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Okay. Let me start with this. I haven't done drugs, don't do drugs, and will probably never do drugs. If I caught one of my kids doing drugs, I'd ship them off to rehab so fast it would make their heads swim.
That being said, I was in the carpool line today. At the top of the school driveway, I noticed some dedicated mom handing out yard signs. I couldn't make out the message at first, but the closer she got to me, the better that I could tell it was a "Say No To Drugs!" yard sign as part of the schools' Anti-Drug Week.
So, this well-meaning woman gets to my car, and asks, "Would you like an Anti-Drug yard sign?" I think about it and say, "Why, no thank you." She looks at me for a second as if I've grown horns, and then says, "Are you sure?"
Once again, I say, "No, thanks."
Finally, she says, "Well, why not?"
I think for a minute, and say, "Well, it's bad for business, of course." With that, I roll up my window and move up in the carpool line. I look in my rearview mirror and she's at the window of another car, pointing at me.
Something tells me that I'm about to be included in all the local gossip as a potential drug lord in our prosperous neighborhood. Anybody else struggle with social pressure or the displays of public piety?
Oh, that I can live with... somehow... I was talking about the "looks" on the streets, the "disgusted" kids under 3 , and so forth.
Well, the disgusted kids are just another facet of the problem. Because they get told that smoking is unhealthy (which it is), but they also get carte blanche to tell every smoker they see that smoking is unhealthy (which smokers already know). This Anti-Drug Week turns my youngest child into a little Carrie Nations every year, fretting that a glass of merlot with dinner is going to turn me into a raging alcoholic.
I hate the ones where you decline the "would you like to donate a $1 to feed the children?" Well, first off as a single mom, i'm trying to feed my own 3 children, and just because I use my $1 to go towards bread or milk doesn't mean I don't care about other starving children...lol.
This Anti-Drug Week turns my youngest child into a little Carrie Nations every year, fretting that a glass of merlot with dinner is going to turn me into a raging alcoholic.
But of course it will! Don't you KNOW THAT?!
Btw, this abbreviation PTA reminds me always of another one - PITA. I thank goodness often I don't have to deal at least with this type of crap.
I think for a minute, and say, "Well, it's bad for business, of course." With that, I roll up my window and move up in the carpool line.
That's great!!!! I almost burned the bejeezes out of my self with my coffee. Given the opportunity, I am sooooo stealing that line.
I do not like the PTA or the PTO as they call it here. Sometimes they pull off something good and then destroy themselves by going on a witch hunt. I do not like pushy people and the first no should have been sufficient.
That's too funny.
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