Monday, November 24, 2008

Parents these days...

Whew - another Monday over.

The weekend was fun! We drove up to PA on Saturday afternoon. The hotel was very nice except for the 8 middle school girls soccer teams that were staying with us!

What happens when you get about 90 middle school aged kids in the same hotel with little to no supervision?

Mayhem...that's what.

For some stupid beyond stupid reason the hotel put us on the same floor as the pool and we were sharing it with the little girl soccer teams that were staying there. For a few hours M and I heard the following:

Scream!

Giggle!

Slam!

Rinse and repeat about a gazillion times.

In the meantime the parents were partying out in the hallway! No kidding! They moved all their chairs out there had a cooler of beer and delivered pizza and just sat around wasted while their pre-teen aged girls wreaked havoc around the hotel.

M and I take turns at being the "voice of reason" in situations. This time I was the raving maniac who wanted to scream out the door: "For the love of Pete shut the fuck up!"

M calmly reminded me it was only 7:00 and they would eventually calm down.

SO....I waited.

Scream!

Giggle!

Slam!

Scream!

Giggle!

Slam!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I called the front desk and complained. They said they were going to send security around to check on things.

We heard about 5 minutes of quiet and then:

Scream!

Giggle!

Slam!

Scream!

Giggle!

Slam!

I called the front desk again. This time they told me they have received several complaints and they were going to take care of it.

5 more minutes of calm and then...yep, you betcha:

Scream!

Giggle!

Slam!

What the fa?

I called for the last time and demanded they change our room.

They did.

As we marched past the partying parents in the hallway they shot us some really nasty looks.

Uh...excuse me. Your little girls are running around a hotel acting like animals and you have the freakin' nerve to give ME a dirty look?

What the fa?

Since when did parents permit there kids to run around screaming and yelling in the hallways of a hotel?

My Mom and Dad would have shot me on the spot if we acted that way. I would have shot my OWN kids if they acted that way.

What were these parents thinking?

Oh...never mind. They weren't thinking They are of that new generation where they think the world revolves around them.

Fuck that shit. They are assholes

2 comments:

finn said...

I SOO know what you mean. My parents would let me play and have fun but only as long as I wouldn't bother anyone else. I get very frustrated with kids today.
But my guess is that it's a generation thing and "my" generation, who was taught to behave will bring up their kids differently than parents today obviously do...
hope you found some quietude to relax

alice, uptown said...

It always amazes and horrifies me that "my generation," we of the baby boomer label, were brought up to have manners OR ELSE, whereas the offspring of my generation seem to have received a memo from their parents saying, you were the very first baby to be born on this planet.

No one in previous generations, including your parents' (the baby boomers') has successfully undertaken this feat before and hence it is worthy of celebration.

Newsflash to the parents: people have been transferring DNA from generation to generation for more years than we can count, and you are far from the first to avail yourselves of this opportunity. Kindly take this underadvisement the next time you spring your litle hoodlums on an unsuspecting public.