joyride

At first I thought 'Uh-oh. They're onto me' but I'm not a columnist so it doesn't apply to me. Whew. And you'd think that a proof-reading of the publication before it goes to presses would've picked it up. You know, editors and stuff. Right?

This kid takes the cake on childhood obesity and then eats it. Then he goes around and eats the other kids' cakes too. There's other factors to consider. The mother suffers from depression and I don't know if that has anything to do with it but it could be a form of binge eating. Instead of feeding her own face, she feeds her kid's and that makes her happy.
Now I'm going to tease the fat kid, because when I was younger (and I was the skinny kid) I got picked on a lot by the fat kid. He's a bit of a wuss too, getting picked on? He's a 5-foot tall 8 year old that weighs 200lbs. He could pretty plow through anything at that point. Although I guess to be a bully one has to be active and this kid is anything but. Unless you count the repetitive motion of raising food to his mouth. Oh, and this:
"People pick on us because of my weight. They call us fat. It makes us feel sick of the nutters always shouting at us," Connor told ITV.
OK kid, you know you're fat when you refer to yourself as "us."

Now I've got to say something about this because, well, I went to DePauw. Delta Zeta sorority on DePauw got a visit from their nationals, which is a big thing because if nationals have to step in you've got problems. Well, DZ has been falling short on their recruitment numbers. So what did nationals do? What any sorority national chapter do, kicked out the cows. Now, I love DZ, some good friends were DZ's. They were an interesting bunch. I don't think it's right that they selected people by their physical appearances and made them alumna just to get them out of the house. I understand that they weren't what nationals expected of members physically, but to cover that up by saying that they didn't meet recruitment standards? What the heck does that mean? So only the pretty recruit the pretty, right? It's all vanity, yes, I'm jealous but I can see its benefits. Of course there's its disadvantages too but a small plight to pay to be beautiful.
I support the outcasted DZ's. And I give them their props too, because I'm sure that the news stories about the whole incident haven't helped recruiting. Unless, there's no such thing as bad PR.

boss of me

Ah, kids. Is there anything better? Yeah sure you just want to smack attitude right off them sometimes but you refrain. They get out of control too, but is that your fault or the kid's? This should be on a show called 'Kids Do the Darnest Things.' This kid rocks. I want to party with him. Not only did he steal a car and drive himself to the airport but he also managed to get on a plane, not once but twice. He made it all the way to San Antonio. Apparently he had family somewhere near Dallas because he tried to get a connecting flight from San Antonio to Dallas and that's where police caught up with him. Awesome. That kid was motivated. Me? When I've ran away in the past, the farthest I've gotten to is my cousins in Pearl City. But this kid made it from Seattle to San Antonio, overcoming obstacles without money. Need to get to the airport? No problem, steal a car. Need to get to Texas? No problem, get a connecting flight through Phoenix.

"YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!" I think I remember using this one, once. We're sitting down to dinner, the food was yet to be served and my mom told me to go wash my hands. To which I replied, "You're not the boss of me." My parents said OK, and went to get their food. Yup, no food for me. So we cut a deal, they provide for me, and I do what they tell me to do. Worked out pretty good. Never went hungry.

The headline read, 'Too scared to flee.' A better headline would've been 'Too stupid to flee.' Or perhaps he didn't want to leave. Was he going to school? Because I assume that there's some paperwork that has to be submitted, transfers from previous school or something. So let's assume he didn't. Well, basically, it was 4 years of summer vacation. Give me a TV and a Playstation 2, lots of games, and I'd stay there too. Hmm, if I go home I'll probably have to go back to school and school sucks, so nah, I'll just stay here. The funny thing is he's going to be the oldest 6th grader in school.