crossing The Line
As Johnny McEnroe would say, “You cannot be serious.”
We all know nice American parents who give their kids a ride to school every day because the lazy bastards can’t get the hell out of bed early enough to catch the neighborhood bus. Parents are stressing and rushing because they don’t want Slo-Mo Joe to be tardy. Tardiness shows up on the report card and that doesn’t look good if the lad hopes to get into Harvard.
So now with the hectic scramble, traffic jams, and lack of parking, we’re seeing cops being dispatched to schools at drop-off and pick-up time to bust up disputes and make arrests. What the Christ? The bumper-to-bumper drop-off is becoming a true crime drama. You’ve got jackasses driving through neighbors’ yards and tearing up their lawns to jump the line. They’re also finding that some parents who are picking up their kids after school have been doing a little day drinking and getting nabbed for drunk driving in the pick-up line. Now I know why nip sales are up.
Some parents slow the line down by saying goodbye to the kid five times. Hey, get the hell out of the car pronto, Tonto. This is Generation Wuss, my friend. In South Carolina, one driver snuck in front of a coupla other parents and would not let her in. Two women jumped out of their cars—one with a stun gun and the other with a real gun—and went right over to the cutoff culprit to straighten her out. Hey, next time let little Susie and Jimmy catch the bus like we did.
Keep your dukes up.
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