Or hypocritical? Or Jeffersonian, as my friends would say?
Last Monday, I guess that was a week ago, I helped out the local FFA Chapter by offering myself as a judge for the district competition. That in itself was very amusing to me, I almost burst out laughing a few times, but kept it in. Luckily I was the only one who found things amusing; if someone else had giggled, I would've completely lost it. I was also the only judge that was not a teacher--which is why I think I found it more amusing than the others. The other judges always have to listen to kids say silly things.
Anyhow, this is all moot, really. On my way to the high school to judge I passed a fairly large group of kids dressed as grim reapers. It was odd, but I forgot about it.
Fast forward to yesterday:
My brother and his wife stopped by after working cattle all day. We began talking about the FFA competitions (my brother was also a judge, as was my sister--they were smart and put us in different rooms). Then my brother started laughing and said "did you hear what happened with the students against drinking or whatever the hell that's called?"
I said "SADD--Students Against Drunk Driving?"
My brother said "Yes!"
Then went on to tell me that the day of the competition was the day that SADD decided to do their 'every 15 minutes' demonstration. They'd take a kid out of class, every 15 minutes, and dress them up like a grim reaper, then send them back to class; the point being that it works out so that every 15 minutes someone is killed by drunk driving. This explained the grim reapers that I saw, and my brother had seen them as well.
Well. Come to find out that 17 of the kids that organized this event rented hotel rooms after school and had a party! (i suppose they're not that hypocritical--they were drunk driving...)
I have no idea what they were thinking. I don't know if they thought it was funny to do this after their big demonstration day? If it just happened to be someone's birthday and they didn't really think of the correlation. Or, really, if they were temporarily STUPID. Which I think I can answer that question with a very strong YES.
No one, at least that I knew, rented hotel rooms to party while I was in high school. Prom night? Yes--but that was very rare and it usually only involved the kids whose parents were totally okay with this (that percentage being like 1.5%). Most parties happened at someone's house--or there was this shed on someone's property. Or orchards, gravel pits, etc.
Never hotel rooms. Why? because as soon as you check in someone's going to call someone and say "Did you know that your kid is renting a hotel room?" The town has 4,000 people in it. If you're going to rent a hotel room, best to drive ten miles to the next town to do so.
This is exactly what happened (the phone call that is). Coupled by the fact that one of the girls that was competing in the FFA contest that my brother was judging, texted one her friends during the competition, begging him to pick up a package and deliver it to the hotel for her--that they were having a 'party'. (we know this kid, by the way) The kid reluctantly did so and was met downtown by this huge, scary guy who gave him half a case of beer. Immediately the kid wanted to say 'no thanks', but was scared shitless to refuse anything from this dude, so he took the beer. on the way to the hotel room he pulled over, put the half case of beer on the corner of the road by a stop sign and texted the girl back saying "if you want your beer it's on the corner of such and such by the stop sign".
Then he went home.
So of course, the big news in our small town is how to punish these kids. The principal is out for blood. The kid who half-way delivered the goods is in trouble as well and doesn't know how to get himself out of it without being a snitch. blah blah blah, high school troubles.
I really hope that they had more than that half case of beer. 17 kids got in trouble (there could've been more involved). If they all got in trouble just for a half case, that means that they each didn't even get a full bottle of beer.
Comments (6)
LOL.....That's rich. Wonder if they were all still dressed as GR's? That would be a unique twist on a toga party.
what a total cock-up! my hs bff and I once went to a lot of trouble to get an older theatre guy to buy us a two liter of wine cooler one night. what a lot of useless effort for little reward.
lol Yea I don't think teens these days are the brightest bulbs in the box.
Wow, serves them right, really.
~ Sherri
Ridiculous. But maybe getting busted red-handed in such a hypocritical incident will help sort out their moral fiber a little. I'm sure I did my share of hypocritical stuff as a 17 year old. Getting caught and forced to face the fact that everyone knows and it's not cool may help with some character development. One can only hope.
It's major dumbass. They should be asked to volunteer with people whose lives have changed as a result of drunk driving. Seriously, that has given me a reality-check.
That's insane! If you're going to get in that much trouble, it should at least be worth it!