Count Your Blessings and Learn When to Shut Up

Okay, so I thought I was being cutesy earlier today with my little snide comments about the "glorified babysitters" in the school system shirking their responsibilities for some water outage, and on the last day before the holidays, no less. 

It's all part of the QueenAlpo persona, people.  I'm much sweeter in person.  And my punches hurt more.  And besides, when else do I get to have a "persona" and live somewhere that doesn't have rubber walls or mandatory diaper check?

OF COURSE I was happy to have Leah home.  And OF COURSE she didn't screw up my day... that much.

But then CK came home from his meeting and chewed me out for complaining in public when I had, in fact, slept until 11 am this morning. 

Later, much later... as in way after I not-so-politely reintroduced CK to the definition of \ˈsär-ˌka-zəm\, 3s-2t-2s-5s, SARCASM, as in ironic use of language meant to shove people's tongues up their umm... I mean ...er into their cheeks, I walked in as he was surfing the US news section of CNN and saw this:

Boy, they weren't kidding.  It was, tru-biz, an emergency. 

So there was a water outage in our county. 

But the teachers who paged me to make sure my kid would be dropped off in a safe place, um, forgot to include that "emergency" meant a water main break resulting in a "wall of icy water" that trapped several people in their cars, fearing for their lives as they were hoisted up by helicopter.

MCPS, I don't know...  maybe next time, when you decide to stuff our spawnlets down our throats and cite some "outage," you might want to include the disclaimer: "PEOPLE COULD BE DYING RIGHT NOW.  DO NOT BLOG ABOUT IT AND MAKE US LOOK STOOPID."

Comments

[Hilz]

Heh. Remember when we were kids, and we were thrilled when school was either delayed or let out early, and we didn't really care why?

And now we're adults. *le sigh*

[Josh]

Ha! I was surprised too when they closed the entire MCPS school system as well, then found out more.

[Lara]

Reminds me of September 11. Although I guess it was reversed. The school refused to tell any of of us why we were getting sent home early, but I guess the parents already knew. MCPS sucks.