Mom sells rule-breaking son's car

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Good Morning America? BBC? This is crazy! I'm clearly in the minority here in thinking that the attention this story has received is absurd. The kid is 19! He's an adult! He reneged on an agreement--an agreement between adults, I might add--so the person who bought the car (who happens to be his mother) took it away. That's it.

I don't understand why this shameless attention ####### of a mommy is being hailed as some kind of heroic parent. She is getting a lot of congratulations from idiots who apparently consider a 19-year-old college kid a child, and she to be a kick-a$$, law-down-the-law parent. So she took the car away. This kind of stuff happens all the time. I knew a couple of kids in college whose education, including living expenses, was fully paid for by their parents (or would have been). In both cases, the kids partied too much and flunked out the first year. If they wanted to return to school the following semester (on academic probation), they had to fund it themselves, end of story. They were both 18 at the time. Where was the media then? Why wasn't that a big story? Oh yeah, there was no classified ad saying, "World's meanest dad is making Brooke pay her own tuition! Send your camera crew to my house!"

I think the fact that this has been such a big story says more about our lame media and society than it does about the kid, or indeed his dumb-a$$ mother.

Totally O/T but I wonder who the mother will vote for in November...

[Mags 112]

I'm not trying to say she was wrong in selling the car, it would be the same for me. But she's done tons of interviews and is on the national news. She was on good morning america (sorry I was wrong about the today show) this morning and said she got calls from the BBC even... Honestly do what you have to do but to go on national TV and talk about it?

She could also try getting thrown off a South West Airlines plane for wearing a short skirt. That works too, apparently, if you are in need of some publicity.

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Ohmygosh, Joyce. You're really throwing off the Sunday gloves here!

I've never seen this side of you.

Fear not, this is Joyce's alter ago. You can find Joyce Classic in her thread. Nothing but Cool Whip, polyester, and grooviness over there!

[Empress of Groovy 373]

Totally O/T but I wonder who the mother will vote for in November...

Some joker will probably select her as a running mate.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Good Morning America? BBC? This is crazy! I'm clearly in the minority here in thinking that the attention this story has received is absurd. The kid is 19! He's an adult! He reneged on an agreement--an agreement between adults, I might add--so the person who bought the car (who happens to be his mother) took it away. That's it.

I don't understand why this shameless attention ####### of a mommy is being hailed as some kind of heroic parent. She is getting a lot of congratulations from idiots who apparently consider a 19-year-old college kid a child, and she to be a kick-a$$, law-down-the-law parent. So she took the car away. This kind of stuff happens all the time. I knew a couple of kids in college whose education, including living expenses, was fully paid for by their parents (or would have been). In both cases, the kids partied too much and flunked out the first year. If they wanted to return to school the following semester (on academic probation), they had to fund it themselves, end of story. They were both 18 at the time. Where was the media then? Why wasn't that a big story? Oh yeah, there was no classified ad saying, "World's meanest dad is making Brooke pay her own tuition! Send your camera crew to my house!"

I think the fact that this has been such a big story says more about our lame media and society than it does about the kid, or indeed his dumb-a$$ mother.

Well said.