I'm glad you don't help with her homework

[customersruinmylife]

The school runs an after hours homework class. It's ran by a couple of teachers, who help kids who struggle to complete their work. It is a brilliant class and a lot of kids attend.

I was at the desk, and, like all my other stories, it starts with me buzzing a parent in. A mother.

Me: Hi there, are you here to pick up from the homework class?
M: Uhhh like, yeah, I am.

She spoke like a teenager, and was smacking some bubble gum in her mouth as she talked to me.

M: Do you like, live here or something?
Me: Live here?
M: Well, yeah, like, you know, every time I come to pick my daughter up, you're the one who like, lets me in.
Me: Well that is my job.
M: Like every DAY? Don't you like, get a day off?
Me: Yes. It's called the weekend.
M: Oh...so that's why they call it the weekend

She walked away.

Yeesh

[Sapphire Silk]

I dare not say more.

[Elspeth]

*starts putting up caution signs around the puddle on the floor* Careful my brain just leaked out of my head after reading this. I don't want anyone to slip.

there are no words.

[AtDIelement]

Did you see the light bulb go off in her head?

Then explode?

[lordlundar]

You sure she's not in the same grade as her daughter?

[MoonCat]

I hope she wasn't a product of that same school.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

You sure she's not in the same grade as her daughter?

Sadly, she could have been in a lower grade than her daughter.

Either way, it's pretty pathetic

[terakhan]

I fear for the future of the child. The 'parent' not understanding the concept of working or weekends.... just another reason I like the idea of parenting licenses.

[South Texan]

Well, at least the daughter is going to, like, learn stuff. For sure!

[Betweenshades]

I think we understand why her kid wants to stay at school longer...

[Becks]

Reading that caused me to feel pain.

[ShadowBall]

I have a feeling Mommy's "job" involves her sitting on her ass collecting "free" money from the taxpayers, hence the notion of a work week and a weekend being so foreign to her. Well, at least the kid will grow up with peers who, like totally understand her talking all smart-like and her and her mom can, like, totally be BFFs and stuff.

These are the kinds of people who are in charge of the lives of others and who are raising the next generation that will become future neurosurgeons. Bet you're excited. I'm so glad I'm so tired right now because, were I more alert, I may have become part of the brain-splodey crowd.

[NateTheChops]

Wow. I always thought the abuse of the term "like" was a purely American thing. Learn something new...

[EricKei]

abuse of the term "like" .

There's a radio show I listen to that has a "4 like/ya know" limit -- if a caller uses more than four of <terms such as like/ya know> as "verbal commas" in a single call, the hosts hang up immediately. An exception is made for using them as actual *words*, instead.

[Mystic]

You should have offered her a seat for $20 a session in the classroom.