>A Post Guaranteed to Make Me EVEN MORE POPULAR at My Daughter’s School

>So. I was sitting in car rider pick-up hell* last week when I noticed two middle aged women in karate uniforms going car to car, handing out fliers.

My mouth dropped open as I watched them move down the line. What the heck? I thought to myself. Does my daughter’s school seriously allow people to hand out business fliers in the pick-up line?

Yes. It does. I took the flier, looked it over, muttered a few nasty words about Master Chin’s Tae Kwan Do studio, and resisted the urge to practice my own art of kicking and punching right there in the elementary school parking lot.

“I mean, that is seriously the tackiest thing I can think of,” I said to Hubs that evening. “There we are, stuck waiting for our kids and we’re forced to take these fliers!”

“I would never send the kids to Master Chin, anyway,” Hubs said knowledgeably.

“Master Chin needs some lessons in business etiquette,” I said.

I sighed deeply and thought no more about it… at least until I opened Punky’s school folder on Friday afternoon. There, mixed in among the Box Tops for Education fliers and homework sheets, was another flier from Master Chin.

IN PUNKY’S SCHOOL WORK.

Does anyone else find this totally inappropriate?

Top it off with the fact that yesterday, two school days later, I received a form offering me a discounted subscription to Highlights, which I was required to sign, whether I said yes or no.

I’m trying really hard not to say ‘What the f#ck?!’ anymore on this blog, because a) I don’t think Jesus would like it, and b) I’m afraid it will hurt my chances of becoming PTO president and pwning that school.

So instead, I’ll just say WHAT THE FOCK. And you will know what I mean.

I realize I’m an elementary school newb, so I’ll put the question to you veterans- Is this kind of thing normal? I’ve been expecting the hard sell to to force my daughter to go door-to-door, begging people to buy wrapping paper or cookie dough or whatever-it-is for her school.

But am I going to have to endure pitches for tae kwan do and magazines, too? Are these in-person commercials just part of the elementary school experience? Because I’m starting to feel like I did that time I went to what I thought was my playgroup and found a Pampered Chef party instead.

*Incidentally, an automated phone call triumphantly informed us over the weekend that our car rider pick-up wait time has been reduced to JUST 40 MINUTES!!! OH JOY!!!