Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Annoying Mom's

So today I was sitting at the Eugene Swim and Tennis club and was forced to listen to these two "friends" get into a pissing match (in a friendly way) over their children. The first woman was watching her son play and commenting on how well he was playing:
"My child has improved immensely this year on his swing. We have been doing tennis FOREVER and the improvements are amazing" (really, forever, he is four... idiot).
"Well we just started my son in this tennis camp this summer, but he is just SHOCKING to watch play golf. It just amazes me every time. He takes lessons at the COUNTRY CLUB" (literally, she basically shouted country club. Guess she wanted us all to know that she belongs to the country club as well...OK)
So mom #1 comes back with "well, we looked into golf lessons, but it was just too time consuming with all of his tennis lessons, classes at Montessori, and piano lessons and tutoring he is getting from Sylvan to continue his advancement. I am pretty sure he is going to skip a grade" (by now I am staring at these women with my mouth hung open. I can be certain of two things. The child will be walking around his school with a giant kick me sign on his back and she neglected to include his daily therapy sessions that he no doubt needs).
Mom #2 couldn't one up Mom #1 so she changed subjects about the Disney Channel that the tennis club had on for the siblings that weren't in the tennis lesson.
"You know, we don't allow the Disney channel on in my house. The themes are just morally wrong and too mature for anybody younger than high school" (yeah, that is what teenagers do when they come home from high school. Run to turn on the latest from Disney Channel. Maybe if they are smokin something and need a good laugh, but that is about it on that scenario).
Mom #1 "I know, we don't allow that either. My 7 year old daughter went and had a play date over at a friends house and watched some of it there. She came home and said the word sexy (she literally whispered this word). I was shocked, just SHOCKED. I know she had to got that word from that channel" (I was thinking, sad for her, nobody around her has ever used that term in her presence. My husband tells me I am sexy almost daily, and let me tell you, I make sure he yells that word if anybody else is around to hear it).
Mom#2 "You know, my husband wrote in to the president of Disney studio's letting him know how inappropriate the content was on that channel. I mean really, come on" (first thought that popped into my head was a.) your husband is a bigger douche than you if he wrote in to a studio about "content" and b.) there is not one MAN I know that would ever, EVER, do something like this).
Thankfully, class was over and the kids came running out. My blood pressure seriously soared listening to this conversation. Here is what my conversations sound like with my friends at the tennis club:
"you want a drink?"
"Yeah, do you" :)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Too Stinkin' Funny Stephanie! I LOVE it! Wanna get a drink?