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more prom fun: mom buys billboard to campaign daughter for queen
ok.
...and we wonder how people become obnoxious brides.
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Mom Buys Billboard for Daughter?s Prom Queen Bid: Awesome or Embarrassing?
Mom Buys Billboard for Daughter's Prom Queen Bid
Some mothers would do anything for their daughters, but usually that is in terms of feeding them, housing them and making sure they get a decent education. But one mom poured her energy, efforts and money into something less essential. Texas teen Brandy Day?s mother went all out to help her daughter become prom queen: she bought ads in the local paper, printed fliers, rented a sign outside a taco shop, and then she really went overboard. She bought a bold pink billboard to try to earn votes for her teen. ?Families feel like it?s a little too much or over the top for one night,? Mama Day told ABC, ?but then again, it only happens one time in your child?s life.?
And what did her daughter think of this? Apparently she originally brought it up to her mom but, ?I was joking, but she took me seriously,? she said. ?When she texted me a pic of the billboard and the newspaper, I was shocked.?
As Jezebel notes, the overzealous drive will probably do more harm that good, saying, ?anyone who?s ever lived through high school knows that the advertisements could, in fact, lose her the election ? who wants a spoiled brat with an aggressively pink PR campaign to win??
image via ABC News Video
I am the 99%.
Re: more prom fun: mom buys billboard to campaign daughter for queen
Oh so this is considered a no no?
::erases billboard cost from 2024 budget::
One million nest dollars that she was a pagent mom.
KateAggie is going to kill me, but as soon as I read the thread title, my first thought was, This MUST be in Texas.
This is embarrassing as hell.
Mortifying. If I were her, I'd start searching for out of state schools ASAP. Maybe a year abroad.
same here, I just knew it
I thought the same thing.
The lengths that good ole cheerleader mom went through a lasting impression on me...for better or worse.