Bad Parent Sightings: The Crayola Marker War
My wife Kim just finished up all of our back to school shopping, during which she saw her fair share of parental mischief. She reported back to me (I was, thank the gods, spared the trip to Targét) that parents were running one another over to get the last of the dwindling supplies. The local schools in the Seattle suburbs hand out highly specific lists of items to purchase for the start of the school year - THREE bottles of Elmer’s Super-Adhesive Non-Toxic Water-Soluble glue! FOUR boxes of Crayola Thin Line Markers! - and woe unto the unfortunate parental unit who arrives to find nothing but generic crayons left on the shelves. Because Goddess forbid a child arrive at school with Rose Art crayons instead of Crayola, branding him a social pariah, and condemning him to a years worth of dodging rocks at recess.
Kim, sadly, observed first-hand what happens when the stock of a vaunted item reaches nil, when at the end of her final Target trip she saw two parents fighting over the last pack of Crayola markers. There was no need in the end to call in the Keystone Rent-a-Cops, but according to Kim, "It nearly came to blows." And that’s not right. Come on, parents - we’re all in this together. Let’s please refrain for fighting one another until the start of the school year, and instead shore up our hatred and animosity for those who most deserve it: our children’s teachers.
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1 opinion for Bad Parent Sightings: The Crayola Marker War
rockdoll_71
Oct 17, 2007 at 3:22 am
I really don’t understand why this story is on this site.
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