pam Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 A woman in North Dakota is planning on handing out letters as well as candy, to the parents of the children she feels is obese. What are your thoughts on this?Woman plans to hand out obesity letters to trick-or-treators this Halloween | Deseret News Quote
Quin Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 A woman in North Dakota is planning on handing out letters as well as candy, to the parents of the children she feels is obese. What are your thoughts on this?Woman plans to hand out obesity letters to trick-or-treators this Halloween | Deseret NewsThis makes me furious. Fighting mad. Spitting mad. Swearing mad. ...My 9yo son almost died. A lot. As in months in the hospital, "The FIRST time they call a code on your kid is really scary", many many surgeries, touch and go for over a year. The med that finally WORKED has a side effect: weight gain. So he went from being a competitive gymnast to rolly poly, love handles, pudge. He doubled his weight (75lbs to 140) in a year. The GRIEF he's had to put up with in UNGODLY. Literally. His punishment for living is that people get to look down on him, give him all kinds of unsolicited BAD advice, and just generally be evil. JUST like this officious nasty awful thing. Her "good intentions" aren't just paving a road for herself... She's causing pain and suffering to these kids and their families. Ugh! I don't care about me. I can put someone in a smack down in about 10 seconds flat if I care to... Although let me just say how AWESOME it is to have parents and strangers thinking you're a bad parent. Constantly. It's stellar. I actively HATE people like this lady. Which may not be very christian of me, but I'd really like to rock a bit of Old Testament judgement on these kids of people. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe. Yeah. Major sore spot. Where's the Tasmanian Devil spluttering mad emoticon when you need it? Q Quote
skippy740 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 A woman in North Dakota is planning on handing out letters as well as candy, to the parents of the children she feels is obese. What are your thoughts on this?Woman plans to hand out obesity letters to trick-or-treators this Halloween | Deseret News If you can't say anything nice... why bother saying anything at all? Quote
beefche Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 When asked why she couldn't simply refrain from handing out any Halloween candy, Cheryl said she doesn't want to ruin tradition or miss out on the fun."I don't want to be the mean lady. I don't want to be the lady everybody avoids," Cheryl told the radio station. "I want all the kids to appreciate that I care about them. I don't want to be against tradition. I just feel like parents should take more responsibility for their kids to be little fat kids." Oh, that was good. Whew! I had to wipe my tears away from that one it was so funny (as well as her grammatical error in her oh so kind letter). Quote
Jenamarie Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 I strongly suspect her front door is going to look like custard by the time the evening is through, if she follows through with this. Quote
pam Posted October 31, 2013 Author Report Posted October 31, 2013 Where's the Tasmanian Devil spluttering mad emoticon when you need it? QRight here. It's one of the emoticons you can choose. Quote
pam Posted October 31, 2013 Author Report Posted October 31, 2013 She doesn't want to be the mean lady. Nope not at all. Letters stating your kid is obese and you might want to hold your kid back from eating candy is not mean at all. Quote
Wingnut Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 Oh, and there's a village somewhere glad to be rid of its idiot. Quote
Windseeker Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 I like my letter betterToday your child worshiped Satan in exchange for some sweets.Happy Halloween! Quote
mnn727 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 Come on Quin, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel. Quote
Backroads Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 Busybody to the extreme. Now, I'm admittedly on the side of the fence that the awesomely healthy overweight person/kid is the exception rather than the rule, but this is none of her business. It's rude, it's unneccessary, and could backfire. Quote
Bini Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) It's pretty dang cheeky to open your mouth and criticize someone when you don't know that person or their story. Even so, if you can't be kind - shut it - I think she needs a lesson from Thumper. Edited October 31, 2013 by Just_A_Guy Quote
Wingnut Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 It's rude, it's unneccessary, and could backfire.Could? I have no doubt that it will.She'll think she's being anonymous, but (1) there's already the news story; and (2) the type of person who does this is already the type of person that no one in the neighborhood likes, and they'll all know who she is. Quote
beefche Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 I like my letter betterPlease, please, PLEASE tell me you don't really mean any of this, even the tiniest bit. Because Halloween has NEVER been about Satan or worshipping him. Quote
beefche Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 When I first read the story, I said to my cow-orkers, "Now's here's a woman just begging for flaming bags of poo!" Quote
Windseeker Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 Please, please, PLEASE tell me you don't really mean any of this, even the tiniest bit. Because Halloween has NEVER been about Satan or worshipping him.Do you see the dude?The dude is always never serious....respect the dude Quote
Bini Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 Could? I have no doubt that it will.She'll think she's being anonymous, but (1) there's already the news story; and (2) the type of person who does this is already the type of person that no one in the neighborhood likes, and they'll all know who she is.This is typically spot on. But I have a personal experience that ended up being totally opposite. There used to be an older lady who lived next door to my parents. She lived by herself, with the exception of some indoor cats. She was the definition of 'busybody' and seemed to always make a stink about this or that, and tattle to the cops whenever someone parked the wrong way on the street, or complained to parents when their teens blared music from out of their cars. She ended up with a rather bad rap, especially from us kids on the block. So fast forward years later, a lot of us 'kids' moved out and married, and at some point we've all returned back home to visit our folks. When this lady heard that I had married and had a baby, she went out of her way and crocheted this beautiful blanket for the baby. It was done in all the cute colours for a little girl. My mum said that she'd been working on it for awhile. I realised then, maybe she isn't such a bad apple after all. Hehe. Quote
Backroads Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 Could? I have no doubt that it will.She'll think she's being anonymous, but (1) there's already the news story; and (2) the type of person who does this is already the type of person that no one in the neighborhood likes, and they'll all know who she is.If she is happily giving interviews, she ain't asking for anonymity. Quote
beefche Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 That's a sweet story, Bini. I'm guessing that her "busybody" ways was due to loneliness. Quote
Backroads Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 That's a sweet story, Bini. I'm guessing that her "busybody" ways was due to loneliness.Agreed. Plus probably a bit of pure generational value differences that the younger folks just don't get. Misunderstanding, not meanness. Quote
Bini Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 Agreed. Plus probably a bit of pure generational value differences that the younger folks just don't get. Misunderstanding, not meanness.You are right.She was very outspoken. Before she moved back to New York where she is originally from, I remember running into her outside of my parents' house, getting mail or something. There were some new youngsters running about the culdesac. Making a ruckus and for being about 8 or 9, were using some pretty foul language. This lady straight up said out loud, "I ought to wash your mouth out with soap! Don't you be using language like that around here!" She was not LDS, she was Catholic, we had a lot of retired Catholic folks in that neighbourhood. Quote
Guest Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 If she is happily giving interviews, she ain't asking for anonymity.Yeah... I wondered about that... how did the newspaper know she planned on handing out letters? I mean, it would be different if somebody got a letter and sent it to the newspaper. Okay, I didn't read the article. They probably mentioned it there.... Quote
Backroads Posted October 31, 2013 Report Posted October 31, 2013 I recall reading an article on KSL yesterday that said she agreed to do an interview. I also want to say she has done this in the past... Quote
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