Crystal's Nightmare
Sep. 2nd, 2011 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyThis morning, the second day of Molly's Kindergarten Experience, our alarm clock didn't go off. Lucky for us I'm now conditioned to wake-up at approximately the same time each day, so our routine (which we practiced for two weeks before school) went unchanged. I posted this to FaceBook and Crystal replied with something along the lines of "Now I'm going to have nightmares about your alarm not going off".
ME TOO! I actually started freaking out about it because it's EXTREMELY EASY to accidentally turn off our 1989 Clock Radio Alarm Clock. I started to panic a bit, so I decided to calm myself by asking myself "Really... what's the worst that could happen?"
The WORST that could happen? Hmmmmmmmm...
The alarm clock doesn't go off and we miss the first half-hour of Kindergarten that day. The teacher is teaching something trivial, like "Red Means Stop, Green Means Go". Nothing too big, but Molly is now forever behind her classmates by just that tiniest of margins. People try to console her by telling her it's not really that important, in response she begins to question all learning. "If THAT lesson wasn't important, what other parts of school are equally unimportant?" She stops paying attention in class. Disciplinary action is taken. Mistaking a lack of interest for an actual learning disability, the overtaxed school system keeps moving her down the ranks of learning from regular school to remedial school to "Special Needs" school, all the way down to "Locked Room In The Basement With The Biters And Other Sociopaths". There she develops a crush on an 11-year-old third grader named "Snake". They start doing drugs together. Over the years their relationship grows by dysfunctional leaps and abusive bounds. They drop out of school when Molly is 13 to go live together in a van down by the river. Snake doesn't need a job, says Molly... their LOVE is all they need to survive! Soon they realize that they also need some money. Snake insists that Molly shouldn't have to work because that's a MAN'S job, but Snake goes through a dozen minimum-wage jobs before finally giving up. He starts taking Arc Welding Classes at the local community college, Molly is forced to take two jobs to put Snake through college. Waitress by day, stripper by night. The agreement is that after Snake gets an awesome Arc Welding job, he'll then pay back Molly by supporting her while SHE goes to college. Unfortunately, Molly finds out the hard way that Snake dropped out of the community college after the first week (because the instructer was "A Total Dick") and has been spending his tuition money on his NEW girlfriend, one of the girls that Molly strips with on Thursday nights. Distraught at the revelation of this betrayal, Molly rushes out of the strip club in to the cold, harsh streets of the city. She makes a vow to herself that she'll never let something like this happen again, that she's going to make a change in her life starting right now, just as soon as she crosses the street. Unfortunately, because she missed that lesson in school about red meaning stop and green meaning go? She dashes in to the street where gets hit by a city bus, falls on a dirty soup spoon, catches AIDS and DIES :(
So yeah... gonna go get a new alarm clock tonight...
ME TOO! I actually started freaking out about it because it's EXTREMELY EASY to accidentally turn off our 1989 Clock Radio Alarm Clock. I started to panic a bit, so I decided to calm myself by asking myself "Really... what's the worst that could happen?"
The WORST that could happen? Hmmmmmmmm...
The alarm clock doesn't go off and we miss the first half-hour of Kindergarten that day. The teacher is teaching something trivial, like "Red Means Stop, Green Means Go". Nothing too big, but Molly is now forever behind her classmates by just that tiniest of margins. People try to console her by telling her it's not really that important, in response she begins to question all learning. "If THAT lesson wasn't important, what other parts of school are equally unimportant?" She stops paying attention in class. Disciplinary action is taken. Mistaking a lack of interest for an actual learning disability, the overtaxed school system keeps moving her down the ranks of learning from regular school to remedial school to "Special Needs" school, all the way down to "Locked Room In The Basement With The Biters And Other Sociopaths". There she develops a crush on an 11-year-old third grader named "Snake". They start doing drugs together. Over the years their relationship grows by dysfunctional leaps and abusive bounds. They drop out of school when Molly is 13 to go live together in a van down by the river. Snake doesn't need a job, says Molly... their LOVE is all they need to survive! Soon they realize that they also need some money. Snake insists that Molly shouldn't have to work because that's a MAN'S job, but Snake goes through a dozen minimum-wage jobs before finally giving up. He starts taking Arc Welding Classes at the local community college, Molly is forced to take two jobs to put Snake through college. Waitress by day, stripper by night. The agreement is that after Snake gets an awesome Arc Welding job, he'll then pay back Molly by supporting her while SHE goes to college. Unfortunately, Molly finds out the hard way that Snake dropped out of the community college after the first week (because the instructer was "A Total Dick") and has been spending his tuition money on his NEW girlfriend, one of the girls that Molly strips with on Thursday nights. Distraught at the revelation of this betrayal, Molly rushes out of the strip club in to the cold, harsh streets of the city. She makes a vow to herself that she'll never let something like this happen again, that she's going to make a change in her life starting right now, just as soon as she crosses the street. Unfortunately, because she missed that lesson in school about red meaning stop and green meaning go? She dashes in to the street where gets hit by a city bus, falls on a dirty soup spoon, catches AIDS and DIES :(
So yeah... gonna go get a new alarm clock tonight...
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Date: 2011-09-02 05:29 pm (UTC)(I'm in a very Speculatively-Writey mood today)