We went to the Como Zoo on Good Friday. Our plan was to go to the Minnesota Zoo and meet my friend and her two kids there. About a mile from the zoo I got a call on my cell phone from my friend.
“It’s a fucking zoo out here” she yelled over the screaming of her kids in the back seat.
Apparently we weren’t the only ones who thought it would be a good idea to get the kids out into the fresh air on a day off of school. Everyone and their brother was out at the zoo. We turned the cars around and headed back to the old city zoo. The free zoo where the animals are all depressed.
The city zoo was a madhouse too. There were so many people there it was crazy. But it was free and the kids needed to get out so we persevered through the crowds of teenagers and snot nosed kids.
Zoo Attire
It was warm for Minnesota, around 50 degrees. It was also sunny but there was a bit of a breeze which made it feel colder. A light jacket was necessary. I don’t know who raised the kids who were visiting the zoo that day but obviously they cared little about how their children dressed. We have a huge welfare population out here who get free health care and it is obvious they rely on it since most of the kids were walking around in shorts and flip flops.
I was making snarky comments to my friend about mothers who let their kids outside wearing clothing more suited to July. I asked her where are these mothers? I expected my friend, who is just as sarcastic as me, to reply something along the lines that the mothers were too busy doing crack to worry about practical footwear for their children. Instead she just pointed to a woman, a mother, who was dressed in high heels, a skirt that could only be sold as lingerie and wearing a leopard coat. Her tramp stamps were visible through the mesh of her skirt. Her many children were sporting similar attire. I don’t think the woman was thinking irony when she chose her leopard fur coat for the days activities.
Monkey See
Sadly there were many women, mothers obviously by the children that were hanging around them, dressed like this. The teens who were hanging out at the zoo, teasing the monkeys, were dressed like gang members. The girls that is. Do these people think this is an attractive look? Seriously? My kid dresses funny, he wears big pants and gothic t-shirts. He has colored his hair. However, he nor his friends, slick back their hair, wear lip liner or wear suggestive t-shirts that say “I swallow” on them.
I wanted to grab some of these young ladies and wipe the make-up off their faces and then lecture them on bad reputations. I probably would have been arrested if I had but the desire to was incredibly strong.
Monkey Do
As we were leaving a child was having a fit. The mother who was tired from walking around the rough terrain in five inch FM pumps grabbed her child by the arm and gave her the last warning.
“Tiffini, if you don’t behave right this minute there will be no bowling tonight,” she said as she dragged bratty little Tiffini off to the car.
My daughter looked at me and said very sarcastically, “I don’t think Tiffini is going to go bowling tonight”.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Your daughter is very funny…
Somehow I feel I live in a zoo. Hmmm, I wonder why?
Goats like to watch the people go by. They find them quite amusing. So I guess we have something in common….
It causes me to cringe when I see the way some teen girls dress. Some overweight ones think it is attractive to wear their shirts short and their pants low so their fat stomachs can hang out. GROSS!! Do teen boys find them attractive dressed that way?
Pricilla, I think this is why the animals are depressed at this zoo. They have to stare at these strange humans who have no idea how to dress properly all day long.
Judy, The boys think these girls will “put out”. I doubt they care about the muffin top as they are only interested in one thing. It’s very sad that our kids have no clue. Hopefully they will grow out of it and if their parents are smart they will take many pictures so they can embarrass them later when they get their shit together.
Ypour daughter is a trip! I can’t imagine where she gets it! Luckliy, I taught my kids how to respect themselves and dress accordingly.. It sickens me to see them moms and kids dress alike, especially when the mom is dressing like a hooker
Seriously what people wear these days and the whole welfare mom thing just shocks me still!! I don’t get it!!
Dizz, I’ve dressed my kids in the same things for ever. Jeans and t-shirts. The same stuff I wear. Daughter tends to have a lot of pink clothing however. Actually it’s pink with chocolate all over it. Sorry, I’m doing laundry right now and am irritated that there is soooo much chocolate on her clothing. I doubt she actually got any candy in her mouth looking at her clothing.
If you are a hooker I think it is okay to dress like one. And if it’s bring your daughter to work day then she should dress like a hooker too. Besides when mom retires she can hand the biz down to her daughter.
It never ceases to amaze me to see moms dressed like hookers, and the kids follow suit.
You should see what they wear to church.
I certainly agree in with you, in principle, that moms who dress like sluts are bad influences on their teenage girls.
But the dressing wars cannot be won. Which explains why my son walks around dressed like a vampire much of the time (yes, eyeliner and all).
It’s a form of self-expression. And while it is certainly NOT appropriate at school or the Temple, I have no great angst about the zoo.
Your daughter is hilarious! Great to see that some kids are still raised right. Fantastic!
It’s always funny to me to see trips to the zoo, theme parks, etc, end with the children in tears. It so often happens!
SLColman, I don’t get it either. I wasn’t getting down on welfare moms, though I probably could, I was just amazed that these kids were running around dressed in so little. Maybe they left the coat in the car and mom doesn’t know but I doubt it.
Old Man, Church was the one last place we had to dress up. Remember when we dressed up to fly on an airplane? When we had school clothes and play clothes, work clothes….. I have often thought if we all dressed better we would be a more civilized place. Of course I believe that if we all wore footy pajamas we’d all be a lot more fun and not so cranky.
Mother, I don’t have a problem with kids dressing differently. I don’t even mind the tatts and the piercings. It’s when they say suggestive things that leave nothing to the imagination that bothers me. Young women face enough today being sexual objects, they don’t have to dress that way to prove it. I remember when leaving something to the imagination was considered sexy. There is no mystery with a lot of these girls today. And seeing their mothers who look just as skanky dress the same way is just sad.
Froggy, I wonder if I am raising her correctly each day but I do know that she is covered up and wears a coat when we go out in the cold. She will not be getting her own tramp stamp as long as she is living under my roof.
Shawn, I think that is the only way these trips can end. Everyone is tired and broke and the kids never get enough of what they want.
I think I have to go and yell at some kids to get off my grass. Somehow I have turned into my grandfather.
Oh you remind me of how I feel in public sometimes. I was at a college basketball game when the halftime pep squad came out in their spandex “uniforms” and spent 5 minutes gyrating. When they were done I asked my husband—loudly—if he had a dollar bill. The guy behind me snickered, but I know he was thinking that too. I think/hope…
Your daughter’s funny.
HILARIOUS -the assumed spelling on “Tiffini” roflmao.
Louise (Frogs), I did the same thing once. In Mexico on family vacation. Walking through the lobby with my brother, I see him staring at a woman who was a bit large in the chest area. I said to him in my outside voice “What, do you think those are real?” I forget how to behave in public sometimes.
Stacie, I wasn’t sure anyone would pick that up. I’m not a bad speller really.
flip flops and a t-shirt are better then those HORRIBLE valour trackpants with the Juicy on the bum.
How can people put a 6 year old girl in pants that say Juicy is beyond me.
Steph, I don’t get it either. If a parent is going to stamp their six year old with “juicy” they might as well give her classes on pole dancing at least she will be ready.
I suspect the Mom had a different idea, called Tiffani bowling, and used her as the ball.
At least it is quality time, right?
One- it was Farm Babies – that event is the craziest thing I have ever seen, seriously is feeding a chicken that novel of an idea that we line up at a zoo to do it 🙂
Yes, you are so right, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Tramp stamps don’t either.
Funny post!