Caught With Your Smarty-Pants Down

Ok so for the last couple of months I have been leaving work early so I can pick up my sister from school. My mother enrolled her in an after school science program. It's great. She seems to enjoy it and the time we spend together on the playground talking about what she learned is also great. She is really reaching me a lot about theoretical Astrophysics, quantum mechanics and Dark Matter.

The one thing that I hate about it are these irritating soccer moms that talk on their cell phones the hole time and have the urge to park right on the fire zone. Nothing irritates me more than a lazy mother that does not want to walk more than 20 feet to pick up their osh kosh bgosh child. You know the kind that tries to be safe by diving an SUV. Well maybe it you were not holding a phone up to their ear while driving it would actually be safe. You know aside from the high tip-over rate that SUV's have they are really save. But I know what they have to say ... It's in case of the snow. Guess what stupid, this is Rockland County. They close schools for 2 inches of snow. Where are you going to take your child in the snow. I got it!!! They ARE driving their SUV's because of the snow. With the amount of Fossil Fuels that we are burning in 15-20 years we won't have any snow. EVER.

Well anyway so I got home from work and I did not leave right away because my sister is never released by 4:30 like they said. She gets out at 4:45. Well I don't want to wait at the schools with all the MILF's. They irritate me too much.

Well for the past god knows how many weeks, all I have heard Wednesday nights is, "Don't forget to pick up your sister. Don't forget to pick up your sister. Don't forget to pick up your sister." And the same today. I got so aggravated that I just yelled, "Hey I know what time I have to leave. I'll go when I go." I knew what I was doing and I left my house at 4:30 and arrived at the school at 4:40. A whole 5 minutes early. Wouldn't you know it that today was the last day so they let the kids out early. She was waiting for me. It was only a couple of minutes she said and I don't think I left any abandonment scars but I still feel stupid.

Believe me I know. I had to deal with after school abandonment too when I was a kid. Or as the called it then "Latchkey." The program ended at 6:00pm. My parents got out of work at 3:30. Boy did that suck having to wait there past six for my parents with a very angry teenager. These people were willing to give me five bucks, call a cab and wish me 'best of luck.'

Oh well but it's official. This is an advanced apology for my sister for when she she gets on live journal... Five years from now.

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