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A seven. StaggerLee swore that he threw eight.

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While his fun was not good, it was at least clean.

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Hey, I resemble that remark!

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There truly is NOTHING worse than a bad principal. The offspring - with his long hair and two nasal piercings, and his stubborn inability to comprehend the "no hats in school" rule - was a particular target of his high school principal's attention and it made his already difficult high school years a nightmare.

Despite the number of times the offspring told me "he literally hates me," I was unprepared for the phone call I got from the principal, accusing my liberal, oh-so-tolerant son of "a hate crime" involving anti-Semitic things being written in a textbook the offspring and four other guys were shoving around on a cafeteria table. Although all others involved agreed that the offspring left the cafeteria before the book was defaced, only the offspring and one other kid (the lone non-white kid, natch) were brought down to the office, questioned, and threatened with police questioning. The principal told me that he "wasn't sure" whether he could tell me in advance when the police would question my son, and, when I informed him that no questioning could take place without my presence, clearly indicated that now he knew where smart-mouthed kids get it from.

Before I could get an appointment with this dickhead, the offspring was suspended for a day (the actual defacer only got two days suspension) because, according to the principal, the owner of the book complained that the offspring had "stolen" it (a charge the book owner categorically denies making) and punishment for that had to be swift.

Due entirely to my ripping the principal several new orifices and flat-out telling him I knew he was lying about the theft charge, the incident and the suspension do not appear in the offspring's permanent record, but the scars run deep. As we drove away from graduation, the offspring leaned out the window and screamed "FUCK YOU" at the principal, and I didn't have the heart to say more than "now, now, dear...that's just bad manners."

You can imagine the offspring's satisfaction when Principal Dickhead was voted out this year.

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You HAVE to tell HS kids that it GETS BETTER! Especially in college! Where you can choose to hang out with people you have things in common with!

The most important thing to remember, is that you're going to move out of your sh===ty small town, and leave all those pathetic HS Administrators in the dust!

"Principal" Buchanan being a PRIME example! I remember my HS's "Student Affairs Administrator" giving me he== during the last couple months of HS and trying to make me as fearful of "consequences" as she could, and even threatened my college career, because I wasn't into the whole "going to class" or "eating in the cafeteria, bc I'd rather eat outside under a tree" and would rather be "making out in the dark auditorium" and "leaving school early" since I was already accepted to the university I wanted to go to and was SO OVER HS (except for all the fun sh==t I did w/ my friends).

SO, Don't worry awesome EVAN YOUNG! You WILL do great in life, and don't let those a==hole HS admin's clip your wings!!!!

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And just never left that leafy small town in Colorado. It's so true that Haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate.

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Not a valedictorian. Just a dick.

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The principal's name is BJ.

Bwhahahahahhahhahahahahahahahahhahhahhahahaha !!

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How is it possible that the same town can contain both Principal B.J. and the Left Hand Brewing Company? It's unpossible.

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Can't be bothered to figure out who's at fault for the fight, so let's just punish both parties. Can you imagine how it'd be if the courts worked that way?

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Gay... car? What would that even be like, dare I ask?

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what? . . . a principaled stand isn't good enough for you?

[ i think you're making a big misteak here ]

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Poke sallet, y'all.

http://www.southernfoodways...

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thank you . . . when i saw the photo my brain immediately started on a five-paragraph response . . . you said it better and saved me from having to type it.

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They are even assholier-than-thou (if that isn't a word, I just made it one) when they are Charter High School administrators.

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Or a big "no shit, Sherlock."

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