MISUNDERSTOOD DAD OF THE DAY

You try to teach your son to be on time, and where does that get you?

(Thanks to... wait for it.... Siouxie)

Comments

[Betsy]

So dad seems to have a little bit of a sense of entitlement, hm? I'm SOOOOOOO glad they had the plane towed:)

[wickedwitch]

time for the Aricept and to hand the keys over. of course, engineers don't think like the rest of us. common sense much?

[Adult delinquent]

He should have just landed ON the golf course.... Give the old golfing geezers a little excitement....

[Siouxie]

I'm betting the son is a real spoiled brat and was whining and bitchin'

Either way, that takes some pretty huge cojones.

OTOH, how many of us have wished to be able to fly over traffic when stuck?? I know I have.

[lil rascal]

When you are 65, sitting around waiting for change eventually effects the mind and distorts reality to the point of considering the possibility that giving in to schizphorenia is the better part of valor, or forcing oneself to watch one more unmeaningful post primary speech from Barack Obama.

[Not my usual alias]

The local news interviewed the son who admitted in a sheepish way that his Dad was kind of cool.

I used to live off Route 22 in Lincolnshire when I went to college. There are communities in that microcosm of the Northern Suburbs of Chicago that take entitlement to a whole new level.

One family purchased a house that was adjacent to a high school so their son could show up late and get a good parking spot. Kids that don't "Summer" (note the verbing of the word usually associated with a season) in Europe or Asia are considered neglected. Parents order the underlings at employers to write term papers for their children ("be sure to use 3x5 cards for each fact and use 5x7 cards for bibliography cards, work from an outline and write at least two drafts").

Not just a sense of entitlement -- A sense of entitlement on steroids.

[wickedwitch]

no Siouxie, when I'm stuck in traffic i wish i had a large caliber, fully automatic machine gun and a gatling gun mounted to the front grille. when it's really bad, i think of RPG's. that's why i have the little pink pills.

[Braniff77]

A 1949 Piper Clipper? Was the LearJet in the shop?

[Rosie]

the family should move to rural ND where they get to fly virtually anywhere without encountering anything or anyone.

[Siouxie]

LMAO wicked...you and me need to partay, woman!

When it's bad, I'd love to be driving a tank. FULLY loaded.

[Not my usual alias]

Braniff77 --
Like many of the truly entitled, he keeps a winter plane so his nice plane doesn't get yucky in Chicago winters.

[Texgal]

Just your average @sshole parent who refuses to let the kid learn from his own mistakes. Is it any wonder why so many kids are spoiled?

*Borrows the machete to wack this POS dad on the head*

[Texgal]

Thanks, Sioux. I feel so much better!!!!

[Siouxie]

Anytime, Tex!

Maybe we should form a line (a la Airplane) and take turns whacking this ahole upside the head??

[Lairbo]

Is he a member of that golf club and did he at least yell, "Fore" as he came in?

[Not my usual alias]

Lairbo --
His reasoning was that no one would be on the 7th Fairway when there was a foot of snow on the ground. He flow over the area twice to look for obstacles or people before landing.

[Cheryl Howard]

Fool. He should have flown the helicopter.

My husband has always wished that he had the power to give cars flat tires on demand. If they were really awful drivers, two flat tires. Pretty smart thinking if you ask me.

[daisymae]

Beam me up, Scotty!!

[Texgal]

I get to be June Cleever speaking in jive dialect.

[daisymae]

Sio & ww - I remember when my kids were little, and we would go on long car trips, I'd get so tired of the whining. I'd fantasize about a backseat paddle connected to the front seat like a tiller, and when I got tired of their whining, I'd push it back and forth and just beat the cr@p out of them.

[DeskDiva]

LOL, daisy! I think my mom wanted that, too!

NMUA, I know the communities of which you speak. You're right on the money (operative word being, of course, money)!

[Merri Lee]

When you are 65, sitting around waiting for change eventually effects the mind and distorts reality to the point of considering the possibility that giving in to schizphorenia is the better part of valor, or forcing oneself to watch one more unmeaningful post primary speech from Barack Obama.

Posted by: lil rascal | 01:10 PM on March 5, 2008

Wow, lil rascal, you're almost up there with James Manning of ATLAH with your Obama posts

[Siouxie]

daisy, that is brilliant! Patent that and you're set for life.

[wickedwitch]

daisy, again, this is where those little pink pills come in. one for the kid, one for you. everyone is happy and the kid will wake up, eventually.

[TuckandRoll]

Kids these days!
Our dad just lowered the air speed & gave us a shove out the hatch!

[Betsy]

Diva...Yep, I'm another Chicago gal. My mom taught at New Trier HS, and was astonished at the kids who wintered in Majorca, but had never been to downtown Chicago to the Art Institute because it was sooooo "dirty" and "dangerous".