damonk ([info]damonk13) wrote,
@ 2004-01-29 19:44:00
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Current mood:admiring my pop
Current music:the sound of me admiring my pop

THE DAD SAGA CONTINUES...
Well, for those of you who already saw the original post from a little while ago, you won't believe this next installment in the soap opera that is my dad trying to help some kids...











Can you BELIEVE that??? How heartless can bureaucracy be when it treats people like this, no matter HOW many nice people try to help them???

*sigh*

My dad tells me that there's one more article coming, but hasn't told me what it is yet -- he's keeing us in suspense.

God, but I hope that it'll be a happy ending for Veronique Gariepy. She's really a sweet girl, she's had one helluva tough life, and she deserves a break.

And my dad? He's been spoiling them rotten, and I'm so happy he is... he brought them bowling the other week, and to a movie another time, and so on... he's SUCH an incredible fellah.

God, but how I hope that some people who are reading these newspaper articles in Dieppe will protest the school board's idiotic decision.

Go dad. I'm rootin' for ya. Big time.



[EDIT: fixed the second half of the news article so you don't see the same image twice]

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[info]mailechan
2004-01-29 05:01 pm UTC (link)
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You're father is one of the cool ones of the world (no pun intended).

Speaking as a child who lived barely within the busing limit (we walked 1/8 of a mile OUT to get to the bus stop) I understand the feeling. Even though it was Hawaii, in moderate temperature, going out there all by yourself and coming back is scary. It was either that, however, or walk right along one of the busiest streets in town (with no sidewalk) the almost 2 miles from home to middle school. I hope there is a happy ending to this.

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-29 05:42 pm UTC (link)
yep.

And the fact that the kids are 7 and *5* is what kills me.

Now that I've added the rest of the article, read it, and you'll see that the story gets worse. It's SOOOO unfair!

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[info]mailechan
2004-01-29 09:15 pm UTC (link)
You're right, that's awful! So that's how good deeds are rewarded in this world? *shakes an angry fist at the gods of irony*

Still, I have to say that I'm not very impressed with this neighbor. If he can drive his own kid to school, how hard is it to help by taking two other kids?

Have I mentioned that your dad is cool? ^_^

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-30 05:24 am UTC (link)
I've been wondering about that, too, actually. I'm hoping that maybe he IS helping out, or that someone else is helping out right now...

Knowing me dad, he'll prolly start bringing them to school soon if no one else does.

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[info]droolfangrrl
2004-01-29 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Ijits! The world is fulla Ijits!

P.S. You posted the first part of the article twice, and the second part not at all. I don't suppose....?

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-29 05:40 pm UTC (link)
Fixed!

And yep, idjits everywhere...

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[info]josh_nickerson
2004-01-29 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Ugh. That sucks. I hope some sort of solution can be found.

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-29 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, totally.

They SO deserve a break. I mean really. such young kids, forced to walk like that???

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[info]bup6518
2004-01-29 06:08 pm UTC (link)
Your dad sounds cool. He's someone I wouldn't mind hanging with.

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[info]krischan
2004-01-29 06:21 pm UTC (link)
Me too. We should go out for a beer. Of course, none of us live anywhere near each other ...

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-29 06:25 pm UTC (link)
Hehehehe...

One day, though! When one of us wins the lottery and can afford to get all the rest of us together in some bar! ^_^

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-29 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Hehehehe...

One day, though! When one of us wins the lottery and can afford to get all the rest of us together in some bar! ^_^

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[info]bup6518
2004-01-29 07:03 pm UTC (link)
A "Damonk's Live Journal-con" in Canada, with the three of us.
In about 15 days I can legally drink there.

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-29 06:24 pm UTC (link)
Coolness is certainly my papa, yes yes.

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[info]bup6518
2004-01-29 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Like father, like son, eh?

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[info]bup6518
2004-01-29 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Like father, like son, eh?

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[info]bup6518
2004-01-29 07:06 pm UTC (link)
Like father, like son, eh?

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[info]smilodon
2004-01-29 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Your dad's really cool Frank. Its amazing how universal school board burracracy is.

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[info]esyla
2004-01-29 08:10 pm UTC (link)
The superintendent was not available for comment. Ha! Not surprising.

I hope that there can be a solution for these kids. It's a crime to make them walk thatr far in freezing temperatures, especially with a baby in tow!

Your dad sounds like a real prince, Frank.

Oh, and by the way: I resent having to click on a link that says "have a beer" to leave a comment in your lj ^_~

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[info]damonk13
2004-01-30 05:25 am UTC (link)
Just think of it as a Jones Root Beer, and you'll be fine? ^_^

And yeah, he is, and these recent examples aren't even coming CLOSE to scratching the surface of his goodness.

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[info]dangermonki
2004-01-30 07:10 am UTC (link)
Good grief. That's just, well, stupid! And that's so strange, too, since I live within a mile of my high school, and I didn't have to walk (I did, anyway, but that was because of the people on the bus). That's just crazy. I can't belive a school system would condone such a dangerous trek to get to school. Don't they care about the safety of their students? I mean, hello! That's supposed to be a reason for having the buses in the first place! Grrrr...It's just not fair.

I'm glad your dad is doing whatever he can for the family, though. They do deserve better than that.

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[info]rjmoya
2004-01-30 07:28 am UTC (link)
Your dad's in the newspaper a lot. Not that it makes him less awesome. I bet the next story is going to be about how he BOUGHT a bus and now drives all the kids in his neighborhood to school.

Bureaucracy sucks.

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[info]coldacid
2004-01-30 04:21 pm UTC (link)
I doubt it, but I wouldn't be surprised...

Damonk, your father is teh supar neet! :D

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