Facebook, Princess Parties, and Me
Woman in the Middle | April 26, 2015Facebook seems to have gone from being the hip thing for young people to the place where middle-aged adults can complain until their typing fingers drop off. My daughters are rarely on Facebook anymore, but practically everyone I know who is my age is on it all the time. I wonder how Mark Zuckerberg feels about that?
I was just looking at Facebook a couple of minutes ago. I belong to a group someone started that is designed to share complaints information about my city. What I find interesting is the diametrically opposed views people have about the enforcement of our city’s noise ordinance. We have a real problem where I live with people having loud parties on weekends. Our city council gets more complaints about that than any other single issue. Two law enforcement officers are now assigned to do nothing but go around on Friday nights responding to noise complaints and issuing tickets.
Some people are very offended by this. They can’t believe they are being given tickets for loud noise before midnight. Other people are sick and tired of the noise and want it stopped, whatever time of day it is.
On the most recent string of comments some one posted something that really got my attention. He said an officer came out and gave them a noise ticket at 10:30 at night. This man said it made little seven-year old girls cry because they were having a princess birthday party and they had to shut off their music. Forgive my ignorance, but why would anyone be having a princess party for a bunch of little girls at 10:30 at night?????
When I read things like that it reminds me that I am truly different from some of my fellow human beings. I planned my daughter’s birthday parties to start after lunch and end by late afternoon. That way I didn’t have to feed seething masses of children lunch and could have them out of my house before dinner. Then I could collapse on the couch until bed time sent my own darlings off to slumber land and I could congratulate myself on surviving another birthday party. Believe me, keeping those kids around until after 10 at night, with loud music besides, just wasn’t going to happen at my house!
A party at 10.30pm is for the adults not the kids most kids would be in bed asleep by then, just saying, it makes me think of all the idiots who take grog to a child’s party that is not done. I am on Facebook usually to check things about the grandchildren’s schools and stuff like that