Which one of you is an idiot

[DaveL]

As a 20 year classroom veteran..... You should see what some people send us to educate.
I had a dad this week drop his 15 year old daughter off at school blackout drunk.
When I asked him why, he told me he had better things to do.
Yep....DHS called.
Some years you just scratch your head and wonder what was in the water the year a group of kids was conceived.




Oh, they do propagate, and most of the offspring become teachers... I'm voting for the moron on the right.

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I was at a public school where they dropped off a young child for first day of grade one. Child didn't speak english. Wasn't registered. They tried every language staff and children knew. End of the day they waited for the parent to return...did.

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[Klutch]

I was at a public school where they dropped off a young child for first day of grade one. Child didn't speak english. Wasn't registered. They tried every language staff and children knew. End of the day they waited for the parent to return...did.
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OK, we're drifting here, but when I was in fourth grade, many of my neighbors adopted Vietnamese war orphans. Many of those orphans came to my school not speaking English. Tragically, my classmates weren't very nice to them. Years later, they graduated from UCLA, opened their own businesses and drove great big cars made by Mercedes Benz. Yep. They showed us how to be Americans.

 

[Mtpisgah]

Many years ago I drove into our garage with kayaks on the roof. Two years later, a bike. It happens.

One time I drove my Saab into a parking garage with two bikes on the roof. Checked the advertised height and all was good. Got to the exit and it ramped up abruptly reducing the clearance. I had to unload two bikes and take them outside while my wire drove the car. The cars behind us where not happy...screw them.

 

[DocMike]

Kid was. Police and DHS involved.
Dad didn't want to deal with it so it became our issue.
We get every element of society. Great parents to absent to downright criminally abusive.
Yes we are drifting.

Teachers get slammed a lot. Especially these days.
But we do the best with the kids we get. I always took pride in teaching kids how to think and not what to think. Socratic method and open discourse. Good education is not indoctrination.
It stimulates the mind and encourages kids to ask questions and find their own answers.
I have laid the foundation for doctors, lawyers, Marines, Soldiers, mechanics, artists, poets etc....
Best moment was watching an old student and young Marine get his wings (he flies Cobra Gunships now). We sat down and had a drink. He told me my practices were harder than bootcamp.




So, was the dad drunk or was the daughter drunk? Or was it both? Was the daughter literally passed out from drinking so much? (Sorry, I'm a bit confused here.)

I'm old enough to know it's nothing new. When I was a kid, my dad and all his friends used to drive with beers between their legs.
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[Mac Attack]

I resemble that comment

We have all done stupid stuff...anyone on here that doesn't admit it...it's because their stupid stuff is more stupid than yours. If it didn't kill you, it will make you stronger (or hopefully in this case...smarter, less forgetful...whatever, you get the idea).

 

[GrubbyBaja]

Had a friend do that with his 4-runner. $3k bike totaled, bike rack destroyed, damage to vehicle, and garage. Shxx happens. I throw my mountain bike over the tailgate and am still paranoid that my seat sticks up about an inch higher than the roof, so I use my dropper and push it down.

 

[dcmdon]

This is my methodology.

We were skiing this weekend and my daughter forgot to bring her gloves to to the mountain. I asked her why she was walking around with her gloves in her hand this morning. She was like "huh".

I explained to her that the night before I use a PAPER checklist to confirm. everything I need and put it all into my boot bag. I idiot proof the process for myself as much as possible. Because if I am given an opportunity to screw it up. I will. ha.

 

[FrankFrqnkFrank]

I’ve done it twice.

On a college visit with two youngest kids in the Suburban, was waived into a below-ground parking lot by a nice upper classsman volunteer. I didn’t even think about checking the height limitation. The initial indication of a problem was hearing the roof rack scrape into a concrete ceiling.

And earlier we were on vacation and decided to get some fast food in our Dodge B2500 van with 6 bikes up top. The restaurant had no max height sign because they couldn’t have imagined a vehicle as high as ours with a driver as I unalert as me. One of the bikes needed a new seat

both entirely on me.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

OK, we're drifting here, but when I was in fourth grade, many of my neighbors adopted Vietnamese war orphans. Many of those orphans came to my school not speaking English. Tragically, my classmates weren't very nice to them. Years later, they graduated from UCLA, opened their own businesses and drove great big cars made by Mercedes Benz. Yep. They showed us how to be Americans.

Yeah, I suppose we are drifting but so what as long no one gets their panties in a bunch.

I’m Hispanic, was born here as were my parents and have always spoken English. But my brother-in-law was born in Mexico and came as a 10 year old, didn’t speak a word of English. They put him in class with other 5th graders and as we all know, kids can be total a$$holes to other kids - he didn’t have a clue what was being said. Says kids were talking sh!t about him but he didn’t know what they were saying but he was big so nobody screwed with him. He learned English from cartoons. He grew up, attended college, speaks without an accent and is now long and prosperously retired and drives a Lexus.

What my brother-in-law went through was grossly unfair and even cruel for a 10 year old to go through and many/most kids in his situation end up permanent 2nd class citizens because of language. Yet, when we teach kids in English-as-a-2nd-language classes they usually struggle - English is a HARD language to learn - they don’t lose their accents and that ALSO dooms them to 2nd class citizenship in many instances. I would NOT want to go back to how it used to be but we REALLY need to make the “melting pot” work for as many people as fast as possible.

 

[darkhorse13]

I'm totally an idiot

As a 30+ year biker myself (MTN, Road, Tri) this just simply sucks. As others have mentioned, after an elapsed period of time off the bike after a ride and then driving your vehicle back home, you simply forget about the bikes. I have had enough close calls that to this day I still pause before entering a covered structure in anything I drive. Sometimes a roof rack is just easier or more convenient than a tailgate pad or hitch rack. I won't fault the person for this choice... and I bet they won't forget again (for the near future)

Bright side... NEW BIKE DAY! I'd gladly pay a deductible for a new bike given that everything my wife and I ride are $4K+ bikes.

 

[Johnnyblender]

I prefer to keep them on the back.

 

[ShrimpHappens]

Just chiming in to confirm that while this isn't me in the video, I am indeed an idiot.

 

[Bucephalus]

Luckily I'm short and my 50cm roadie fits in the back seat.

 

[Hepps]

id die. my santa cruz was 4k bucks in 2014. This made my stomach hurt.

I still use a Kuat rack for my Gladiator, JUST bc i am stupid enough to drive them into my garage.

edit: hitch mounted Kuat transfer 2

Love my 1up hitch rack. Three fatbikes and a roadie. Works fantastic. this is also why I don't like roof racks, too easy to forget.

 

[Mtpisgah]

It is great when people talk about hitch racks, but a lot of these instances of people driving into the garage were probably 10-20 years ago, I know mine was 18 years ago before hitch racks were big.

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