Overheard:
This morning I was given a physical by the son of Haitian immigrants. He grew up to be a doctor. Conservatives don't want him to be American.
Um. WHAT?
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Guess Where You WON'T Be Spending Christmas This Year
Hypothetical:
Your father-in-law has an affinity for marijuana. It's a hobby, let's say. He drives a school bus for a living. Do you call the dispatch office and tattle on his hobby?
Your father-in-law has an affinity for marijuana. It's a hobby, let's say. He drives a school bus for a living. Do you call the dispatch office and tattle on his hobby?
Not Even Sure Where to Start Here
Overheard:
No one should have to live on one salary if they don't want to. So, the government really needs to subsidize daycare expenses.
No one should have to live on one salary if they don't want to. So, the government really needs to subsidize daycare expenses.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Ever Hear of Catharsis, Moron?
Overheard (from a woman):
You can't tell me Rihanna didn't put her hands on Chris Brown during their altercation. And the fact that she collaborated with Eminem on his song about abuse just makes me want to blame her more. If this really happened to her--and I doubt it--she brought it on herself. I've stopped buying her music but wholeheartedly support him.
You can't tell me Rihanna didn't put her hands on Chris Brown during their altercation. And the fact that she collaborated with Eminem on his song about abuse just makes me want to blame her more. If this really happened to her--and I doubt it--she brought it on herself. I've stopped buying her music but wholeheartedly support him.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Not Even Remotely Close to the Same Thing
Overheard:
Illegal Immigration is not a new problem. The Native Americans used to call it "white people."
Illegal Immigration is not a new problem. The Native Americans used to call it "white people."
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Because It's All About the Health Foods
Overheard:
Fruit roll ups are so bad for my kids. I'm just going to give them fruit snacks, instead.
Fruit roll ups are so bad for my kids. I'm just going to give them fruit snacks, instead.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Not That There's Anything Wrong With That
Overheard:
Over half of America is on Food Stamps. Doesn't that indicate food is a right, not a privilege?
Over half of America is on Food Stamps. Doesn't that indicate food is a right, not a privilege?
Monday, August 23, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Home Alone?
You are a childcare provider responsible for five children on any given day. You have two of your own, 17 and almost 12.
Your seventeen year old needs picked up from an appointment one morning. Rather than grab the 8 year old, 8 month old, 4 year old, and 19 month old and go through the rigmarole of buckling them all up in their appropriate car seats, you decide to dash the fifteen minutes (round trip) by yourself to pick up your teenager, leaving the four children in the care of your almost-12-year-old.
Your state law indicates children must be 12 years old before you can leave them home alone for any length of time.
Have you technically broken the law here?
Your seventeen year old needs picked up from an appointment one morning. Rather than grab the 8 year old, 8 month old, 4 year old, and 19 month old and go through the rigmarole of buckling them all up in their appropriate car seats, you decide to dash the fifteen minutes (round trip) by yourself to pick up your teenager, leaving the four children in the care of your almost-12-year-old.
Your state law indicates children must be 12 years old before you can leave them home alone for any length of time.
Have you technically broken the law here?
You Do Know That You Are Still Ultimately Responsible For Your Debt, Do You Not?
Overheard:
In 2008 I became a single mother to four children. As you'd expect, there were financial hardships as a result of our separation and ultimate divorce. In April of 2009 I was ONE month behind on my mortgage and called to see if I could have that month's payment deferred. That call began 16 months of Bank of America loan modification hell. It is still ongoing. Even though I had only called asking for a month's deferment, the woman on the phone suggested I apply for a loan modification saying "it couldn't hurt to try." How wrong she was! As a result of Bank of America "helping" me, what was once only one month in arrears has swelled to almost $26,000 in arrears. And even though Bank of America told me repeatedly that they would not just expect me to come up with the arrearage amount should I be declined a modification, telling me there were other programs in place to help with the back due amount, that is exactly what they are doing. If I don't pay the $26,000, they will take my house. I made every modification payment early and I sent every document ever requested of me. In the end, they are going to screw me and my four children out of our home, even though the only thing I did wrong was to follow their advice for assistance.
In 2008 I became a single mother to four children. As you'd expect, there were financial hardships as a result of our separation and ultimate divorce. In April of 2009 I was ONE month behind on my mortgage and called to see if I could have that month's payment deferred. That call began 16 months of Bank of America loan modification hell. It is still ongoing. Even though I had only called asking for a month's deferment, the woman on the phone suggested I apply for a loan modification saying "it couldn't hurt to try." How wrong she was! As a result of Bank of America "helping" me, what was once only one month in arrears has swelled to almost $26,000 in arrears. And even though Bank of America told me repeatedly that they would not just expect me to come up with the arrearage amount should I be declined a modification, telling me there were other programs in place to help with the back due amount, that is exactly what they are doing. If I don't pay the $26,000, they will take my house. I made every modification payment early and I sent every document ever requested of me. In the end, they are going to screw me and my four children out of our home, even though the only thing I did wrong was to follow their advice for assistance.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Zero-Buck Chuck?
Hypothetical:
While grocery shopping for a dinner party, you select six bottles of wine. Upon checkout, your total is $25.xx. Glancing at your receipt (because this seems low) you notice that the cashier only rang you up for two of the six bottles.
WWYD?
While grocery shopping for a dinner party, you select six bottles of wine. Upon checkout, your total is $25.xx. Glancing at your receipt (because this seems low) you notice that the cashier only rang you up for two of the six bottles.
WWYD?
Tick-Tock Goes the Biological Clock
Hypothetical:
You are divorced after a very short (less than a year) marriage. You divorced your spouse because he was emotionally and verbally abusive, and physically a couple of times. (You left after the last physical incident.)
Less than a year after your divorce, you start dating a man that you eventually fall in love with. He divorced his spouse about three years ago because she was physically and emotionally unfaithful to him.
In other words, you both have baggage.
Neither of you has children. You are in your early 30's and want to have children before you get "too old". He wants children--you think. You haven't *really* discussed it.
You have, in your mind, set a time limit on advancing the relationship with your new boyfriend. You have determined that if he has not proposed marriage and set a date by the time you've been dating for one year, you will walk away from the relationship. You consider this a personal boundary, put in place to protect yourself and your emotions. Hence, you have not shared this time limit with your boyfriend.
Is this fair?
You are divorced after a very short (less than a year) marriage. You divorced your spouse because he was emotionally and verbally abusive, and physically a couple of times. (You left after the last physical incident.)
Less than a year after your divorce, you start dating a man that you eventually fall in love with. He divorced his spouse about three years ago because she was physically and emotionally unfaithful to him.
In other words, you both have baggage.
Neither of you has children. You are in your early 30's and want to have children before you get "too old". He wants children--you think. You haven't *really* discussed it.
You have, in your mind, set a time limit on advancing the relationship with your new boyfriend. You have determined that if he has not proposed marriage and set a date by the time you've been dating for one year, you will walk away from the relationship. You consider this a personal boundary, put in place to protect yourself and your emotions. Hence, you have not shared this time limit with your boyfriend.
Is this fair?
That Depends Upon One's Definition of "Heart" I Suppose
Overheard:
Divorce is worse than abortion because real hearts are broken.
Divorce is worse than abortion because real hearts are broken.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Choose Life?
Hypothetical:
Your child is born with a disease or condition that, while not fatal, is difficult to manage and requires almost constant medical care. The condition was noticed and discussed at a 22-gestational-week ultrasound. At some point in your young child's life, you learn that said condition could have been caught at an earlier ultrasound--one within the time frame for termination of pregnancy. Ok, call it what it is: abortion. At any rate. You learn, after perusing your medical records, that there were markers at week 15 that should have been spotted and were never mentioned.
Because your child's condition is so hard on the family, and is breaking you financially, you decide, upon learning this information, to sue for "wrongful birth". In other words, you sue your obstetrician for not advising you to abort your child. This is not recognized in all states but it is in yours. Your obstetrician is your best friend and the child's godmother.
To win the lawsuit you'll have to prove (by lying) that your life would be better off without your sick child.
Discuss.
Your child is born with a disease or condition that, while not fatal, is difficult to manage and requires almost constant medical care. The condition was noticed and discussed at a 22-gestational-week ultrasound. At some point in your young child's life, you learn that said condition could have been caught at an earlier ultrasound--one within the time frame for termination of pregnancy. Ok, call it what it is: abortion. At any rate. You learn, after perusing your medical records, that there were markers at week 15 that should have been spotted and were never mentioned.
Because your child's condition is so hard on the family, and is breaking you financially, you decide, upon learning this information, to sue for "wrongful birth". In other words, you sue your obstetrician for not advising you to abort your child. This is not recognized in all states but it is in yours. Your obstetrician is your best friend and the child's godmother.
To win the lawsuit you'll have to prove (by lying) that your life would be better off without your sick child.
Discuss.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
You Can Start By Trying to Remember the Date of Your Own Wedding...
Overheard:
My best friend, who I met on Facebook, is getting married on my ten year dating anniversary. Do you think she'll be offended if I don't go to the wedding since my husband might have a trip planned? I mean, it's my frigging anniversary, for crying out loud!
What to do, what to do?
My best friend, who I met on Facebook, is getting married on my ten year dating anniversary. Do you think she'll be offended if I don't go to the wedding since my husband might have a trip planned? I mean, it's my frigging anniversary, for crying out loud!
What to do, what to do?
Overheards and Hypotheticals
On my Facebook page, I run a somewhat popular (depending upon your definition of the word) feature that I call "Overheard" or "Hypothetical". In these postings, I present either hypothetical situations (which may or may not be based on actual, real-life situations, and which may or may not happen to me or people I may or may not know) for discussion (kind of like a WWYD) or statements I may or may not overhear (or read on a message board, or somewhere online, or in a book, or a magazine) or may or may not be said to me or people I may or may not know, also for discussion.
These are usually the most popular posts on my FB page, so I gave them their own home on the internet. Feel free to discuss, hypothesize, or facepalm at your leisure.
To protect myself and my Facebook page--since you may or may not know who I am--I am choosing to remain anonymous on my blog. As a disclaimer, I do not discriminate in my overheards or hypotheticals. They are not meant to be inflammatory--just honest.
Enjoy!
These are usually the most popular posts on my FB page, so I gave them their own home on the internet. Feel free to discuss, hypothesize,
To protect myself and my Facebook page--since you may or may not know who I am--I am choosing to remain anonymous on my blog. As a disclaimer, I do not discriminate in my overheards or hypotheticals. They are not meant to be inflammatory--just honest.
Enjoy!
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