five thousand shades of blue
Wednesday, June 05, 2002
...although I did want to mention that I was moved to write to Dear Freaking Abby because of some
lousy advice she gave (see second letter, just after the letter about the colon check up). My response to that (did you know you could email Dear Abby??):
It is completely unfair and unrealistic for single or childless (for whatever reason) people (or couples) to be EXPECTED to cater to OTHER people's kids. If you want to bring your kids to a single person's home (or even a childless couple's home), speak with them first and determine if it is all right to do so.
The parents who did not discipline their own children for trashing "Single"'s home were just plain WRONG. The father who brought along his small girl while they were attempting to work on a car (and failed to provide her with anything to do) was WRONG. "Single" was in the right to call them on it, and HE is the one who should be apologized to by these rude parents.
I wrote this visualizing going all
Janis on 'em. Lo, I am but a weak imitation. :)
is
this just not enough…?
