That's not as good as my story.

I got on the Purple Line at Dempster yesterday and four young black dudes from Loyola Academy were in my car. One was an outgoing knucklehead doing most of the talking. One was very serious and reading Just Mercy. The big mouth complained because he didn't buy his copy of the book on time and missed the first two assignments and was getting a C in the class. Mr. Serious asked his friends for a pen and Mr. Bigmouth started yelling, "You gonna annotate that shit? My copy came pre-annotated!" Serious asked how that was gonna help him learn the material. I had to jump in and I asked Bigmouth why he didn't just buy the Cliff's Notes. The other three laughed their asses off.

Then they started talking about Spring Formal. Bigmouth claimed he was gonna go in shorts. Serious said to Bigmouth, "You cost us free pizza for the rest of our lives! You could have gone with that girl whose dad owns that pizza chain!" Bigmouth said, "I'm not into her." Serious said, "You didn't have to marry her. Sometimes you have to take one for the team."

Leash started a thread about MEAN GIRLS.

You throw in a story about "four dudes"

Are you drinking at your desk right now???

That's not as good as my story.

I got on the Purple Line at Dempster yesterday and four young black dudes from Loyola Academy were in my car. One was an outgoing knucklehead doing most of the talking. One was very serious and reading Just Mercy. The big mouth complained because he didn't buy his copy of the book on time and missed the first two assignments and was getting a C in the class. Mr. Serious asked his friends for a pen and Mr. Bigmouth started yelling, "You gonna annotate that shit? My copy came pre-annotated!" Serious asked how that was gonna help him learn the material. I had to jump in and I asked Bigmouth why he didn't just buy the Cliff's Notes. The other three laughed their asses off.

Then they started talking about Spring Formal. Bigmouth claimed he was gonna go in shorts. Serious said to Bigmouth, "You cost us free pizza for the rest of our lives! You could have gone with that girl whose dad owns that pizza chain!" Bigmouth said, "I'm not into her." Serious said, "You didn't have to marry her. Sometimes you have to take one for the team."

I thought this thread was gonna be about leash and FF.

I thought this thread was gonna be about leash and FF.

I think the cruelest years for girls are the middle school ages of 11-13.

Saw them pulling some shameful stuff when my daughter was growing up back in the day.

It was before Facebook so MySpace was the vehicle of major nastiness.

Good luck, leash.

We had really hoped sending our daughter to a small, parochial school would limit the meanness

Hey there's always a chance that JLN and LTG pop up and continue their eternal enmity for the ages...

I was in a Starbucks this afternoon, and a couple high school-aged girls were at the nearest table. I overheard their conversation, and they were brutal. It was straight out of Mean Girls, just ripping the hell out of their friends and classmates.

Oh God no

Glad to hear she is doing well now, though. Good on her.

Lewis Black's version is much funnier than this one.

Which one?

It'll start way before 12.

Our 2 softball teams are made up from a few towns. Most are from one school. A girl from another school showed up. She said, Hi, I'm Jade. Then started the drill


5 mins later two of the bitchy ones said she "seems fake and they hope she's not on the team". My daughter, the saint, scolded them and said you can't tell someone's fake from then saying hello. Don't be bitches already.

I was proud.

Yeah, we're going to preach to our child to be open-minded and non-judgmental, but it will probably fall on deaf ears when she sees us making fun of people all the time.

Just teach her to throw punks through a window.