Sometimes society makes my soul hurt.

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

So I'm at work tonight, and there's this group of teenage kids that keep coming in and out of the store throughout the night. They come in for the final time about 15-20 minutes or so before closing. Another lady comes in with her teenage kid, and it turns out the lady's son is friends with one of the kids in the group that keeps coming in. They start talking.

The lady comes over and sees the kid, and starts talking to him, and then asks him "I heard you weren't in school, why not?"

The kid's reply: "My dad kept me out of school because we stayed up all night playing Black Ops"

My manager and I about lost our ****. My soul weeps.

 

[knowsbleed]

The buildup for the climax to your story is deceiving. I was hoping for a much more interesting outcome. *moves on*

 

[Jennifer Walters]

 

[The Question]

So I'm at work tonight, and there's this group of teenage kids that keep coming in and out of the store throughout the night. They come in for the final time about 15-20 minutes or so before closing. Another lady comes in with her teenage kid, and it turns out the lady's son is friends with one of the kids in the group that keeps coming in. They start talking.

The lady comes over and sees the kid, and starts talking to him, and then asks him "I heard you weren't in school, why not?"

The kid's reply: "My dad kept me out of school because we stayed up all night playing Black Ops"

My manager and I about lost our ****. My soul weeps.

Why? A kid skipped school. Big deal. Schools as they are right now, they're mostly a waste of people's time anyway.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Why? A kid skipped school. Big deal. Schools as they are right now, they're mostly a waste of people's time anyway.

No, it's the fact that the father pulled his kid out of school so they could stay up all night playing a video game.

I'm disappointed in the **** ass parenting, not the kid.

 

[Paroxysm]

The buildup for the climax to your story is deceiving. I was hoping for a much more interesting outcome. *moves on*

This.

 

[Paroxysm]

No, it's the fact that the father pulled his kid out of school so they could stay up all night playing a video game.

I'm disappointed in the **** ass parenting, not the kid.

Hey, at least he's not smoking meth or crack with him.

 

[The Question]

No, it's the fact that the father pulled his kid out of school so they could stay up all night playing a video game.

I'm disappointed in the **** ass parenting, not the kid.

Way I see it is this:

"Hey son, do you want to go to school, where you'll be bored out of your mind, forced to do things you have no passion for, penalized for trying to socialize (something that's far more important for your development than math) instead of listen to things you don't care about, and learn a bunch of stuff you're not going to remember come next year, or you you want to spend some quality time having fun with your dad?"

I can dig those priorities.

 

[JAK®]

So maybe this was just a one time occasion? The game only recently came out, after all. Perhaps the dad felt like treating him.

 

[Alex The Great]

So I'm at work tonight, and there's this group of teenage kids that keep coming in and out of the store throughout the night. They come in for the final time about 15-20 minutes or so before closing. Another lady comes in with her teenage kid, and it turns out the lady's son is friends with one of the kids in the group that keeps coming in. They start talking.

The lady comes over and sees the kid, and starts talking to him, and then asks him "I heard you weren't in school, why not?"

The kid's reply: "My dad kept me out of school because we stayed up all night playing Black Ops"

My manager and I about lost our ****. My soul weeps.

**** school. A man can learn everything he needs from parties and games

 

[Sebastos]

 

[knowsbleed]

Way I see it is this:

"Hey son, do you want to go to school, where you'll be bored out of your mind, forced to do things you have no passion for, penalized for trying to socialize (something that's far more important for your development than math) instead of listen to things you don't care about, and learn a bunch of stuff you're not going to remember come next year, or you you want to spend some quality time having fun with your dad?"

I can dig those priorities.

I wish my father would have helped me create some memories like that. I'm sure I would have remembered something like that for the rest of my life.

 

[Alex The Great]

He is a man among boys

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

LMAO!

I wish my father would have helped me create some memories like that. I'm sure I would have remembered something like that for the rest of my life.

My Dad and I played Die hard 2 once...Great times.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

So I'm at work tonight, and there's this group of teenage kids that keep coming in and out of the store throughout the night. They come in for the final time about 15-20 minutes or so before closing. Another lady comes in with her teenage kid, and it turns out the lady's son is friends with one of the kids in the group that keeps coming in. They start talking.

The lady comes over and sees the kid, and starts talking to him, and then asks him "I heard you weren't in school, why not?"

The kid's reply: "My dad kept me out of school because we stayed up all night playing Black Ops"

My manager and I about lost our ****. My soul weeps.

The solution is simple - when you have kids, don't do this.

 

[Kurosawa]

My parents let me skip school to go see Superman: The Movie when it first came out. There's nothing wrong with letting a kid have a day off for a special occasion as long as it's a normal day.

 

[WompuM]

Kid got to hang out and bond with his dad all night. Totally worth skipping school for. Can you imagine your dad wanting to play video games with you all night? That would be awesome.

*sigh* My dad called me today to see if I wanted to help him install a hardwood floor at the house over the weekend, but I am too swamped with homework. It's like Cats in the Cradle.

Excuse me, *sniff* Something in my eye. I've been chopping onions. I'm making a lasagna. . . for one.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

Good for the kids. Quality time with parents is very important. A single day missed won't do any harm unless they shirk studies all together. It's when parents ignore their children that they become screwed up.

The kids will appreciate the parents more and that's important in today's cutthroat age.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

Honestly, I envy kids who receive that kind of treatment. When I was a kid my parents didn't take me to any amusement parks, to any movie theaters, or to the mall to buy the latest video games on school nights or even weekends.

So when I read a story about a father letting his child skip school because they were up all night playing Black Ops? I get a little envious due to the fact that I wish my parents did that or allowed me to do that.

Most of my time was devoted to school work and if I wasn't doing that, my mother would have me do math problems, read books and write book reports on them, and etc. But as a whole? I guess it's a good thing to see that the dad treated him to something special.

 

[WompuM]

I miss my dad. We got to throw the football around a bit last time I was home though. I think next time I see him, we're going to build a nightstand, Norm Abram style.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I guess it's a different set of values then.

I certainly wasn't lacking any "quality" time with my parents, but when it came to video games, that's what the weekends were for. There was no reason to keep me out of school so that my parents and I could stay up all night playing video games.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

I guess it's a different set of values then.

I certainly wasn't lacking any "quality" time with my parents, but when it came to video games, that's what the weekends were for. There was no reason to keep me out of school so that my parents and I could stay up all night playing video games.

It was a one time thing. The game just came out and the kids were probably incredibly exited for it. I doubt they would have been able to concentrate in school with video games on the brain.

 

[enterthemadness]

Not to mention he history books in middle school and high school are Disney pg. Some good info everybody should know, but not all the gory sad details.

I learned in one college class that some people were asses to put it nicely. Men we taught were heroes? Yeah, more like murdering ass wipes. Shove off Columbus day and general custard. Think that general name. Horrible men.

 

[The Question]

I guess it's a different set of values then.

I certainly wasn't lacking any "quality" time with my parents, but when it came to video games, that's what the weekends were for. There was no reason to keep me out of school so that my parents and I could stay up all night playing video games.

The way I see it is, there's no reason not to keep the kid out of school. Especially just for one day. Having a solid bonding moment like that is far more useful for someone's development than school would be as it is now.

 

[Harry_Lime02]

I love it!