sick fucks in the world willing to victimize our children? So, I want to know if this woman is going to be charged with neglect, because leaving her daughter alone for any length of time in this situation was just plain stupid.
Friday WTF?: A Prostitute by Any Other Name…
And here’s another attempt at me trying to do a weekly blog thing. So, every Friday I’ll come up with something that completely boggles my mind for Friday WTF?
I have over a thousand followers on Twitter but they always come to me slowly. Because of that, I’m able to wade through them one at a time and check them out before deciding on whether to follow back. One of my most recent followers brought to light something I hadn’t really thought about before. In this day and age do men really still have to pay for sex? I ask this because if even a quarter of the spam I receive is based in any type of reality, there are plenty of people out there willing to have sex with total strangers at a moment’s notice…for free.
The follower I speak of lists herself as an International Escort and Elite Companion. Oookay. Now, I’m not knocking her gig. Hell, if I could charge the prices she has listed just for the initial meet and greet, I’d do it in a heartbeat. What gets me is, Why? Why would any man, obviously rich by her price lists, be willing to pay a woman for her time knowing it’s nothing more than that? I mean, I can understand the whole business transaction – no emotional attachment aspect to a point, but come on. Today’s women are a hell of a lot more in the know about sex, sexual freedom, and what men really want than we were a decade and more ago. In my opinion, it’s easier for a businessman to meet a woman and be up front about wanting a sexually based relationship, that might go nowhere, today than it was in the past. Am I wrong? Am I being totally naive about how women think? I’ve been in a committed relationship for sixteen years. That means I was never a single “adult”. My late teen years were lonesome but not much, so I’ve never really had to swim through the dating pool.
She also mentions men spending time away from their lives of things like being a husband to be with her. Really? Is an affair really worth thousands of dollars right out of the gate? That not only appalls but completely mystifies me. I’m thinking it would be cheaper to get a divorce and find the woman you actually want to have sex with rather than meet this chic, who is also meeting God knows how many others, from time to time. But that’s just my female logical brain working here.
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