It’s true. You are the only person on the planet who doesn’t drive me nuts. Thank you for being there for me when everyone else is fraying my last nerve.
This episode I complain about Reel Reviews bumping my on KYOU.COM, inappropriate library behavior and selling Mongo!
Thanks to Bibb and Yaz for the heads up regarding the New York Times mention. Apparently complaining about your kids and admitting you’re a moron is “sublime.” (Thank goodness!)
Eiji (right), Mongo (with fake plate) and friend. I confirmed: the friend is not, in fact, Irish.
“Love is the bridge that transcends the gulf between one soul to another, issues are the weight that breaks those bridges.” m.d.
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Hey Dan,
I haven’t listened to the show yet, just checking out your blog – just a thought, but maybe you should fade out the licence plate number on Mongo!!
Looking forward to listening.
Cat
http://www.CatFishShow.com
That picture is hilarious. I love it.
Thanks, Cat. I’d forgotten. It’s been updated with a fake plate…
– dK
Thanks, Cat. I’d forgotten. It’s been updated with a fake plate…
– dK
Dan,
The thing about the library or anywhere else for that matter is so true. I am a SAHD (don’t like that tag) and the woman really don’t watch their kids like the men do. This happens all the time with me. I am out at the Park, Library, etc and the woman are talking to each other not watching their kids while they, the kids, are going crazy. Once 3 of us dads were in Borders and we let our kids go a little crazy for once. Right away, the woman that worked in the store were irritated and they said something to us. Never have I been in a store with kids going nuts has a store employee said anything to a mom. So, no, I don’t think my kids or the others were that bad. I think the employees expected more from us dads and never would have said anything to the woman. Double edged sword. Yes.
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Sorry Rob, but yer being a MCP! Oink oink oink. This mom here has no problems telling her children to knock it off when they act inappropriately in public. Heck I even tell other people’s kids to tow the line. Like this past Saturday, when some small boys were throwing stones at the playground. I told them to “Drop the rocks” and stood there until they did. I have no clue where the parental units were, but hey, it takes a village, right?
That reminds me of a time that my husband and I went to the movies with two other couples. A couple of minutes after we had settled into our seats, a handful of middle school kids zip into the row in front of us, chatting loudly and obnoxiously. This continued into the beginning of the movie. We all exchanged glances of “are we going to have to endure these twerps all evening”. So I leaned over and whispered something to them. They looked at each other, put their heads together for a moment and filed out of the row, moving far away from us. My friends were amazed at my powers! And yet, all I had said to them was “Would you please be quiet? We can’t hear the movie.” Who know where their parents were?
Anyway, my point is, don’t lump all us “mommies” together. Plenty of us are in charge and not afraid to show it in public places.
Dan,
This’ll be my first comment, but I can’t think of a better show to start with. I work in a library, y’see…
Hats off to you, kudos, trumpets & banners, and a ticker tape parade to you for taking control of the situation with the kids in the library.
All too often, one of us will have to corral a tyke or two that have just been dropped off at the library, like we’re county-funded @#$@# daycare or something. Or like you said, the parents will be off in la-la land, checking e-mail on the public computers, having loud and obnoxious conversations on their cell phone or to one of their SUV driving, butch professional soccer-mom buddies while their untrained feral offspring wreak havoc and mayhem.
Fortunately, we’re here in the Virginia Highland country; southern enough and “we’re all one big family” enough that other patrons will often call down the kids, then go call down their parents. When that doesn’t work, we’ve got a couple of short, hillfolk grannies that can snap a finger and give a look that calms most of them down right away.
I’ve heard one of our ol’ biddy librarians whisper to a troublemaker “you gonna settle down, or do we need to go out back and have a little talk?” Don’t know about the rest of y’all, but around here those words can strike fear into all sorts of folks.
Anyway, this has been an awfully long and semi-coherent comment, so I’ll leave it there. Keep up the great show, and I’ll try not to comment so often the servers choke!
Jason, those words can strike fear in a hearty *Bostonian!* Especially in the right accent — call Dan so I can hear your voice on his show again. He should hire you to do promos!
Great show, Dan. I have moments when everyone drives me crazy but you, too. There’s something about the distance and structure of the internet … your smooth voice, my witty comments … so much more soothing and comforting than getting your car-bumper ripped off or corraling someone else’s screaming children in the library …
… not that I’m an intimacy-phobic control-freak, mind you.
~ honeybee33, shudding up now in Beantown ~
Er…my voice has been heard on the Pill? Did I drink and dial again?
*grin*
Jason in VA
dan klass!
new listener here. also hate every living being today. also hate bad moms and dads who don’t reign their kids in. trust me, at least in ohio this is not a mom only thing. ex: sahd’s kid, throwing sand in to my little girl’s eyes, sahd quips FINALLY “ooh, sweetie, you should ask the little girl before you play that way…” uh…ask my 2 y/o if she would enjoy being BLINDED WITH SAND???
your podcast is funny as hell. wish we could have you over for vodka.
I think this is going on my Favorites list, Dan! I almost peed my pants I was laughing so hard from the bit about the classroom coffee. You totally speak the things I think all the time… and I don’t even have kids yet. Right on…. LOVE the show.
Like your show and have been listening for a while. Really enjoyed hearing you take a stand in favor of gay marriage in prior show. Made me really furious that you wimp out of it in this show. Which surprised me. I listen to lots of folks I don’t always agree with and just shrug it off. Something about backing off; apologizing for speaking your truth seems wrong.
Dan- you mad man! Love the show.
In regard to the library “fun day” you had. I teach elementary school students. If I had been in that situation, I would have made it clear to all the kids that the area is not a playground, and they need to use indoor manners. And yes YOU can do that too, because YOU are an adult and you (happily) act like an adult when it comes to respect and responsibility. If that didn’t work out to your satisfaction, then you take your kids out (as you did) and let the library employees know that you’re unhappy with the situation.
Hey folks,when you become an adult- STEP UP TO THE PLATE!! Teach young people (your kids, other kids) that they are NOT in charge. Be serious about it. Set a good example. My feeling is that not ALL of our parents’ ideas about respect for others and for proper behavior can be classified as “uptight”. I still remove my hat in a public building, I still say please and thank you, I still chew with my mouth closed. If other parents can’t do that, I’ll happily insert myself in and politely attempt to correct the behaviour. Respect and responsibility. It ain’t rocket science folks…
Have a nice day… or not.
Tom Hitt Cycling Troll
… Sad, when my children where younger (6 and 3) I actually gave up visiting the park next to my apt. at primetime.
Other moms seemed to “check out” mentally from watching their kids. These kids where not just misbehaving but being down right DISTRUCTIVE! I grew tired of telling kids “please don’t peel the paint off that building honey”or “that steel rods will hurt the stroller if you keep hitting it like that.” oh yes and my favorite “stop putting wood chips in the laundry vents!”
I just listened to your library fun day and it reminded of me when my son was young and we being good parents would hang at the pool. Hey the sign says if you are under 14 you must be accompanied by a parent. NOT accompanied by some strange adults that happen to be at the pool with their kid. We used to get so pissed when like at hotel pools, people would stop by with their even toddlers and seeing adults at the pool would just drop them off. We had a lot of fun immediatly calling into the front desks right before we ran out of the place. After all, we didn’t want to watch some other person’s kid drown.
Love ya and your attitude!!!
S
p.s. Nice Mongo-mobile
Eiji’s name is pronounced Eh Ee Jee, and surprisingly, is my favorite japanese name.
Love your podcast, Klass.