Comments | nundu_art: Tales from Camp

nundu_art

Tales from Camp

Aug 18, 2010 19:30

My office is the one that fields questions from customers and parents concerning camp. We get some really weird calls. Now that I'm the 'sorting hat' for the camp, it's upped my ante of weird calls.

( Ranting against weird parents follows... )

camp, truck, parents

Comments 10

divinemum August 19 2010, 10:54:55 UTC

I want the VIP rooms too! LOL

Crazy parents.

nundu_art August 19 2010, 23:27:45 UTC

I know our counselors would love to find those VIP rooms! In the summer two counselors share a 10x10 room that contains a bunk bed and two wardrobes and what ever else they can squeeze in there. In the winter they get that ginormous room to themselves.

mollywheezy August 19 2010, 12:24:07 UTC

What in the world is up with those parents?! When I went to various camps as a child there was no way for parents to call in or kids to call out unless it was an emergency, and then you had to have a counselor with you. (Of course, 25 years ago no one had cell phones either.)

That is one great truck! :)

nundu_art August 19 2010, 23:31:45 UTC

Even when my girls went to camp the only time we would have expected a call was when they were sick or in trouble. (there weren't cell phones then either). We have in our literature that children are not to bring a cell phone or any other electronic gadgets (cameras are the exception), but we get a lot of protest about that. I can see them wanting the children to have one while the child is flying by themselves, but other than that...

I see high schoolers whose parents are treating them like 5th graders. I always think 'what are they going to do when Junior goes off to college next year?'

mullvaney August 20 2010, 13:53:12 UTC

I deal with these children once they reach grad school, and it still a'int pretty- "I didn't know there was required reading to do ahead of time", "You send out too much information- can you make it into a bulleted list?" "Oh, there's a deadline for that? I didn't know". They don't read the aforementioned information, and then blame us when their unprepared . . .

coquillagement August 19 2010, 12:51:29 UTC

I do not envy you having to be on the phone with these parents. We all know them, but we don't all have to work with them.

nundu_art August 19 2010, 23:34:57 UTC

Believe it or not, these calls give us a lot of good laughter in the office. I told my boss a couple of weeks ago that if I didn't field calls like this I wouldn't laugh nearly enough!

megan29 August 19 2010, 15:42:37 UTC

Those calls... It's enough to make you grab a beer and deploy the chute. :-)

There is a depressing number of idiots in the world. Parenthood doesn't change that. If anything, it tends to transform even previously smart, sane people into raving maniacs. I'm sorry your job includes talking to them. I gather you can't tell them to go f... ahem... have fun with themselves, and give their kids a break?

nundu_art August 19 2010, 23:36:43 UTC

I'm just amazed at how normal some of these kids turn out, with parents like this. Just some of them, mind you. A lot of the kids are just as neurotic as their parents, unfortunately.

sea_thoughts August 22 2010, 17:35:24 UTC

Wow... some parents are idiots. Love makes fools of us all, I guess.