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Back to school shopping – hassles & headaches
08/02/10 · Filed in Daily Grind
I’ve been in a rush the past few days to get everything ready for Bubby to go back to school on Thursday. THURSDAY. I have no idea why they’re starting school on a Thursday!
It took me three different trips to Wal-Mart to find all of the supplies that the 1st grade teachers are demanding this year. For one thing, they want each child to have 3 specific colored folders – 2 plain orange and 1 plain red. Now, you wouldn’t think that finding 2 orange folders and 1 red folder would be all that difficult, but let me tell you, IT IS. And I really want, like from way down deep within my soul, to burn every Wal-Mart in my vicinity to the ground for being such an epic clusterfuck inside. School supplies were all piled up in the first few aisles, strewn all over the floor from the ravenous shebeasts trying to ensure that their child got all the cool shit first. And amongst this mess, the only folders I could find in the correct colors were shitty – like made out of paper and floppy. Folders for MY son’s class have to be “DURABLE” and “LAMINATED PLASTIC” and “NOT PAPER” to quote the list exactly.
Why the hell do they even make folders like that anyway? Yeah, that’s what I want holding my papers together, MORE PAPER only thicker.
Anyway, I finally got sick of rummaging through the back-to-school aisles and tripping over everything, so I sought out the office supplies, hoping I’d have more luck there. And what do you know? I dug and dug through every colored folder imaginable (except those that I needed, of course) until I FINALLY found the 2 orange and 1 red. I just so happened to guard them with my life just in case.
I’ve never had that much hassle trying to school shop before. And I swear to God if anything happens to these folders, I’m going to punch Mrs. FirstGradeTeacherLady in her face. And ask her what she has against all of the other colors in the rainbow. I worked hard for those things.
Despite all of THAT nonsense, he’s ready to get back to school. Even more now that I gave him a totally BA mowhawk. Saving money on haircuts is so punk rock.
