RE: 17-Year-Old Jail Editorial

An Overheardian writes:

Thanks for posting this on the blog. This is such a difficult issue and I am curious how it will all play out. I know it must have been embarrassing for this young lady to go to school today - but her mother insisted she go to school and “face the music”. If more parents were like her, our abuse rate among school children should plummet. It is important to note, that in the Dallas Morning News Metro section today, this young lady was featured as one of the 2007-08 Student Voices. This is an accomplished young lady who can take this tragedy and hopefully write about her experience and prevent others from her mistake. The issues she mentions in the introduction (substance abuse, bullying in schools) are real, and HP kids are facing them today. I lift her and her family up in prayer as they fight the intense social pressure to run or hide from this. I am proud of this family.

Would You Send Your 17-Year-Old To Jail?

From this week’s PCP:

EDITORIAL: A Wrenching Decision
Being a parent sometimes demands the toughest choices

Richard and Angela Watkins love their daughter. So they sent her to jail last weekend.

Rather than take custody of the intoxicated 17-year-old after the Highland Park Department of Public Safety busted her for underage drinking, they opted to have officers handcuff her, cart her off, and lock her up for the night.

Sending a child away, forcing her to stand alone as she’s incarcerated — even for just one night, even in the relative safety of the Highland Park jail — must be a wrenching act for any parent. But the Watkins felt they had to “do the right thing,” as the mother told one of our editors.

We applaud their decision.
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Highlander Band to Stage Bloody Battle

Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday that the Picts were fighting the Northumbrians at the Battle of Dunnichen, or, as I like to call it, the Battle of Nechtansmere? Well, it wasn’t. It was in the year 685.

And the Highlander Band will reenact (presumably with music) the glorious victory of (SPOILER ALERT) the Picts at the Tom Landry Classic tomorrow. For full details, (more…)

Re: Under the Waterfall

1. Great pool. Er, grotto. Hopefully it’s well chlorinated.

2. Results of the office poll are in; a man with a B cup does not qualify as “fit.”

3. Merritt is the next Chris Hansen. We’ll call it Dateline: To Catch a Philanderer.

Re: Under the Waterfall

An Overheardian asks,

Do you ever get the urge to print these photos out, and then take them with you when you go shopping, or to parties? Because I do. Like a whole “craig’s list/myspace/weirdos on the internets” book that I can whip out of my cute little handbag whilst standing in line at the HP Village Starbucks….or while running in to Snider Plaza. Granny’s Brag Book, if you will, but not.

No, but I do want to respond and lure him for a bust. Then I’d show his photos.

Is That Him Under the Waterfall?

If you’re looking for a wet dude this Park Cities area guy has posted photos of his pool, his legs, and a blurry image of a man beneath a waterfall.

Re: Krista’s Atmospheric Poisons

Merritt, someone beat you to the punch:

Sorry, but our Preston Hollow reporter has been exhaling more often to compensate for my decreased usage of carbon. I think he’s taken everything I’ve saved.

Maybe next time.

Re: Krista’s Atmospheric Poisons

I’m going to see how quickly I can use the carbon that Krista is saving.

Krista’s Atmospheric Poisons

After three days of attempting to live “carbon neutral,” Krista has decided to pay for an indulgence instead.

OK, so I did find a way to offset carbons through Green Mountain Energy. After calculating approximately how much electricity I used in the past three days and how many miles I drove, I have that I used .08 metric tons of carbon.

According to this, I need to buy 1 credit to offset my usage.
My price: $14.

Re: Huddleston’s Hardball

A Collin County-dwelling Overheardian shares his two cents:

I bet when Albert was a little kid, if kids wouldn’t play what he wanted, he took his lincoln logs, hopped up in the back seat of his limo, and had his nanny-chauffeur take him home.

Re: Huddleston’s Hardball

An Overheardian with insight into the issues surrounding the lot chimes in:

The irony is, the people he’s really going to piss off are the people who shop in Snider Plaza… the same shoppers he’s marketing to with his development.

Mr. Huddleston, Now It’s Personal

Albert Huddleston’s decision is affecting Merritt’s favorite morning spot. She writes in:

FYI, the wait staff at Kuby’s is in a tissy. The parking lot at the center of debate has been their lot for years. They pay 5$ per day out their own pockets and won’t have a place to go.

E-Pal Needed

This married man is looking for a local pen pal. Creepy.

Re: Young, Slender, Hot, Clean

Wow, what a guy. He’s willing “to help with bills or whatever.”

Re: Cafe Pacific

This requires more research. Was it Scott?

Young, Slender, Hot and Clean

An Overheardian in need of more Park Cities classified dirt sends this beauty, a craigslist.com user looking for some action. But you have to be young, slender, hot and clean. �

Re: Huddleston Playing Hardball?

One Overheardian thinks Albert Huddleston will strike out with this new tactic:

Who cares, I’ve never seen more than five cars in that parking lot anyway and they were mostly people with luxury cars trying not to get dinged while they eat breakfast.  Who does he think he is punishing anyway, the Snider Plaza store owners who opposed him (and are still smiling about the fact that he caved) or the UP residents who could care less about his little parking regime?  Go away little man.

Confluence of the Blog Posts

Merritt’s favorite Overheardian (besides her dad) succinctly sums up today’s activity on the blog:

I think “Guy Smart” would include noticing that your wife has a new purse and then turning very nasty when you discover that she spent $216,000 on it!!!!!!!  (The exclamation marks are for Merritt).

Gossip from Cafe Pacific

I know, Merritt, you don’t care where I had lunch. But it’s worth mentioning that one of the first things our server at Cafe Pacific said to me was that one of the men I work with had been in the restaurant with a pretty blonde who may have been his girlfriend, but probably was not his wife. My dining companions (not People employees, mind you) were shocked.

Cafe Pacific can’t hold all those secrets, I guess.

Grape News

From a press release:

Popular local chef Brian Luscher who gained acclaim at Greenville Avenue landmark The Grape has left his current position at TPC Craig Ranch where he was named 2007 Avid Golfer Best Private Club Chef in the Metroplex.  Rumor has it a Grape reunion might be in the works.  Stay tuned….

Re: Guy Smart

That argument is definitely not “Guy Smart.”

Eco-Krista Part 3

Overheardians, unite! Krista needs your help, or she’ll be appallingly “carbon positive,” responsible for emitting dangerous toxins into the air, just like the rest of us:

I successfully completed my round trip experience with DART. It still took an hour, but was less chaotic.

Today’s plan was to plant a tree because it’s impossible to be 100 percent completely carbon neutral (and because I’ve been spewing carbon like crazy today). However, I was told that’s an AWFUL idea at this time of year. So on to the next plan: buy carbon offsets. But which company should I go through? Any ideas?

Re: Guy Smart

It’s true. And I happen to support her use of multiple question marks based on this compelling argument:

…the five question marks are a true sign of my flabbergastedness. I know that’s not a word, but sometimes you have to make one up to adequately describe a situation, because there’s just not an existing one in the English language.

Huddleston Playing Hard Ball?

The lot behind Chase Bank will be closed to public parking. This announcement comes a week after Legacy Hillcrest withdrew its rezoning request for the site at Hillcrest and Daniel. The Snider Plaza merchants had opposed the deal, in large part because they were concerned about whatever is built there not having the same amount of parking provided there now. Well, looks like property owner Albert Huddleston decided Snider Plaza could do without his parking altogether, if they don’t like his new deal.

Look for the complete story in Friday’s paper.

See This Handbag? It’s $216,000.

Ladies, gather ’round the computer screen and let’s have a little talk. See, the thing is, sure, we all want to be pretty– I get that. But, ladies, we need to look at the bigger picture. Like, oh, I dunno, the fact that one-third of all Dallas children live in poverty, something like that. Anyhoo, I say this because Forbes has an enlightening article on the world’s most expensive handbags and we all know that we know a lady or two living in the Park Cities who has spent a pretty penny (maybe even 17,000 and above pennies) on a purse. (One woman I know has at least 10 ostrich Birkins.)

Ladies: The purse cannot go with you to heaven. And it can’t slow down time to ward off heaven. Oh, and the starving kids? Not sure if they even believe in heaven right about now.  Just a thought.

P.S. It also can’t make your husband love you.