Say it here cause yo can't say it directly- the get it off your chest thread - Page 3

kayakmom · 04-01-2007, 12:07 AM

to the teachers who said academic 'doors are closed' to my son when he was 10. why don't you just look at him now!!

lspf72 · 04-01-2007, 01:03 AM

(To younger daughter) Please don't continue to ask me if you can invite friend "X" over to play. We've never had headlice in our home, and I'd like to keep it that way (sorry, but twice in one semester makes me a bit nervous)

calmom · 04-01-2007, 01:56 AM

OK, I'll skip the details, but I would just like to say, I told you so! to many, many people.

paying3tuitions · 04-01-2007, 02:10 AM

To the h.s. musical theater director, you cast for political reasons and everyone in town knew it. Your judgment was poor when you made girls wear embarassing chorus-girl costumes at age 14. You gave my kids one-line roles right through senior year, when their talent qualified them for lead roles in local community theater shows. As a juror in Twelve Angry Men, you staged my kid seated, with his back to the audience, for the entire production while the other eleven faced the crowd. I'm holding some complimentary tickets to my eldest's next off-broadway show but I'm not sending you any. When my D tours next June multi-city, I'm not going to put you on my email list. You cast to pay back faculty favors and to please powerful parents in town, but you left out a few who are now professional. You have a POOR eye for talent, and you also shouldn't have kept out that black student from playing a villager in Fiddler.

UCLAri · 04-01-2007, 02:16 AM

People in high school: See? I did manage to make something of myself.

Teacher in middle school who said I'd never do math at a college level: I've probably done math at a higher level than you did to become a math teacher. Stuff it.

Freaked out people on this site: Calm down. Life will go on, and you'll all rock. Seriously, stop worrying so much.

Countdown'sBegun · 04-01-2007, 04:55 AM

To everyone who's made comments through the years about how it's been easier on me because I have only one child. 1.) Mortgage is same whether I have one or a dozen. 2.)I would've liked to have more, initially, but was unable to after surgery at age 26. 3.) I've been a single parent AKA ONE INCOME. You have two incomes and 2-3 kids, but only one mortgage. 4.)Bet you wish you drove my car that had 216K miles on it before I had to retire it (note facetiousness) - and I see you getting a new one every couple of years. Yeah, I moved my kid to a private school that would challenge her and acknowledge her existence - unlike the public school in the neighborhood that told me when she was in 1st grade that "we don't want to create a Doogie Howser" when her IQ had to be extrapolated because it was off your chart and that in third grade on the first day of school didn't have her in a class because "somebody told us you'd moved." Thanks for bothering to try calling me to see. It felt really awesome for my 7 yr old to think the school didn't want her on the first day.

To my child's father - why are you surprised you have no relationship with her and mad that she doesn't want you at her graduation? When she lay dying in the hospital and she begged you to stay overnight, you told her you had to go home for pizza because it was your birthday and then you and your wife spent $$, time, for in vitro even though you weren't sure you're existing child was going to survive. Oh, and thanks for contributing not one dime to her schooling, ECs, college apps, not giving her Christmas presents, anything for her 18th birthday a few months ago, etc. because you were mad that she wasn't excited about the pregnancy BECAUSE SHE WAS TOO DARN ill to get out of bed -sick enough to miss a year and 1/2 of school, not be able to graduate with her original friends, etc. You're right - she was so self-absorbed, unlike her dad. <rolling eyes>

thumper1 · 04-01-2007, 07:35 AM

lspf72...ok...here's what *I* would have really wanted to say...to the parents of the kid with the headlice. "We would love to have your child over but the last two times she brought headlice with her."

bookworm · 04-01-2007, 10:27 AM

Countdown
You've been thru so much, my sympathies.
My S & bio-FA wouldn't recognize each other. I'd like to know just how hard it would have been to send a b/d card, or Xmas/Hannukah gift, or a congrats about college.

Dogwood · 04-01-2007, 10:51 AM

These comments are making me really sad. Reading your posts, I can't believe people could be that unkind to one another. I am so sorry that so many of you have had such bad experiences. Countdown's Begun - You must be so proud of your D. I don't blame her for not wanting her dad at her graduation.

mootmom · 04-01-2007, 10:52 AM

To that biological child of my relative:
I just decided to edit out my description of how you've broken his heart, but I'll leave you with the bottom line.

Three strikes, you're out, hon.

lspf72 · 04-01-2007, 11:34 AM

thumper-- They are such a nice family, but since their kids have had 2 reoccurrences of lice I've just gotten too squeamish...

lspf72 · 04-01-2007, 11:43 AM

Wow, countdown-- hang in there, and congrats for all you and your daughter have accomplished, with obviously little help. I wish the people in question could read these posts.

citygirlsmom · 04-01-2007, 12:02 PM

to my Ds middle school teachers:

When you said my D would amount to nothing and not go very far....what do you have to say now?

When you picked your faves in 6th grade and gave them everything- student concil, academic club, starring roles in plays where are you stars now?

When you made me cry because you yelled at my D for doing the right thing, i can see know how bitter and lonesome you are

When you picked your faves for contests in writing and rejected everyone elses work, who are the star writers now?

When you look at all the kids you disparaged and ignored, those kids are doing amazing things now, but for 3 years you never gave them a chance

And to the school principal, bet you have noticed I have never given a $$ of alumni or any other kind of donation, I save that for others

And lastly, to the moms of the mean girls....I am glad they have changed, but at the time you seemed proud of how they acted....

hayden · 04-01-2007, 12:21 PM

I'll lighten things up a bit, and describe something I would really like to do (but would, sigh, never do), rather than something I'd say.

Hey you with the shiny black BMW convertible. Notice how the parking lot gets pretty darn full every day at work? Have you also noticed that there is a custom - not a law, I grant you, but a custom - that people use one parking spot per car? And you park your BMW slanted across two spots. Pay extra for those spots? Thought not. Okay, this is what I'm gonna do. See this can of bright, garrish red spray paint ? SSsssssspppprrrishh.

Faline2 · 04-01-2007, 12:30 PM

To the seniors every year who check their rank every six weeks and are are in first or second rank in our HS, it is not really a winning game to drop out of all of the unweighted arts and extra curricular courses and to manipulate the system. Once you are in the 4.0 category with a bunch of others, building an interesting personality is also a factor in college admissions, and obsessing over tenths of decimals is just, unseemly.
My number 15 received more offers and better offers because of being a team player, having the big picture of life in his choices and because he understood that pursuing an artistic endeavor is its own reward.

apologies to you deserving vals and sals out there if your school's system is fair to all, but there is an annual reward for manipulating personalities in my locale.

Also, on another note. Yo Yellow Page business ads. I can't decipher where the alphabet is on my phone after age 50. Please post NUMBERS not letters in your business ads for those of us who don't text message.