I was once a college student. And I occasionally ran afoul of some trouble, including stupidly getting car towed once when I parked in a retail lot next to the school that had plenty of signs saying that parking was for customers of the retail stores for that lot only, and that others would be towed. Including, of course, college students parking there to go to campus.
My mother is a nervous little old lady. Not just because she's 80, but because she's just about always been a nervous little old lady. And I'm gonna channel that nervous little old lady that raised me so I can tell you what she'd say to some of the reasons that girl and her mother raised for not being towed, if I had tried to use them when telling her about my own tale of car-towing woe.
MOM: "You're an adult now, aren't you? Time to act like one and deal with this."
MOM: "Did the complex require parking permits? They did? Deal with it."
MOM: "Did it not say in the lease something about parking permits? It did? Then deal with it."
MOM: "Wait, it was expired? For two weeks? And you didn't deal with it? Well, now you're gonna have to."
MOM: "Wait, you HAD the right permit for two weeks and you didn't bother putting it I your car? Well, just whose fault was that? Deal with it."
You might notice a theme here. My mom, when handed any of this idiocy, would have said, in her very polite, curse-free, nervous little old lady way, "Tough titties, jackass. You caused this shit on your own, you're gonna fucking fix this shit on your own." (As I said, she's politer than me.)
Or she would have uttered these classic words, as she often did with me and my sisters when we'd fuck up:
As I said, these are the things my my mother would have said to me in such a situation. I can't tell you what she DID say when I actually DID get towed, because I wasn't fucking stupid enough to tell her about it.
I just dealt with it.
My mother is a nervous little old lady. Not just because she's 80, but because she's just about always been a nervous little old lady. And I'm gonna channel that nervous little old lady that raised me so I can tell you what she'd say to some of the reasons that girl and her mother raised for not being towed, if I had tried to use them when telling her about my own tale of car-towing woe.
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You might notice a theme here. My mom, when handed any of this idiocy, would have said, in her very polite, curse-free, nervous little old lady way, "Tough titties, jackass. You caused this shit on your own, you're gonna fucking fix this shit on your own." (As I said, she's politer than me.)
Or she would have uttered these classic words, as she often did with me and my sisters when we'd fuck up:
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I just dealt with it.
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