'Snow' Days SUCK!

[MiddleofNowhere]

And today, by 'snow', I mean temperatures so farking cold your skin BURNS when you step outside. So, henceforth, most administrators at local schools decided to call off school today ('snow' day) as to ensure the safety of all little ones headed to school so that they wouldn't turn into little popsicles. I understand - 'it takes a village...blather, blather, blather'.

So, imagine your a Midwestern Entitled Mom. You're stuck with the little darlings at home today rather than shipping them off to have tantrums for their underpaid, underappreciated teachers. What ever shall you do?

#1 Plan a day of fun inside - making crafts, cooking, watching movies, playing games?

OR

#2 Load up the little kids and dump them off unattended without proper outerwear (say coats and mittens) at my mall?

If you guessed number 2 - you win and all expense paid trip to the third level of hell - My work today where we were expected to babysit these little hellions as young as 10(!) WITHOUT PARENTAL UNIT ANYWHERE IN ATTENDANCE!

To all those entitled mom's - a big EFFFFFFFFFF YOUUUUUUUU! And if it weren't for the fact that in your amazing act of parental neglect of insisting on proper clothes - one little girl about 13 was in a tank top and flip flops when it was NEGATIVE 11 DEGREES FARENHEIT! - we would have kicked the rotten little beggars out!

Some people are just ignorant turds.

[wagegoth]

Why weren't the police called?

[MiddleofNowhere]

Why no po-po?

Good question, but essentially, as long as they aren't STEALING anything, we have to put up with them - otherwise our very friendly cops who have to come and take the actual bad buys might not be so happy to see us.

And unfortunately, as far as I know, you can't arrest someone for being stupid or lazy.

Le sigh...

[JLRodgers]

I was thinking along the lines of child endangerment or child abandonment.... types of things, at least for some of them.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

AFAIK, the kids in my city were in school today, even though kids in surrounding districts had the day off, and probably most, if not all the local private schools were closed too. It's so cold here, if you were to spit in the air and try to catch it, you'd have an ice cube banging against the back of your throat.

But otherwise on snow days we do sometimes get wayward kids who are in the store just to kill time or because their parents dropped them there.

The biggest problems are on half days, when kids from the junior high about 6 blocks away descend on the clearance swamp just to raise hell, steal and be fucktards.

[Amina516]

An unattended 10 yr old in summer clothes in -11 degree weather warrants a call to social services........

Those moms need to be smacked upside their head.

[blas]

There were schools planning on being closed today as of 5:00 pm last night. It was -32 or something last night where I live. Tonight they are predicting as cold as -45. Maybe two "snow" days in a row for the kiddies?

It's been so cold the past 3 days that I had to buy some on-the-go sized Lock DeIcer because my ignition was frozen, I couldn't get into my apartment without pretty much having to police-style kick the door in, and none of my car doors will open (unlocked!). These handy little things are great. But they don't last long....just a half hour after I went tanning and had de-iced my door lock, it was refrozen and I had to use it again. Now at all times I will have one in my purse until winter is over.

[dendawg]

It also couldn't hurt to have WD-40 on hand. It repels water.

[blas]

If it's not intolerably cold, I WD40 squeaky belts....when it gets cold my car likes to squeak...but I mean, this is so cold that it was no fun digging in my purse for my lipstick sized DeIcer.

It was so cold I didn't even want to put Heet into my tank or anymore De-Icer stuff for my washer fluid. I will do that Saturday when it's warmer.

[PepperElf]

I was thinking along the lines of child endangerment or child abandonment.... types of things, at least for some of them.

that's what i'm thinking... a call to CPS stating that the kids were left there ... and they are dressed in such inappropriate clothing that you feel they might get frostbite

[RetailWorkhorse]

My work today where we were expected to babysit these little hellions as young as 10(!) WITHOUT PARENTAL UNIT ANYWHERE IN ATTENDANCE!

*Perks*

MINION! FETCH ME MY PAINTBALL GUN!

[tamezin]

I was thinking along the lines of child endangerment or child abandonment.... types of things, at least for some of them.

I am not sure where this is located, but where I am in the midwest, there isn't a standard defined 'age' that a child can be left alone. It is all very subjective based on each childs level of maturity.

For example, a responsible 10 year old can be left unsupervised with no problems, but you can get into serious trouble if you leave a child of 13 who has been proven to irresponsible at home alone. So I am guessing, if they aren't stealing or otherwise being a pest, than that are showing a level of maturity greater than most teenagers or young adults.

[Geek King]

*Perks*

MINION! FETCH ME MY PAINTBALL GUN!

</Jeeves Voice>

Cetainly, Sir! Would you be wanting the Forbrush Thwack! accurate-to-one-thousand-yards-Barret-Sniper-look-a-like or the sawed off Shotgun Suixie Multi-Ball Crotch Blaster Special? And I assume Sir would like the ammunition kept in the freezer for...erm...freshness?

[Merriweather]

. It's so cold here, if you were to spit in the air and try to catch it, you'd have an ice cube banging against the back of your throat.

Our local news actually showed someone in the midwest (we aren't as bad out here in the Pacific Northwest right now) take a cup of HOT water, and throw the contents into the air - it turned to a snowy/icy/powdery substance, no longer liquid, before it hit the ground.

To all you guys out there in that kinda cold, I offer cyber hot chocolate and wish I could do more.

Merriweather

[Becks]

a cup of HOT water, and throw the contents into the air - it turned to a snowy/icy/powdery substance, no longer liquid, before it hit the ground.

I am under the impression that hot water freezes faster.