dude, we OWNED back to school night. hollaaaaaahh ...

owen has a trick he employs to deal with high maintenance parents who corner you, pin you up on the wall, and talk your ear off at 9:30 pm when everyone's supposed to go home. he gets his wingman (whoever that might be) to come by and say "owen, don't be late -- we've got a teacher meeting in 5 minutes." yeah, like we'd really be doing that on a thursday night, but whatever. so kristin was caught last night by this freakish parent in serial denial about his daughter's substance abuse(s) and general psychoses, and owen did the drive by, oh yeah. sprung kristin, oh yeah.

the other interesting thing about back to school night is how you meet new parents who will assault you in the hallway to defend the honor of their child. it usually runs the gamut of "my child is very very bright, but s/he has trouble with paying attention" to "my child is a pathological liar, but s/he's very very bright. if you could just motivate them to love school" to "i don't know how to raise my child -- HELP ME." because i, at 25 and single, know things like how to raise crazy adolescents. *sigh* i love how every parent thinks their kid is the shiznit and the best thing to happen to the WORLD since sliced bread. hideyo calls them "parent blinders." i say "get your head out of your ass."