| January 15, 2005 - Home schooling, my ass! |
| Dear Friends, in my last entry I told all of you a most grievous lie, yea verily. I said that December was totally devoid of freaks, but I remembered just the other day that that was not the case. On my way to visit my mother over the holidays, I stopped off at a Denny's for breakfast. At the table across from me was seated a young couple with seven (yes, seven!) children, none of whom appeared to be twins. Since the kids seemed very well-mannered, I didn't really pay that much attention to them. As they were leaving, the hostess came over and chatted with them a bit and escorted them to the door. As the waitress was clearing up the family's plates, the hostess came back and asked her, "Did you get to talk to that family at all?" And the waitress said, "No, not really." The hostess said, "Well, the mother just told me that she home schools all of those children." And the waitress, arching an eyebrow, asked, "She home schools all of them?" "Yes," said the hostess, "and not only that, she wants more children." Dear Friends, I almost passed fecal matter right in the middle of eating my fried eggs sunny side up! I thought the mother had a kind of wild look about her eyes and then I realized why. How in the world does she home school them all? I mean that's just ridiculous! And she wants more kids? When, pray tell, does the Blessed Event stop being "giving birth" and become "whelping"? A couple of years ago a man was minding 13 of his children while his wife and the 14th child were off in Ireland visiting the wife's parents. He forgot to take one of the children out of her carseat when they all returned from a shopping trip and the poor little girl died a horrible death as the temperature in the van soared. Of course, everyone was heartbroken but it was soon published in the paper that the father had often lost track of his children and that the particular little girl had once been found wandering down the road of her neighborhood. Then everyone started going on about what a wonderful father he was, that it was obviously a tragic mistake; after all, the man was a devout Catholic. Why, dear Friends, does that not surprise me? Quite frankly, and I don't give a rat's ass if this offends you, the Catholic Church should have been indicted as an accomplice to that little girl's death because of its assinine policy regarding birth control! Seven children and home schooling! What bullshit! Next entry Previous entry Go to diary entries Go back home |