B.C. moms caught smoking ‘celebratory joint’ in school zone after dropping kids off for first day

[cupper3]

Originally Posted by fred44

More proof that teachers are underpaid. If teachers were smart, they would strike all over the country and threaten parents with keeping their kids all year and deal with educating them at home. How long do you think that would last?! Parents would beg schools to take them back and give teachers anything they wanted.

Teachers in my jurisdiction make just under $100K and over that if benefits are added in. That is well paid in most peoples eyes, and far above the average person's income.

[GrandviewGloria]

Originally Posted by GregW

I always though that a small bottle of something alcoholic was "Momma's little helper". I guess a joint is smaller and more effective.

Au Contraire! According to the Rolling Stones (back before they got sucky), it was "Little Yellow Pills".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCD3Wa5RvjE

I'm in the Deep South a lot. You get force-fed oldies, everywhere, there. Horrible, obnoxious, lovey-dovey oldies... The entire region is stuck in the Seventies. You NEVER hear songs that are actually good, like Mother's Little Helper.

As for the Pothead Moms in the story... My Mom was a Pothead. She probably inherited the capacity to develop an IQ high-enough for medical school. But she was a pothead by age 14. So, her brain stopped developing in Eighth Grade, and she became a hooker, instead of a doctor. (Great-grammaw caught her drunk and stoned, and "turned her out", that very weekend. 'Negotiable Affection' was the "fambly bidnis", but mom had been earmarked for greater things. She blew her chance, though.)

I have fleeting memories of "daddies" (not my 'Real Daddy'...), whom Mom would latch onto. But with her Marijuana Psychosis growing worse with every puff, she couldn't keep a meal ticket for very long. We'd get ensconced in a "Fine BRICK home!" just long enough for me to briefly experience air conditioning, lovely Sunset Pecan Masonite wall paneling (deliciously cool and smooth to touch), and Hi-Lo Sculptured Shag carpet, before we were back in that shack with my Grandmother and Great-grandmother. And there I'd be, having to remember, all over again, that I couldn't scoot my butt across that raw board floor, unless I wanted splinters.

Inntyway, I grew up, got married, and moved to our pitiful state's Sorry-excuse-for-a-big-city. We joined a big gym. It was run, OK, for years, and then the Managing Partner sold his interest, leaving the other partners, supposed "Christian Businesspersons", to run the place. I was oblivious to all of this, being too busy gossiping, in the Cardio Rooms, with Psych pros from various local facilities, and various swingers, about which loudly homophobic bodybuilders at that gym had been ----ed up the ---, yet, and which ones were still 'latent'.

But I did notice that the place was going to Hell in a handbasket. Among years of horrible decisions and oversights, a few things stand out. They put in basketball courts. You can't do that, in the South. Who in their right mind, would even think you could? Suddenly, an element was attracted to the place, who sent 'Society Ladies' scurrying. "I had to QUIT! (quipped a cardboard magnate's trophy wife) Now, that gym has all these new members who look like WELFARE RECIPIENTS!!!"

And then, somebody had the brilliant idea to make members leave their keys on a pegboard, if they wanted a towel/locker. The pegboard was within easy reach of anyone standing at the counter. Well, being the devious vixen I am, I scrounged-up a bunch of keys-to-nowhere, and put them on a Rolls Royce keychain. When those disappeared (fast!!!), I put some more, on a broken Gucci keychain. After THOSE got stolen, I put my newest fake keys on my OTHER broken Gucci keychain. About this time, the fancy-schmantzy new remote keys were being introduced.

Lots of the 'Basketball Guests' were now grabbing keys, hitting the remotes, and finding cars to steal, with ease. Nobody at the desk was stopping the entry of all these unregistered guests. Actual paying members were quitting, right and left (particularly those who'd lost cars).

On top of all this, somebody in Management signed on with a "marketing specialist", who proposed a brilliant scheme, to lure-in new members (to replace those who'd fled, no doubt). I noticed that the back of my Kroger receipt was a coupon, for a week's free membership at my gym. WHO, IN THEIR RIGHT MIND, would agree to such a thing? You can get a Kroger receipt, even if you're paying with assistance vouchers!!!! WHO, IN THEIR RIGHT MIND, WOULD NOT REALIZE THIS?

Even worse, the other big part of the marketing scheme was BILLBOARDS: billboards, announcing the free memberships... Not so bad: right? Just put the billboards in upscale areas, where qualified members tend to live. Smart!

Maybe that would have been smart. But the billboards ALL went up in bad areas - areas our Janitor forbade me to enter, "Because they're war zones!" Our janitor's hobby was listening to the PoPo "scanner". He knew, from listening to his scanner, what the really bad areas were. These were the areas where billboard rents were lowest. These were the areas where criminals were being encouraged to look at the receipts their babies' mommas were bringing home from the grocery (goods paid for by food stamps), to get their free memberships to the ritzy gym on the good side of the metro, where there were all kinds of good things to steal.

The West side of town suddenly DID appear at our gym, all sorts of good things DID get stolen, and a new wave of legit members cancelled their memberships. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would let this happen, to the best gym in town? Who, with half a brain, would not have seen this coming?

And what does this have to do with Pothead Moms, anyway? Well, I'll tell you what. I've been hearing from a hottie from that gym, who's endured years of come-ons from one of the "Christian Businesspersons" who ran the gym into the ground. She's a "mom". She (reportedly) likes to go to concerts with her daughter, smoke weed, and pick up young guys. Makes her "feel young!".

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND? Try STONED mind.... Years of astonishingly stupid decisions are to be expected, from someone who's been partaking of a stupefying drug. Pot is a stupefying drug. It makes you so stupid things.

And THAT is what's wrong with sitting in a parking lot, toking, when you're a "mom".

[GJJG2012]

Mostly I'm saying testing methods that call any trace of cannabis use to be impairment don't make sense & are unfair. They have been using testing methods that can detect traces of inactive metabolites that can be stored in body fat for weeks, even though there is no impairment beyond a few hours at most. Some places will be testing for traces of cannabis from within the last few hours, but it isn't necessarily impairment, anymore than one would be impaired if they drank 1 beer 3 hours ago. Best wishes.

Originally Posted by Larry Caldwell

Are you really trying to defend some stoner who can't even wait to get home to do a spliff, or some alcoholic who has to have a brewski between her legs when she drops the kiddies off at school? If Mommie has to get wasted, let her do it on the sidewalk, not behind the wheel.

[newdixiegirl]

Originally Posted by JerseyGirl415

More like if you don't want them home all summer, don't have them in the first place. It's common knowledge that kids are off in the summer in most disctricts and states. If your kids are so exhausting or annoying to be around or obnoxious and not well behaved then you're probably a person who shouldn't have had them in the first place.

My goodness. You're quite confident with that opinion. I used to have pretty black-and-white ideas of parenting, too. And then I had kids.

[skylar0201]

Originally Posted by Unsettomati

No, you don't.

There hasn't been a time in your life, or for many centuries before that, that some parents didn't cry when sending their kids off to school. There also hasn't been a time in your life, or again for many centuries before, that parents weren't using some sort of mind-altering substance.

It really is astonishing that people believe in a fairy-tale yesterday when this supposedly didn't happen...

I completely agree.

I was going to say that the kids haven't changed, and neither have the mom's, it's just society. Not to get off-topic here, but it's like the folks that say kids today feel entitled, and don't want to work or go to school, and live off mom and dad till they're in their 30's, and listen to out-of-control music all day, that when they were kids, it wasn't like that.

When we grow up, we think the current generation feels "entitled"--the over-40 crowd views this of the current kids of today--now myself, I think most of them have just given up, they see that a college education doesn't get you a job ( back when it used to, ) but it does get them a LOT of debt! and the cost of living everywhere practically, is out of control, no wonder they want to live at home.

When I was a kid ( in the 80's growing up ) my parents thought my generation was the entitled group--even though I was expected at the age of 18 to be either 1. in the military, or 2. in college, or 3. have a job somewhere. My grandparents told me it was my parents who were entitled, etc, etc.

Anyway, as for the pot-smoking moms, I don't think they made a wise choice ( to each their own when it comes to smoking a joint ) but doing so in the school zone was a bit much, but I feel having a bar in a school zone ( yes, I've seen them in many spots!! ) is just as bad.

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by skylar0201

I completely agree.

I was going to say that the kids haven't changed, and neither have the mom's, it's just society. Not to get off-topic here, but it's like the folks that say kids today feel entitled, and don't want to work or go to school, and live off mom and dad till they're in their 30's, and listen to out-of-control music all day, that when they were kids, it wasn't like that.

When we grow up, we think the current generation feels "entitled"--the over-40 crowd views this of the current kids of today--now myself, I think most of them have just given up, they see that a college education doesn't get you a job ( back when it used to, ) but it does get them a LOT of debt! and the cost of living everywhere practically, is out of control, no wonder they want to live at home.

When I was a kid ( in the 80's growing up ) my parents thought my generation was the entitled group--even though I was expected at the age of 18 to be either 1. in the military, or 2. in college, or 3. have a job somewhere. My grandparents told me it was my parents who were entitled, etc, etc.

Anyway, as for the pot-smoking moms, I don't think they made a wise choice ( to each their own when it comes to smoking a joint ) but doing so in the school zone was a bit much, but I feel having a bar in a school zone ( yes, I've seen them in many spots!! ) is just as bad.

I haven't seen a bar in a school zone since the 1970s. There was a bar on every corner, so you couldn't get away from it.

[skylar0201]

Originally Posted by Gerania

I haven't seen a bar in a school zone since the 1970s. There was a bar on every corner, so you couldn't get away from it.

Green River, WY. Not sure it is still in business, but Lakeway Liquors ( also a drive-thru liquor store ) was across the street from Roosevelt Elementary School in the 20 mph school zone.