Attack of the OPK

We were free of the obnoxious OPK for 6 glorious months. We should have known it wouldn't last.

She showed back up a few weeks ago--telling more and more outrageous stories (read: lies). I think she's a compulsive liar. She couldn't tell the truth, much less share it, if her life depended upon it.

We also noticed the obnoxious behaviors living in our house with us.

I like that the Howler is fiercely loyal, but I find it hard to find a way to discourage this friendship.

I think, yesterday, I've discovered it.

The O-OPK showed up with her 2 year old brother in tow. That their mother was not the least bit concerned about looking for them for over an hour is what did it.

I am not someone's free babysitter--especially not this someone. When she did show up, it wasn't to take them home, it was to stand and watch them, in my yard, and probably to see where I was. I was in the kitchen window, unable to see her for our garden--tomatoes and corn grow taller than I am, and since she was sans her bar hag uniform, she was almost invisible herself.

Then, after I managed to extricate the Howler and the O-OPK from the pool, the girl showed up later, bringing her brother with her again.

I soooo don't think so.

I sent them home, telling them that the Howler and I were spending some time, this evening, just the two of us. So they left.

Earlier, I had begun telling the Howler that I will no longer tolerate the screaming, the crazy and inappropriate talk about boys (and what the O-OPK wants to do with/to them) and I will no longer tolerate the defiance and obnoxiousness that usually accompanies the O-OPK. And if the behavior shows up after time spend with the O-OPK, it will have the same results--no more O-OPK ever.

I can only hope that I can convince the Howler of this--and that the Spider-Stomping Mama moves soon. She will not behave as if her parents are a bar hag and a pusher.

I do so hope that this woman tries to take issue with me over this. It could be a good way to vent my frustration at her intrusion in my life.

Don't get me wrong--I do not blame these kids. But I am fully aware that I am not able to change their situation, and I do not have to accept their parents idiocy, especially when it collides with my life, family, and home.

I am not a dumping ground for your unwanted and unattended children. I am not going to have your stupidity and trailer-trash ways--and I don't have to tolerate it.

For God's sake--if you don't want your kids, or are unable/unwilling to raise them, have yourself neutered before you make more; and be adult enough to find them homes where they are welcome and where they can have a chance to not be like you. Your only other option is to make changes in yourself that will make them--and you--better people.