Comments on: Moving on swiftly – Fort Knox

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:55:14 +0000

Unreal!…

By: Leanne

Leanne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:38:33 +0000

I fourth the sandbox…I mean Angela’s comment. She didn’t know the address to where her kid was sleeping? A few coockoo’s short of a clock.

By: chelle

chelle — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:20:48 +0000

I third Angela’s comment! I cannot imagine not knowing where my kids where!

By: Almost American

Almost American — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:40:45 +0000

I second Angela’s comment – this woman is insane – and I don’t think Daughter #1′s suggestion of talking to her is likely to do any good. Well, actually it might convince her that you’re the one who’s insane I suppose and she might leave you alone . . .

I feel sorry for the kid! Maybe she knows when she’s well off – one would hope she knows her own phone number, but she didn’t call from the sleepover house asking to be picked up! Maybe she’s found a like-minded set of parents in the Higginbottoms who didn’t think to tell her to call her mother . . .

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:55:43 +0000

I don’t think I could let my child blindly go to someone’s house…what happens if there’s an emergency? Oh Maddie…this woman is insane.

By: Bad mommy

Bad mommy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:24:01 +0000

When I was a child, my mother insisted on knowing the parents and children, seeing the house, talking to the mother personally about any plans, and then having all the contact information on hand. If we were leaving the friend’s house for any reason, we had to telephone my mother and inform her where we were going and when we planned to come back.

Granted, my parents were careful, paranoid people. But this woman is TRULY amazing. Terrifying.

I will never forget telling a friend of mine when I was 10 “Oh, you are so lucky – your parents let you go anywhere and do anything.” She looked at me sadly and replied. “No, you are lucky – my parents don’t care where I am.” I never chafed at my parents’ curfew and phone-check rules again.

By: Niksmom

Niksmom — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:55:51 +0000

Well, for a minute there I was astounded that she wasn’t calling to ask you to go pick up her child for her! Maybe there’s hope for her yet?

By: farmwifetwo

farmwifetwo — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:59:38 +0000

She didn’t know how to reach her if there was an emergency???

When I was a teenager (16) I didn’t have a curfew (yes, I was that boring ), BUT, the rule was “don’t tell anyone”. How can you lie and tell someone your parents want you home at a certain time, if they know you don’t have a curfew.

The only rule was – you had to leave the name and phone # of the #1 person you were going out with incase of an emergency. She never called so there was no point in lying. But atleast they could start looking for you.

By: kristen

kristen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:09:18 +0000

This woman slays me. Seriously. Poor Higginbottoms, indeed.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:06:20 +0000

Natalie.

I love it! (Though you must be getting slightly frustrated…)

Heidi