F-Bomb Dropping Scot Sends Me a Love Letter
Do you guys think this reader liked my column? Be honest.
Friday, September 12, 2008 6:14 PMSubject: F*** YouAlright a. If you buy the most expensive sunglasses you can buy take very good care of them, you dont leave them in a zip lock bag. B. The scots game is a tradition for many high school students and fellow younger students so if we like to socialize and have a good time I sincerely apologize if It gets in the way . C. Highland park is known
for its students that excel and progress gracefully through life. Point is if you lighten up and realize that at the scots game you are among the people that will one day lead this country have some respect.
Dear F-Bomb Dropper,
A) I know your parents, bet you didn’t know that.
B) Read carefully, the glasses were in the case inside my chic, non-zipping bag. Not a ziplock.
C) Are you trying to say you’re graceful? I beg to differ, I’m just sayin’.
D) If you’re planning on running our country one day, you’ve got to make it through an election first and if that happens, I’m so pulling out this e-mail and sending it straight to the major news networks, Oprah and maybe Jerry Springer.
E) Did you say have some respect? I lost that with the subject line.
F) Who needs to lighten up?
G) I’m rubber, you’re glue, bounced off me and stuck on you.
Love,
Merritt
Your column and this post reminded me of a few things.
a. Why I hated high school.
b. Why I still hate high school.
c. This person thinks WAY too highly of his or herself.
c. Good sunglasses are harder to buy than a good pair of jeans.
e. You’re genius.
Love,
Jeff
P.S. Do you want me to beat him up for you?
To the author of the letter: You’re acting a little too entitled for someone who is supposed to “progress gracefully through life”.
You = fail whale.
P.S. Also, letter author, you have great reading skills. <– that is called “sarcasm”.
To my fellow parents and HP leaders:
The letter from this young man/woman is frightening. This child is disrespectful and way out of line. We all enjoy the 1st amendment right to free speech so she/he is certainly entitled to write a letter to the editor or even to the columnist. But the vitriol, hatred and utter lack of decorum with which this letter is written is completely unacceptable. I certainly don’t see this person as any kind of a leader or role model. Let’s teach our kids that this type of behavior is classless, wrong and, frankly, completely ineffective.
I am aghast at the cojones this kid must be sporting to say to a grownup, “realize that at the scots game you are among the people that will one day lead this country have some respect.” Listen up, smartypants: realize that as a high school student, you are still on the parental payroll, not old enough to vote and probably make idiotic choices on a daily basis, one of which was this incredibly snotty message you wrote. If I was your parent (and you should be grateful I’m not), you’d lose the car keys, the cell phone and your spending money so fast your head would spend. Now, go act like a grownup, do something good for the community and make us all proud to say what a long way you’ve come at graduation next June.
Pardon me, that should read your head would “spin”. I was so ticked off while writing this that I lost control of my fingers.
Some HP students need to be reminded that their relative affluence doesn’t equate to being above the law.
Merritt, I hope you forwarded that email to the kid’s parents. Their response will either be an appropriate one (i.e. expressions of mortification, apologies and a separate written unqualified apology from the kid), or an inappropriate one (reply email along the lines of “how dare you presume to tell us how to parent our child, we are gonna get you fired from PCP, blah blah).
If the parents choose option two, or if their brat writes you some sort of “I apologize if you were offended” type of apology, then name and shame.
P.S. I’ll beat him up for you too if you want.
Merritt, forget beating him up. Let’s mess with his head. It’s more fun, and you get to giggle for a long time.
This reminds me of Paul Kelly Tripplehorn, Jr, and why he was, is, and remains, better than any of us. Good luck with your life, kid. He couldn’t quite get away from his high school, and neither will you.
is this what they teach at HP or does this bs come from the parents?
“realize that at the scots game you are among the people that will one day lead this country”
Wow. I feel sorry for any teenager that thinks he has the right to demand respect from AN ADULT. Show some respect? Are you F***ing kidding me? Somebody needs to take off their belt and whip your little A**. Hey kid, you show some respect, you are walking among a select group of people, most of whom have actually made it this far in life on their own. You haven’t. Somebody else is paying for your lifestyle and providing you with the education that will eventually take you wherever you end up in life. You are still living at home, living a life paid for by someone else; don’t forget it. You should print out your email and save it, because when you do grow up, and you’ve a long way to go, you should send Merritt a HUGE apology. Unless, of course, you are the loser that stole her glasses…
who is P.Kelly Tripplehorn?
Grumpy,
Here it is:
http://www.snopes.com/embarras.....lehorn.asp
Gross…All coming into focus. I believe this is Paul Tripplehorn’s progeny. Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree here. Papa is the type whom I think would buy a title from an impoverished Lord or Duke if he thought he could get away with it.
The kids really do believe they’re better than you.
Better because they get away with things like the bad behavior at the game or drinking at weekend parties.
Better because they get fancy new cars and European vacations.
Better because they spend their summers somewhere else and go to the lake every weekend.
Better because they have full-time maids who do all the housework and guys who mow the grass so they never get their hands dirty.
Better because they’re parents tell them so.
Not that there’s anything wrong with all of that. It’s a nice life.
I can’t believe that no one has addressed this kids abominable grammar and horrific formatting. Was this a text message? What’s with all the random ? marks and bad punctuation. I’m not paying $15K a year in taxes for my kid to go to HPISD and not correctly and fluently write elegant prose - even if it is rude. Not that this was my kid. I’m just sayin’ Jeez.
I guess this kid is going to learn the hard way once he graduates. From my experience of living in the Park Cities for 20 years now, many of the HPISD alumni I have encountered have had a hard time getting or keeping a job. Most are not what I would call successful. We lived in our last home for 9 years and I think our neighbor was employed for maybe 2 years of that time. But he liked to let us know on a weekly basis that he had graduated from HP. F-Bomb Dropper is going to find out soon that he will get by on his HP laurels for about the first week of college and then no one will care.
I didn’t know Obama went to Highland Park. I thought he was from Greenville.