Banal Post of The Weekend
I subscribe to the “local” RSS feed from The Washington Examiner’s website and usually the posts are pretty tame compared to posts on national and world-wide news, but they are still sort of interesting at least. For example, here are some random headlines I’ve selected from the feed as of 8:30 this evening:
Md.’s highest court: Take-home vehicle arrangement for state police illegal
Hunt is on for money to build Dulles Rail
But the top, indeed, the “Featured Column” post is the following:
Sleepovers leave parents at wit’s end, kids hollow-eyed
I hadn’t meant to eavesdrop, honestly, but the conversation at the next table was so comically familiar that I couldn’t help tipping back in my chair so as to hear it better. It was an extended two-person lament about one of the great banes of modern domestic life. It suffused me with fellow feeling.
“… And the next day she’s a wreck!”
“Oh, the whole weekend is done.”
“Ruined.”
What causes such ruin and wreckage? Sleepovers. For reasons that are not altogether clear, children seem to have an inexhaustible desire to spend the night at their friends’ houses, or to have their friends spend the night at theirs — though sleep is usually the last thing anyone gets.
It sounds like The Onion, doesn’t it? Please, Washington Examiner, I know this is the “local” section but this does not count as news unless you’re a newly arrived alien life-form.
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