Some people should not be allowed to be parents.

[velvett]

My girlfriend is also a designer and she's had this on and off again client for a few years now. So we're catching up the other day over lunch and she tells me the client is back in her life.

Background:

Client - Married straight couple, fairly well off monetarily but very cheap (yes not cautious w/ money - just a penny wise and a dollar foolish) 2 year old boy, wife is preggo with a girl.

House - 1 story house, 5 bedrooms, includes separate guest wing and maid's quarter's (I've been to the house a few times to help my gal pal out) they've added on to the house twice in 6 years.

So in short the parents want to take the little boy's room and make it the little girl's room and put the boy in the media/den (2 walls of built-ins, plasma, sofa and two chairs).

Now a normal person would think that they meant that they wanted to turn the media/den into the little boy's room. Right? Well, NO. They don't want to touch anything in the room, they just want to wedge a bed in between the wall and the back of the sofa because they still want to use the room as a place to WATCH TV.

WTF?

You have 3 other bedrooms and you've going to put your first born on a bed in your TV ROOM, they might as well put the kid in the garage.

What is wrong with people?

 

[pdaddy]

I agree, they would better off just putting them all in cages.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Yup, just be sure to honk before backing out so the kid knows to crawl out of the way!

 

[gotmilk]

That's a kids dream...tv, couch in your room, hopefully satellite tv

 

[big4life]

LOL!!!

Please tell me you're joking.

 

[ChefWide]

Wtf?

I rarely get a feeling that i would like to grab n' shake, but that shit is just so calous...

Not good. not at all.

 

[SoreArms]

by "some" I think you mean "most"

 

[velvett]

That's a kids dream...tv, couch in your room, hopefully satellite tv

True true.

He's two - he can barely get into the sofa by himself.

When they put him down for a nap will they just watch TV while he's sleeping?


I wouldn't be surprised that when he's 4 or 5 he'll take that sofa cushion and sit down on it, on top of his sister's face.

 

[HiDnGoD]

At 6 he's gonna be sittin there watching Seymour Butts, Daddy left on the DVD.

 

[Raina]

That's insane. They have their priorities all screwed up.

 

[H_T_]

i swear there is such a thing as a functionally retarded person. there is!

 

[Beachbum1546]

Do they have X-box?

 

[jerkbox]

try watching Nanny 911....you'll see some people who really should just have their reproductive organs ripped out

 

[EnderJE]

At 6 he's gonna be sittin there watching Seymour Butts, Daddy left on the DVD.

Yep.

At 12, he's going to be horribly scarred because he's going to catch mom and dad copying the debbie does dallas movies...

At 18, Eric Menendez!

 

[Testosterone boy]

The History channel is about the only thing I watch.

The human race has a frightening history. Most of us only know of 1% of just how bad our history is.

 

[bluehen]

That's terrible if that TV is anything less than 56"!

 

[GoldenDelicious]

well...the optimist in me says the parents might snap out of it before the kid is old enough to remember

the rest of me says...lol...idiots

 

[gotmilk]

I wouldn't be surprised that when he's 4 or 5 he'll take that sofa cushion and sit down on it, on top of his sister's face.

Another kid's dream. This kid has it made as long as his parents don't boot him to the backyard with a tarp and a sleeping bag.