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impyYou ever have someone tell you something and your respect for them dims considerably? To the point where you can't repeat what they said/did that made you feel that way because you still love them and wouldn't want other people to also think badly of them but sweet baby Jesus, there is something seriously wrong with what they just said/did.
Yeah, I had one of those moments while on the phone this morning during my Sunday walk. I'm pretty sure anyone who happened to see me the moment it processed in my head saw someone whose face did the "does not compute, error" message kind of thing.
Which is impressive considering the amount of WTF kind of news I heard earlier in the weekend.
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned Lisa before. She who pretty much ruined the AG DC trip and is forever messing up plans and is just kind of The Worst and I regret the six months or so I spent feeling vaguely sorry for her when everyone else was being straight up awful to/about her. Clearly they were right and I was wrong and yet they remained friends with her so what do I know.
Anyway, Lisa has two kids. The daughter is older by 8 or so years and the son is Lisa's undisputed favorite. Like even a casual scroll through her FB feed would make this obvious and it's worse in person. Pretty sure daughter knows, but kids are very good at ignoring the obvious so... I digress. Daughter, btw, is 13 now and still not fully uh, potty trained for lack of a better phrase? And Lisa just shrugs and says it's because daughter is lazy. For years this has baffled me, btw.
L and the kids' father broke up awhile ago and he lives in California, I think? Maybe he moved. I do know that L packed the kids up and moved them back to Cali a few years ago, even though everyone told her this was a horrible idea because it was obvious that she was only doing it because she thought she could get him back (even though she never wanted him in the first place) and y'know, she could not compete with a much younger stripper gf. It went about as well as you'd expect and she was back in SC about as quickly as most people assumed she'd be. The first super serious relationship I heard of her having was with some "former" meth addict who turned out to be not so much a former addict at all. Also, he went to jail for not paying child support amongst other things. She hid him til the end of the school year, btw, for some reason or another.
The current bf is also another "former" addict of one kind or another and I only met him once but my skin crawled so hard that I immediately put him on the bad list. Yeaaaaaaaaah. We're skipping a bunch of family drama that happened, but L and the boyfriend live together, with the kids, and I gather the daughter got mouthy or something and he allegedly popped her... and when she went to school the next day shit hit the fan.
DSS and law enforcement were called and Cass has custody of the son and might wind up with custody of the daughter, who spent the weekend in foster care because that was no pop if it left a bruise and holyfuckingshit, whose reaction to all this is an immediate, "I knew I shouldn't have sent her to school?"
I haven't the words... or maybe I have too many. She didn't dump the bf and in fact they had his kid over the weekend. DSS takes your kids away due to imminent danger but yeah, you go ahead and host another kid for the weekend. What. The. Fuck. If I had any idea where L was living, I think I'd have called the cops myself. But I don't so I didn't.
Here's the thing. She's more upset about the inconvenience of it all and more concerned about getting her son back than she is about the welfare of her daughter and it just boggles my mind. I know people can be such shitty parents but it still just... why? How? UGH.
Later we will resume the BSC answers. For now, my face hurts because of allergies and stuff so I'm going to go find a book and knock back some wal-dryl.
Yeah, I had one of those moments while on the phone this morning during my Sunday walk. I'm pretty sure anyone who happened to see me the moment it processed in my head saw someone whose face did the "does not compute, error" message kind of thing.
Which is impressive considering the amount of WTF kind of news I heard earlier in the weekend.
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned Lisa before. She who pretty much ruined the AG DC trip and is forever messing up plans and is just kind of The Worst and I regret the six months or so I spent feeling vaguely sorry for her when everyone else was being straight up awful to/about her. Clearly they were right and I was wrong and yet they remained friends with her so what do I know.
Anyway, Lisa has two kids. The daughter is older by 8 or so years and the son is Lisa's undisputed favorite. Like even a casual scroll through her FB feed would make this obvious and it's worse in person. Pretty sure daughter knows, but kids are very good at ignoring the obvious so... I digress. Daughter, btw, is 13 now and still not fully uh, potty trained for lack of a better phrase? And Lisa just shrugs and says it's because daughter is lazy. For years this has baffled me, btw.
L and the kids' father broke up awhile ago and he lives in California, I think? Maybe he moved. I do know that L packed the kids up and moved them back to Cali a few years ago, even though everyone told her this was a horrible idea because it was obvious that she was only doing it because she thought she could get him back (even though she never wanted him in the first place) and y'know, she could not compete with a much younger stripper gf. It went about as well as you'd expect and she was back in SC about as quickly as most people assumed she'd be. The first super serious relationship I heard of her having was with some "former" meth addict who turned out to be not so much a former addict at all. Also, he went to jail for not paying child support amongst other things. She hid him til the end of the school year, btw, for some reason or another.
The current bf is also another "former" addict of one kind or another and I only met him once but my skin crawled so hard that I immediately put him on the bad list. Yeaaaaaaaaah. We're skipping a bunch of family drama that happened, but L and the boyfriend live together, with the kids, and I gather the daughter got mouthy or something and he allegedly popped her... and when she went to school the next day shit hit the fan.
DSS and law enforcement were called and Cass has custody of the son and might wind up with custody of the daughter, who spent the weekend in foster care because that was no pop if it left a bruise and holyfuckingshit, whose reaction to all this is an immediate, "I knew I shouldn't have sent her to school?"
I haven't the words... or maybe I have too many. She didn't dump the bf and in fact they had his kid over the weekend. DSS takes your kids away due to imminent danger but yeah, you go ahead and host another kid for the weekend. What. The. Fuck. If I had any idea where L was living, I think I'd have called the cops myself. But I don't so I didn't.
Here's the thing. She's more upset about the inconvenience of it all and more concerned about getting her son back than she is about the welfare of her daughter and it just boggles my mind. I know people can be such shitty parents but it still just... why? How? UGH.
Later we will resume the BSC answers. For now, my face hurts because of allergies and stuff so I'm going to go find a book and knock back some wal-dryl.