Laziest? No. There are small children out there, where their junkie parents are too busy getting high to feed them and/or tend to them. That situation gets me angry, one where a parent just really, doesn't care about their child. However, calling someone a 'lazy bitch' over sneakers is totally unneeded.

It's just nice to live in a country where most of the people can afford a car to not have to walk 30 minutes for a simple errand. God bless America! :-D

Please don't assume that this mother represents the standard of most American parents. I know of very, very few parents who would not drive or walk 15 minutes to help out their own child. And while this mother won't be receiving any Parent of the Year awards anytime soon, I doubt you're in danger of winning any Most Open-Minded prizes either.

I think most people would drive if they lived a 15 minute drive away... It's not really a matter of being lazy. That's a pretty damn long walk. Well over an hour if they live out in the country and most of that 15 minute drive is at a decent speed rather than stopped at traffic lights.

ive lived in the usa for one year. my host family wasnt even able to take me to school because of money issues or they just didnt feel like it. so i had to walk 30 minutes. its ****** up. "god bless america" you know that america is the continent and most people in south america would never say something like that?

you lived in the usa for a year? wow, thank god you're here, or else we'd know NOTHING about how things work in america. for example, i had no idea that NORTH america and SOUTH america had indeed converged and made ONE continent instead of it's usual TWO. we tend not to coddle our own youth, why in the world would we make special considerations for you that we wouldn't for our own children? walking a half an hour isn't exactly a marathon, you know. take off the dress and end this little tea party. come back when you REALLY have something to whine about, and hopefully have a better handle on geography you dumbass.

Well, maybe if most people did the exact opposite thing, choose to walk for an hour instead of driving for 15 minutes there would't be so many obese people. Just a possibility!

Yeah you lived with them for free and all they did was board you and feed you and pay for your needs. Damn them for making you walk a mile. I walked 20 mins to school since 3rd grade to 12th. Boo Hoo. And if our country sucks, don't come here then.

Excuse me but not all Americans are like that. Thanks for being a generalizing asshole.

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"Not feeling like driving the 15 minutes..." The OP said it herself. She wasn't busy, she just didn't feel like doing it. If she had any other reason for not doing it beyond being lazy, it's her fault for not being able to accurately write out her own statement and fabricate all of these assumptions.

FMLs have a pretty short character limit. It's not easy to put all the details in. And like I said, people who work from home don't usually have strict hours to keep so even if she did work from home it would most likely be a matter of whether or not she felt like it rather than whether or not she was too busy.

And if she had a good reason for not going, or if she thought it was best for her daughter in the long run not to go, why wouldn't she just tell that to the school administrator that called? "Oh, my daughter isn't prepared? Please have her sit out of this activity, and I will have a discussion with her about being prepared for school when she comes home today." That would have the proper response to the call--not making up a complete lie. And as far as all the good reasons some people think she may have had? My incredible powers of deductive reasoning tell me that if she really had a good reason not to go, she would have said so instead of having to make up a lie.

My point was people can't assume she wasn't working and was only going to be watching Oprah all day or doing housework just because she wasn't too busy as opposed to just not feeling like it. Not feeling like it is an OK reason, but not exactly something you're going to really want to tell the teacher ringing. It's gym shoes. At worst she might have to sit a class out. Most likely she'll just do gym in her normal shoes or bare feet. It's not a reason to spend over half an hour driving in the middle of the day for something the daughter should have remembered, and now will probably remember next time.