Boo You!
A lot to talk about tonite….I got DWTS….School politics…..Screaming lady at Walmart…..there’s lots to say! But I am so tired, I don’t really feel like getting thru all that. But I will!
Let’s start with one of my fav shows, DWTS. It’s no secret I harbor a deep, pure love for Kurt Warner. I have pictures of him taped up in various places…at work…on my computer desk…at one time I had one on the refrigerator with the ones of my kids.(my husband made me take down the one on the fridge) I think he is something special. While the athletes on the show generally do really well, you can tell he isn’t a “dancer”, he’s a quarterback, but he is so charming that I can’t take my eyes off him on the dance floor. He’s got Anna the grumpy Russian (her words, not mine) as a partner and I like her as well. SIDEBAR: She was also Chuck Liddell’s partner a few seasons ago and I kinda have the hots for him too!) I think Kurt’s doing pretty good and I hope he and Bristol the Pistol stay on a while because frankly, they are the only two I really like. I like the Disney kid too, but I don’t really care much about him. The Situation….I think not. Talk about over exposure. Enough already!
Okay, what’s the next subject….crazy women at Walmart….so there I was yesterday, cruising the very back aisle at WM , looking at the cute baby clothes they have out now, and BTW…where was the cute camo footed baby coats 10 years ago when I had to choose between baby blue and yellow..when I hear this woman talking as loudly as she possible can without screaming, to another women standing there perusing the books. My first reaction was to just ignore her, but as I was going there myself to pickup the newest edition of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book for my son, it was extremely hard to ignore someone speaking through a megaphone. (not really, but it was loud!) She was being really ugly and mean to the one looking at the books but was standing like 20 feet away, and I was in between them. Come to find out, the younger one looking at books was evidentially mentally handicapped and the Loud One was trying to convince her to leave by threatening to get the WM Security to escort her out to the car. The Young One looked genuinely scared to death of the Loud One, and I was starting to get a bit concerned for her safety. After figuring out in 5 seconds that the new Wimpy Kid book wasn’t there, I stayed put to observe this little scene. Finally, a WM security person or for all I know it was a checker, came and told the girl that if she came with her “aunt” then she had to leave with her “aunt”. The Loud One ran off to check out, leaving her “niece” with the WM person and about 5 people came up and told her how mean she was being to her niece. SHe finally took her up front to the registers to wait for The Loud one to finish, but this scene stuck with me all nite, as well today and I can’t shake the feeling that I should have reported this. I felt so sorry for the Young One that she was stuck with someone like that as a caretaker. How does someone live with themselves treating a handicapped person, a family member at that, that way. I felt like I was on 20/20 What Would You DO, and I think I failed. I decided by the time I got out to the car, that if I ever witnessed something like that again, I am just going to call 911. Maybe it was nothing, but maybe this poor girl is abused and I didn’t do anything to stop it. Never again.
Okay, on to School Politics….my daughter is a Jr in High School this year in a very small town. I’ve mostly lived in small towns my whole life so I know how things work. My kids have gone to the same school since KG, and things haven’t changed much since then. Their school used to be a really nice place with caring teachers and coaches, and a community that rallied the sports teams and such. The community hasn’t changes much but the school has gone down hill fast. Cat has always been involved in one or more sports programs each year since 7th grade, and if do say so, she’s quite the athlete. That doesn’t mean I think she’s the superstar of each and every game, nor do I think she deserves more game time than others, but I do think that all the children should be treated equally, no matter who their parents are. But instead of being treated fairly, some kids are basically cut down because of a kiss ass coach. So worried about keeping a job, because our school keeps running off all the good teachers and coaches, she’s more focused on kissing ass than coaching kids. SHe’s focused on 3 particular kids who are by all means, great athletes too, but have recently grown what we like to call in my family growing up, the big head. They don’t have to work as hard as the others, because they know they are guaranteed a starting spot on the team no matter what, because the coach thinks that by kissing the asses of these parents, she just might get her contract renewed for next year. Doesn’t matter that we have been losing, or that the girls have started turning on each other DURING the games. Doesn’ t matter that she isn’t smart enough to figure out that a team full of teenage girls needs someone to step in and let them know that the jealousy and bitchiness won’t be tolerated. THese are girls….they are bitches. What do you get when you have 12 bitches together non stop every day of the week?? Hurt feelings, fights, constant bickering and competition for attention. It’s just how we girls are…(this never happens with boys) So while they are competing against each other, the other team is kicking our asses! I’m no coach, but I was an athlete in school, as well as been involved in my daughter’s sports since she was 10. I know what to expect from a coach and I have raised my daughter to understand that a coach has to be hard on their athletes to get the best from them. But to single out one or two kids and scream and yell and withhold playing time from them tends to beat down a kid. THey start doubting themselves and their abilities as an athlete and take all the fun out of it. It also influences the other girls on the team to treat these few just like the coach is treating them. Being a coach doesn’t give someone the right to be a bully. Boo to you coach, here’s to hoping I won’t see you next year.
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