American Idiocy--I Triple Doggy Dare You! Edition

No doubt a future leader of our country.

Cold Metal and Tongue--Not a Good Match

American Idiocy--Bikini Edition

Bikini Carjacker

Thank goodness she didn't have a gun on her, there's only one place I can think of where she could have concealed it, and that's just nasty.

International Idiocy: May the Force be with You Edition

May the Force be with You

This story is just too funny. Nothing I can say could possibly do it justice. Box of wine.....love it.

American Idiocy: Screwed by the Pooch Edition

Screwed by the Pooch

Here's a novel way to end one's political career. She doesn't even offer any proof as to the dog being "neglected" by the original owners. And it was on the Today show? Alice, Texas? I don't even know where in the state that is. Today must be hard up for news stories if they have to dig that far down. I hear there may be some rumblings about an incident with a ferret in Lebo, Montana. Perhaps that will merit national news time.

American Idiocy: Exercising Your Right Edition

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*Sigh*

Some people......

GRAH! I'm in a very ticked off mood right now.

While I'm looking for a full time teaching position for the fall, I'm currently working for a local tutoring agency. If a student is suspended or out for medical reasons for a decent amount of time, I get the call to help tutor them. Two hours per week, at $25 per hour, that makes for a $50 session. Obviously, this is nowhere near what I would earn in a school, so I need every assignment that comes my way. The other day I received a call that a student in a nearby town needed two sessions before he went back to school. "Great!", I thought, "that's $100 I could use to pay some bills." I got in touch with the parent on Wednesday and set it up that I would meet the student on Friday (today) at the local library.

I get to the library today (a 30 minute drive from my house) and no student. I wait around a few minutes in the lobby, then wander around the library wondering if the student was already there and perhaps set himself up at a table somewhere. No student, so I wait in the lobby for a few more minutes. Finally, I give the mother a call and tell her that her son has not shown up yet. Her response is that the school decided he could come back starting today so he was there and obviously wouldn't be coming.

WTF! First off, why is the school ending his suspension early? Secondly, the parent had my phone number, so why couldn't she get off her lazy ass and call me sometime before I had to leave for the library? They knew he was going back, and we weren't meeting until 12:30pm, so she had the time to let me know it was cancelled. Worse, the school is going to let him catch up with his missed work there, so no tutoring is required. All I get to do is put down 1 hour for a missed session, since I was there but the student wasn't, reason be damned. So my $100 two session student, became a 90 minute $25 waste of time. The other $75 I'm out for, no chance to make it up, and I could have used that to pay off a bill or two.

I'll live, but how rude can you get? The parent knew her son wasn't going to be at the session, so instead of calling me Thursday or this morning and telling me the news, I have to drive 30 minutes, wait 30 minutes, and drive home 30 minutes wasting time that I could have spent doing something more constructive. Maybe if I'm lucky, she'll get hit by a bus.

International Idiocy--Pissing Away Your Freedom Edition

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Denied the charges? Granted there's no database for this type of offense set up, so I imagine he was caught in the act....hard to deny that. And another incident featuring a guy in a kilt? I may not be completely knowledgeable when it comes to certain countries, but I've never heard of any animosity between Great Britain and Latvia. Or of anyone who would even care about that.

International Idiocy: Get Me to the Cemetery on Time Edition

Dateline: London

I love how the article states that "some people got very angry and had to be restrained by other mourners." Like the horses made some sort of a collective decision beforehand to disrupt everything. I can just envision these people suing the horses later on for inflicting emotional distress.


EDIT: 11:04pm Wow, do I sound bitter here. What got into me? I guess it's that I could understand being upset, but having to be restrained? If that happened to me, I'm not sure if anyone could really be blamed, horses do spook, but who would these people have gone after? The horses?

American (Well...International) Idiocy-- Chug-a-Lug Edition

Too bad.....he almost earned a Darwin Award.

Chug-a-Lug

American Idiocy-- Frank Said Edition

I once put serious thought into creating a reality show around this concept. I would travel the country finding examples of people doing idiotic things, but I wondered if it would come across as mean spirited. I still haven't given up total hope on it thought....but until then, enjoy this story on yet another person who can't understand why people won't accept bills of imaginary amounts. I especially love how the AP writer ended nearly every paragraph with "Frank said"; I guess he was the man to talk to.



Frank said