Sat 30 Aug 2008
The following gallery of pictures is one of those typical forwards we all receive via email from well-meaning friends, relatives, and people we barely know who’ve somehow, mysteriously managed to get their hands on our email addresses. I don’t mind them; most are saccharine nonsense, but every now and then you come across a gem.
This one’s a gem. Not because it’s particularly sublime, although it is rather amusing. Not because it’s true, either, because several of the photos are obviously jokes as opposed to authentic examples of lousy parenting.
No, it’s a gem because one of the pictures features my sister Shawna’s offspring, who was stunned to have this example of her lousy parenting skills forwarded to her out of the blue one day. Yet another reason why anything off the internet should be taken with a large grain of salt.
See if you can figure out which offspring is her:
September 1st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Based strickly on genetic look alikes I’m going with the “Bitch” T-Shirt.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:05 pm
hmmm. i dunno.
however, that blue haired clown
is very creepy looking!
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 am
ALL clowns are creepy looking!
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
I recognize my cousin, do I win a prize?
‘what a bad mom!’
funny picture, even funnier that she got it forwarded like that
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Not the bad parent or the clown…
September 9th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I’m guessing the canyon pic. But am I missing something? What’s the danger there? Is the picture too small that I can’t see the cliff? I don’t see a drop – why is this so bad?
September 10th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Yeah, it’s the Canyon pic… that’s my sister Shawna pretending to save her stepson. Obviously they were just horsing around, and then they posted it on their website, and the next thing they knew it was being distributed in this “Bad Parent’s chain mail.