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Flameful for the day.
There were two kids in our community that died in a alcohol-related car accident last year. At the time, it showed they were both underage and drunk. It was extremely tragic.
Fast forward a year, and people are completely martyring the girl who died, while both ignoring the boy who died and blaming him, without really coming out and saying it was his fault. They've gone from offering a reward to find out who served both of the kids alcohol (which was unclaimed) to publicly stating that she was not drunk at the time of the crash.
They are throwing a parade for the girl's 19th birthday, planning a baloon launch, a memory wall, etc. They have been talking about it for a half an hour on the radio and they have not once mentioned the boy.
It makes me sad for his family.
Re: Flameful for the day.
This is terrible. Grief can make people do awful things.
I get this.
In my area, a HS kid was drinking and either jumped or fell from a highway overpass onto the windshield of a car (nobody knows for sure what happened). He died, and people held tons of memorials and vigils for it. I understand people mourning him, but he almost killed the occupants of the vehicle, and another vehicle, because they swerved into oncoming traffic attempting to avoid him. Somebody has to live with the sick feeling of worrying about a body dropping in front of their car every time they drive through there now. I think if it was an alcohol-related accident, he was stupid and people need to acknowledge he shouldn't have been drinking. Make this a cautionary tale so other kids don't hang out on overpasses, getting trashed. If it was a suicide, it was selfish and dangerous to do it at all, but especially in the way he did it. I hate people talking about him like some kind of teen martyr when he almost took a bunch of innocent people with him when he died.
I agree with this.
I am never playing softball again.
I don't even really like softball, and I generally dislike the girl running the team. But a few weeks ago, the fiance was all "waah, we don't have enough hobbies in common" (BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP PAINTBALL), so I caved and agreed to doing softball again.
Which led to last nights sulkfest over the fact that a) we lost and b) I suck at running, catching, throwing, hitting, ya know, all things softball.
WHICH OF COURSE had to lead to a three hour discussion on whether or not I truly understand that my lack of a giveashit about my running skills could be indicative of a disinterest in the notion of lifelong learning.
Yep.
He's lucky he's alive today. I'm exhausted and ready to chuck the whole season if this is how week 1 goes.
So true. My H had two very good friends who were both drunk and crashed. One of them died, and he was the one with more potential. He was essentially martyred while the other kid was ostracized. It was so unfair and he never recovered. They both decided to get drunk and get in that car.
You need to take up paintball. YOU GET TO SHOOT HIM.
Tell him you want him to take up scrapbooking or garage sale shopping or jewelry making so that you can spend more time together.
As always, Cjoy is wise.
Hey, I'm not the one who had to create a username to placate my own dumb and oddly hilarious lack of self esteem or courage of any kind. "Heh."
Updated September 2012.
Um. She didn't. In case you haven't noticed, A LOT of people lost posts.
And it's been happening lately.
Again, you are an idiot.
I didn't delete anything. I'm assuming someone else deleted and they deleted children.
However, my amazing courage and self-esteem at least allows me to post under the only screenname I've ever used, as opposed to having to create a dumb f*cking alter to vent my petty frustrations.
Updated September 2012.
Lol, do you not get it? You're never going to win this one, because you had to make up a name in order to avoid the ire of a bunch of people on an internet message board. You can talk sh!t about me all you want; I'm still way awesomer than you are, simply by virtue of the fact that I'm not a wuss who can't sack up and voice an opinion under her real screenname.
Updated September 2012.
And LOL that these things always end with "...well...well...at least I don't use an AE. So THERE!"
Yeah, I'm hurt by that comeback EVERY TIME. (<---huber taught me about sarcasm earlier, so I'm trying it out. See what I did there?)These things end with "I don't have to use an AE" because -- well, I don't have to use an AE. Because I'm not a p*ssy. It's pretty much that simple.
Me > you.
Updated September 2012.
P.S. You shouldn't let people on an internet message board get you so worked up. Stay cool.
Creating an AE to post insulting things doesn't make you any more cool. lolllll.
Updated September 2012.
Updated September 2012.
Omg, LMFAO!
Updated September 2012.
LOLZ?
This is the only think that has made me smile all day. I don't like you under your real name either!
/twirls!
Oh great fancicul f u c k.
It made me actually laugh out loud, so... yeah.
I don't have much of an ass to begin with though, so there's not much to lose. I have white-girl ass.
Updated September 2012.
Um, yeah. I didn't mean to imply I was nunya.
Just throwing my opinion out there like a non-"wuss"