It really sickens me sometimes how bad people are at parenting their kids. My girlfriend's boss is becoming friends with my girlfriend, and she came over to hang out yesterday. Whenever she does this, and she's done it 3-4 times now, she brings her little 8-year-old daughter with her. She absolutely shouldn't have a daughter, and neither should my girlfriend.
The boss came over to get a tarot card reading from my girlfriend. My girlfriend had to use the instruction manual to do it. Apparently this didn't make the reading any less amazing for her boss, because she was freaking out the entire time while my girlfriend rattled off nonsense and bullshit for an hour.
Meanwhile, the daughter is just here. Brought along. Like a purse, to be set down by the door and picked up on the way out. This is how it is every time they come over. So the daughter gets here and says, "I want to play Wii." My girlfriend asks me to set it up, and I politely say, "I can't right now, you do it." I really couldn't, because I was in the middle of something, but more than that I felt like if my girlfriend is going to invite an 8-year-old to my house she should have to deal with the kid. It's not that I didn't want to do it. I like kids. I just felt like my girlfriend needed to take care of it, because the kid was her responsibility. Her mother certainly wasn't going to do it, she was completely focused on her bullshit.
So my girlfriend tries and fails to get the Wii working, and after what had to have been fifteen minutes I say, "let me do it." The kid, at this point, was getting restless, and I didn't blame her. So I get it working in a minute or two, and I teach the kid how to play real quick. She was playing Mario Party 8 and I had her doing nothing but mini-games. Each mini-game has an intro that tells you what the goal is, and what the control scheme is. I asked the kid, "can you read?" She enthusiastically responded yes. I said, "okay, go here to find out what you have to do, and here to find out how you play, then click here to play." She picked it up very quickly and I didn't need to help her at all once I explained it to her. I was impressed.
Periodically throughout her playing, she would say something like, "mom, I'm thirsty." To which her mom or my girlfriend would reply something like, "that's too bad for you" or "guess you're out of luck." That seems... bad. That seems more than bad, that seems fucking shitty. Take thirty seconds out of your stupid bullshit to get your kid a glass of water. Or, she would say "mom, watch!" The mom would reply, "Mom's doing her own thing right now." Wow, great.
While my girlfriend's boss was over her boyfriend (I gather) called, and I could instantly tell that, that's where her priorities were. The phone call consisted of, on the end I could hear, "I really miss you. I want to see you. Can you come over tonight? I miss you. I love you. Can you come over? I want to see you." After the phone call, I gathered that the tarot reading was all about boys. Not that it was hard to gather that in the first place.
There's a mini-game on Mario Party 8 that has you shaking soda cans competitively. The motion looks like, if you choose to associate every type of up and down motion with your hand in this way like a giggling middle schooler, a handjob. My girlfriend and her boss couldn't stop giggling and smirking to each other. Nevermind that the kid was having a good time, or that she won the mini-game. It looked like a handjob, and that's funny, right?
So then the kid says, "I'm hungry." And the mom says, "Okay, let's go home. I want to take a bath. I guess I can make you dinner after my bath." The mom that was just giggling and smirking about a hand motion that looked vaguely sexual to someone immature enough to see it that way is now going to draw herself a bath and most likely masturbate (and feel guilty or gross about it afterwards) before she fixes her daughter something to eat. And I'd be willing to bet that whatever that kid is eating tonight came entirely from either a box, a can, or a frozen box/can. I'd bet my next paycheck on it.
I'm just saying. Some people shouldn't have children. Some people are shitty fucking parents. That kid is going to grow up with a mom that neglects her and no dad at all. It will be a miracle if she comes out of that experience as a healthy, well adjusted, confident, independent adult. And it's sad.
The boss came over to get a tarot card reading from my girlfriend. My girlfriend had to use the instruction manual to do it. Apparently this didn't make the reading any less amazing for her boss, because she was freaking out the entire time while my girlfriend rattled off nonsense and bullshit for an hour.
Meanwhile, the daughter is just here. Brought along. Like a purse, to be set down by the door and picked up on the way out. This is how it is every time they come over. So the daughter gets here and says, "I want to play Wii." My girlfriend asks me to set it up, and I politely say, "I can't right now, you do it." I really couldn't, because I was in the middle of something, but more than that I felt like if my girlfriend is going to invite an 8-year-old to my house she should have to deal with the kid. It's not that I didn't want to do it. I like kids. I just felt like my girlfriend needed to take care of it, because the kid was her responsibility. Her mother certainly wasn't going to do it, she was completely focused on her bullshit.
So my girlfriend tries and fails to get the Wii working, and after what had to have been fifteen minutes I say, "let me do it." The kid, at this point, was getting restless, and I didn't blame her. So I get it working in a minute or two, and I teach the kid how to play real quick. She was playing Mario Party 8 and I had her doing nothing but mini-games. Each mini-game has an intro that tells you what the goal is, and what the control scheme is. I asked the kid, "can you read?" She enthusiastically responded yes. I said, "okay, go here to find out what you have to do, and here to find out how you play, then click here to play." She picked it up very quickly and I didn't need to help her at all once I explained it to her. I was impressed.
Periodically throughout her playing, she would say something like, "mom, I'm thirsty." To which her mom or my girlfriend would reply something like, "that's too bad for you" or "guess you're out of luck." That seems... bad. That seems more than bad, that seems fucking shitty. Take thirty seconds out of your stupid bullshit to get your kid a glass of water. Or, she would say "mom, watch!" The mom would reply, "Mom's doing her own thing right now." Wow, great.
While my girlfriend's boss was over her boyfriend (I gather) called, and I could instantly tell that, that's where her priorities were. The phone call consisted of, on the end I could hear, "I really miss you. I want to see you. Can you come over tonight? I miss you. I love you. Can you come over? I want to see you." After the phone call, I gathered that the tarot reading was all about boys. Not that it was hard to gather that in the first place.
There's a mini-game on Mario Party 8 that has you shaking soda cans competitively. The motion looks like, if you choose to associate every type of up and down motion with your hand in this way like a giggling middle schooler, a handjob. My girlfriend and her boss couldn't stop giggling and smirking to each other. Nevermind that the kid was having a good time, or that she won the mini-game. It looked like a handjob, and that's funny, right?
So then the kid says, "I'm hungry." And the mom says, "Okay, let's go home. I want to take a bath. I guess I can make you dinner after my bath." The mom that was just giggling and smirking about a hand motion that looked vaguely sexual to someone immature enough to see it that way is now going to draw herself a bath and most likely masturbate (and feel guilty or gross about it afterwards) before she fixes her daughter something to eat. And I'd be willing to bet that whatever that kid is eating tonight came entirely from either a box, a can, or a frozen box/can. I'd bet my next paycheck on it.
I'm just saying. Some people shouldn't have children. Some people are shitty fucking parents. That kid is going to grow up with a mom that neglects her and no dad at all. It will be a miracle if she comes out of that experience as a healthy, well adjusted, confident, independent adult. And it's sad.
your girlfriends boss (and girlfriend, in this blog at least) sounds like a horrible person.