Monday Teeny Poll
By Glinda
According to the results of last week’s poll, a full forty-six percent of you were never asked by your parents to go back to your room and change that outfit, missy. I applaud you on your tasteful clothing choices throughout your youth. A devious thirty-three percent, though, were ordered to change, did so, and then snuck the clothes in your bag and managed to change back into them at a friend’s house or a bathroom somewhere. I applaud you for your, er, ingenuity. Seventeen percent were ordered to change and did so, I applaud you on your obedience, no matter how many things you uttered under your breath. Only two percent had the cojones to ignore your parents’ directive, and I applaud you for somehow not getting grounded for life.
Today’s poll is about a man who, last week, placed an ad on craigslist to “sell” his two sons, claiming they could be used as “child slaves or footstools.” He says it was all a big joke, and included that fact at the bottom of the ad. He was arrested for filing a false report, which seems to me the police didn’t have a whole lot to go on and were annoyed at him and wanted to arrest him for something.
April 26th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
What is it with people who think their kids will never learn about these sorts of things? I want to slap Michelle Obama every time she says stuff about her girls, like they are getting fat or they won’t get out of bed. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not (those girls don’t look fat to me, though), she doesn’t need to say it to the whole wide world. Those kids did not ask to have their lives be made public.
This guy’s kids will find out somehow that he did this and it’s going to make them feel crummy. What a jerk.
April 26th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I can laugh at most any foible of human kind. However, I absolutely have no sense of humor when it involves the trafficking of children even as “a joke”. Having been there, done that, there is nothing remotely amusing about this. Yep it hurts if your parent says you are fat or lazy but it hurts worse when daddy uses you as a commodity even as a ….funny hahah …joke.