Oh let’s just continue the happy tone of my previous post shall we? I promise I’ll get back to myself soon…but I really must vent….

This morning while doing safety valet at school, which is basically directing a bunch of idiots parents who can’t follow instructions I got yelled at. Oh it was so lovely I tell you.

One woman left her kid off in the wrong spot. Happens all the time. Annoys me because what is so hard about understanding “pull all the way forward”. So traffic was backed all the way down the street. The kid seemed like she was having an issue…but I guess the issue was she was arguing with her mom about her seatbelt. Looked like she was having trouble getting her book bag out to me… So I went to the car to try to help her out and remind the mom to please pull forward. Well… that didn’t go over well. The woman then bellowed at me that her kid didn’t have her seatbelt on and she knew damn well she was supposed to pull forward. I smiled knowingly with a mother’s understanding and simply asked her “Ok.. well for next time, can you please pull forward all the way?” I guess my smile didn’t soothe her. Because she got really pissed at me and said “I am not pulling ANYWHERE when my kid isn’t their seatbelt”. If her anger had been a dagger, I’d be bleeding. Uh. Oh ok. But we are talking about going 5 miles an hour, pulling forward four car lengths and these are the rules you wicked witch…and you are role modeling for your kid who isn’t following the rules that they don’t have to do it when there is something else going on. You know… she unbuckled her seat belt before you stopped because SHE wanted to get out quickly. You stopped the car in the wrong place because you wanted to yell at her. Not much of a difference. Ok I didn’t say that…but I wanted to. So that was a lovely start to my day.

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