Can I Mock Part Dos

"You Mock" - Janel Moloney, The Souler Opposite
(Again, not in a song, but it fits)

So, after I wrote the first "Can I Mock" people did some stupid things that deserve mocking. And so I am now going to show them the error of their ways.

On Saturday mornings I work at my elementary school as the greeter for the Murphy classes they hold there. (In case you don't know, Murphy classes are to help eighth graders prepare for the catholic school test they need to take.) It's amazing what people will say to you. Like, for instance, my father had to go across the street to ask someone something in the other building. As he's crossing the street, he sees two thirteen-year-old girls standing there, talking to someone in the car which is parked in the middle of the street. The person in the car - a woman - yells to my father "Can they go in the school?"

"No" my father replies. "The next session starts at 10:30 and it's only 10:15."

"So I have to stay here until 10:30!?" the woman shouts back.

Um, you could have let. And what's the big deal about waiting 15 minutes. An hour? Yeah, I understand that. No one wants to wait an hour, especially when they need to go somewhere. But 15 minutes? Come on.

And here's another one. My father and I are packing up when the doorbell rings. "Now, who can that be?" my dad says, since everyone left (including the teachers). My dad answers it and I hear him talking to someone, but I can't make it out. Then I hear the door close and my father comes back into the room I was standing in. He's chuckling to himself, which means someone just said something stupid.

"What happened?" I asked

"A father just came and asked if he could pay tution. If we weren't here, no one would answer the door! And he seemed surprise when I said he would have to come back on Monday, since schools are usually closed over the weekend"

Stupid people. What kind of world are we living in?

I bet it's because Bush is our President.