Idiots Rule
Don't we all enjoy beginning the day this way?
Got to work and checked voicemail:
Hi, Ms. Robinson, this Blah-Blah, Junior Blah-Blah's mother. Since Blah-Blah has been suspended for five days, I've sent you three or four emails requesting his work. You have not responded. I am very, very disgusted and contacted your assistant principal. This is no way to treat a child who has been suspended. Please call me back because you are very unprofessional.
I could just throw up when people use the word very all the time. It's like very superfluous.
I called the b*tch back.
Me: Hi, Mrs. Blah-Blah. This is Catherine Robinson, Blah-Blah's teacher.
Her: Hi.
Me: I'm so glad you called and left a message because otherwise I wouldn't have known you were sending emails. You see, I never received them.
Her: Oh? Is your name with a "C" or a "K"?
Me: "C"
Her: Oh, I sent them to the wrong person!
(no shit.)
Me: Interesting.
(long pause)
Her: I was very angry.
Me: I could tell.
(long pause)
Me: I'll make sure your son's work is waiting in Student Affairs at the end of the day if you'd like to pick it up.
Her: Okay. Thanks. What time?
Me: The school day ends at 2:45pm.
I hung up the phone and cursed a little.
When you make an ass out of yourself and your child, the best thing to do is apologize. It's the very polite thing to do.
posted by kate @ 12:05 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Pfft, apologies are, like, so very, very 1998. Now we have, "I accept blame for anything that went wrong, but nothing went wrong, so blaming me for anything makes you a terrorist and possibly French." More cumbersome? Very. An object lesson in the power of doofus-rhetoric? Very very.
You are very very correct and quakerjono is a stitch. Very very much so.
I very much hope that one can learn the very perfect way to treat the very suspended.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Mom is wasting your time and hers. Junior isn't going to do the assignments anyway.
How....very.
Thank you for sharing. I too got called (in a 2 page HANDWRITTEN letter no less) many of the names you mentioned by an extremely misinformed parent. All this over a voluntary (on my part ) teacher reccomendation that she insisted I did not send off (I did). If she were the type to apologize, she wouldn't have made the rant in the first place. So sad.
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