OT....but I am shocked that people are like this

GTOgirl1969
GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
edited September 18 in Health and Weight Loss
I was at the grocery store today, and I was getting my kids out of the car..and some woman said, "Isn't it time you acted like a parent and got rid of the "hot rod"?
I was flabbergasted...since when does the type of car you drive (1969 Pontiac GTO, and I:heart: my car)
make you a better parent?
I wanted to tell her off, but all I could do is bite my tongue and shake my head in disbelief. Some people are just judgmental and rude!
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  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    I was at the grocery store today, and I was getting my kids out of the car..and some woman said, "Isn't it time you acted like a parent and got rid of the "hot rod"?
    I was flabbergasted...since when does the type of car you drive (1969 Pontiac GTO, and I:heart: my car)
    make you a better parent?
    I wanted to tell her off, but all I could do is bite my tongue and shake my head in disbelief. Some people are just judgmental and rude!
  • MontanaGirl
    MontanaGirl Posts: 1,251 Member
    I was at the grocery store today, and I was getting my kids out of the car..and some woman said, "Isn't it time you acted like a parent and got rid of the "hot rod"?
    I was flabbergasted...since when does the type of car you drive (1969 Pontiac GTO, and I:heart: my car)
    make you a better parent?
    I wanted to tell her off, but all I could do is bite my tongue and shake my head in disbelief. Some people are just judgmental and rude!

    :noway: I can think of a lot of indicators that someone sucks as a parent - but their car???? Unless they can't buckle the car seat in, whats the prob?
  • peej76
    peej76 Posts: 1,250 Member
    Just like you can't be a good parent if you've got tattoos, go out for a few drinks once in awhile, dress a certain way, listen to a certain type of music! I hate how people judge and think there's only one type of good parents.
  • peej76
    peej76 Posts: 1,250 Member
    By the way I would love to take my kids for a drive in that car!!
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
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    :noway: I can think of a lot of indicators that someone sucks as a parent - but their car???? Unless they can't buckle the car seat in, whats the prob?
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    I hate it when people think that their way is the only way. :mad:
  • TamTastic
    TamTastic Posts: 19,224 Member
    Wow, people really will make a big deal about EVERYTHING won't they?? They must be pretty bored with their own life if they feel the need to butt into yours about something as ridiculous as that!
  • MontanaGirl
    MontanaGirl Posts: 1,251 Member

    :noway: I can think of a lot of indicators that someone sucks as a parent - but their car???? Unless they can't buckle the car seat in, whats the prob?
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    I hate it when people think that their way is the only way. :mad:
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    Seriously. Reminds me of that new country song that has the line - "Like she doesn't have enough of her own business, now she's gotta go mindin' mine." I mean really, if you were dragging your child by the arm, yelling at her, and smacking her around - then someone please intervene. But cars, tatoos, looking different?? Get over yourself already . . .
  • Cruizer
    Cruizer Posts: 5
    They were just jealous you have such a sweeeeeet ride!
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I tell ya, some people just never cease to amaze me. I wonder when owning a "hotrod" made you a bad parent. Sounds like that woman needs to get a life.
  • pam0206
    pam0206 Posts: 700 Member
    OMG. I can't believe that someone would even waste her time. Gimme a break.
  • Erica92627
    Erica92627 Posts: 576
    Hey your shoes are untied, what kind of an example are you setting for your kids!:mad:
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    Hey your shoes are untied, what kind of an example are you setting for your kids!:mad:

    lmao:laugh:
  • gmukris
    gmukris Posts: 539
    WTF?! That person seriously needs to get a life! :mad:
  • diannholland1965
    diannholland1965 Posts: 782 Member
    GTO, more steel for the ounce.
    I would venture a guess that her car, most likely made of fiberglass, would fold like a paper cup in an accident.
    and THAT makes you a safer parent then her, not to mention that if you needed to rush your childen to the hospital you could do so in 1/2 the time that her car would. and MAYBE faster then an ambulance.
    By having your dream car, I think that you are showing your kids that life is meant to be lived and enjoyed.
    Not to mention the fact that your kids are less apt to be embarressed to have Mom drive them to school. :wink:
    AND you are kept young by the fact that you did not give in to the Mommy wagon.
    People like that are put here on earth to remind us that we DO indeed have it good.
    Just smile and say
    THANK YOU!! I KNOW I look good and have a GREAT car!!! :wink: :laugh:
    As a women who also drives a small sports car, it rocks to not use the gas that she uses in the Mommy wagon to boot.
    --Diann...
  • MontanaGirl
    MontanaGirl Posts: 1,251 Member

    Just smile and say
    THANK YOU!! I KNOW I look good and have a GREAT car!!! :wink: :laugh:

    --Diann...

    I love that!!! :glasses:
  • msarro
    msarro Posts: 2,748 Member
    If anything you're doing your children a favor by giving them impeccable taste in classic (and beautiful!) classic cars. Plus you're keeping them safer in a car made of solid steel that will more likely than not survive a collision with just about any other vehicle on the road.

    PLUS your kids will more than likely want to borrow your car to prom, since its a SWEET ride!

    Illegitimi non carborundum - Don't let the *kitten* grind you down :)
  • GTOgirl1969
    GTOgirl1969 Posts: 2,527 Member
    Thanks...you guys rock!
  • filergirl
    filergirl Posts: 240
    I have generally noted that some parents think that being parents gives them the right to lecture the world.

    I don't like it.
  • mechanicmom
    mechanicmom Posts: 5,700 Member
    I have a camaro that's been my baby for over ten years. I don't plan on getting rid of it. My kids will think I am cool (when they are old enough to think that) just like I bet yours do or will.
  • may_marie
    may_marie Posts: 667 Member
    Didnt you know ? the only way to be a good parent is to have a mini van ... and perfect house with a perfect white fence, in a street where all the houses look the same, with kids playing in a back with a swing and a dog, and take their shoes off before coming inside to have a perfect dinner with mom and dad (mostly kentucky fried chicken)

    didnt you know you had to be like everybody else to be a good parent,, you have to be like in those commercial on television,. a family without a mini van cannot be a happy family.

    aargghhhh people are so narrowly minded.

    as a kid my friend's parents had a T top camaro.... i though i was something else to be able to ride in that !!!!! loved it

    stay yourself !!!1
  • GravyGurl
    GravyGurl Posts: 1,070
    Most likely that person probably never had kids... those are the kind of people that usually think they know how others are being bad parents. :wink:
  • kristie874
    kristie874 Posts: 774 Member
    You should have told them that the hearse was broken down so you had to tote the poor kids around in a hotrod.
  • WillPillageYourVillageForFood
    WillPillageYourVillageForFood Posts: 777 Member
    If I had seen you at the grocery store my comment would have been "Hand over the keys to the goat and no one will get hurt"! I have never lost my love for the muscle cars and hopefully I will never get senile enough to think anyone is too old for them.
  • honeybee71
    honeybee71 Posts: 47
    Huh! I admire you for biting your tounge.I remember trying to defend myself when I got a tattoo. I really think that car makes you the "cool" parent. I know it beats my '91 corolla with the dented doors and broken grill.
  • Eve23
    Eve23 Posts: 2,352 Member
    You should have told them that the hearse was broken down so you had to tote the poor kids around in a hotrod.

    To funny Kristie:laugh:

    GTO you did the best thing I think you could have done. What a great way to model good behavior when someone is rude and disrespectful. You go girl in that beautiful GTO......:glasses: :bigsmile:
  • nicole0177
    nicole0177 Posts: 377
    First of all that woman should mind her own business. and just because you dont drive a mini van it doesnt mean your a bad parent. id like to see what kind a parent she is probably one of those naggy ones where when her children are teenagers run away and become a wild child.
  • auntkaren
    auntkaren Posts: 1,490 Member
    :noway: She's crazy and forgot to take her medication. The:devil: is always out there , but you handled it very well , my kids rode with me in my Hot Charger that I loved which got me a few speeding tickets in those days not when the girls were with me though , would sometimes get a taker at the stop light .:happy: Your just a Red Hot Rod Momma:laugh: Now I drive like a grandma:tongue:
  • icandoit
    icandoit Posts: 4,163 Member
    Classic cars are the best. Never get rid of it. I miss mine
    64 Chevy wagon
    64 corvair convertible
    62 nova ss
    the Malibu, the camera, the z28
    the.........
    Now we have my sons 50 chevy truck under construction.
    Classic is the best.

    People need to learn to shut there mouths.:explode:
  • ali106
    ali106 Posts: 3,754 Member
    well those ignorants do pop up everywhere don't they! sigh....

    you're car is the bomb...and omg how cool for your kids!!! my guy would LOVE a ride in that bad boy...so would his momma! lol....

    but for that woman(troll) in the parking lots....she probably had plenty of kids (stray cats) herself and was really a great mom(as in mommy dearest) so ya know take it were its coming from (a moron who's own family probably shun her and won't listen to her nonsense and that is why she stops strangers in parking lots and spews her lack of class and knowledge) lol....ah yes I have fun w/ the subliminal! lol

    hugs and keep on driving the classics...
    Ali
  • proudmama0118
    proudmama0118 Posts: 433 Member
    That is just craziness. People say the most idiotic things!!!
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