Here's A New Parent Email

[Italian_Stallion]

Suggest a university that doesn't have a football program.

Because you know more about what they want for their son and what their son wants than they do.

(I don't care if it was tongue-in-cheek; that smacked of "I'm smarter than you.")

Shotty, I am smarter than you.

But I was only making a funny. There's no intent here. Just boredom.

 

[mojo]

Had a parent of local small school's big star ask me in a roundabout way to write stories to boost her kid's recruiting profile and talk to writers at bigger papers in the region about him. I just said, gently and politely, wouldn't do the first and couldn't do the second.

 

[Ace]

Had a parent of local small school's big star ask me in a roundabout way to write stories to boost her kid's recruiting profile and talk to writers at bigger papers in the region about him. I just said, gently and politely, wouldn't do the first and couldn't do the second.

Wow. That's a first -- that they asked in a roundabout way, I mean.

 

[mojo]

Had a parent of local small school's big star ask me in a roundabout way to write stories to boost her kid's recruiting profile and talk to writers at bigger papers in the region about him. I just said, gently and politely, wouldn't do the first and couldn't do the second.

Wow. That's a first -- that they asked in a roundabout way, I mean.

Yeah. The parent seemed to be a little embarrassed by what she was asking for, but also a little desperate, as the hopes had been a little higher than the reality was working out to be.

 

[TheHacker]

My god, parents are idiots.

 

[mojo]

My god, parents are idiots.

Careful there, Hacker. There are probably a few sportswriters here who have, god knows how, maybe via the toilet seat, manged to procreate...

 

[shotglass]

Suggest a university that doesn't have a football program.

Because you know more about what they want for their son and what their son wants than they do.

(I don't care if it was tongue-in-cheek; that smacked of "I'm smarter than you.")

Shotty, I am smarter than you.

But I was only making a funny. There's no intent here. Just boredom.

Shot shot down. Fair enough.

 

[fishwrapper]

My god, parents are idiots.

Careful there, Hacker. There are probably a few sportswriters here who have, god knows how, maybe via the toilet seat, manged to procreate...

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