Sky is Falling, except it’s not
Bamboozled again. What else is new. My two college daughters, during the finals of last semester, announced how they were both idiots, did not understand the various subject matter of their classes, were likely going to flunk out of school and were ill equipped to survive in this world, never mind college.
I got calls from both girls, at least once a day, both of them detailing for me the perilous state they were in. The drama meter was in the red zone, all fire and brimstone. Naturally I fall for all of this, making the quantum leap of faith that they were really telling me the accurate state of affairs. It turns out I’m the idiot.
Well, the smoke clears, and somehow both girls “recover” and got excellent grades for the semester. When I asked them how they could work me the way they did with talk of the apocalypse they both looked at me blankly, like “what are you talking about?”. Their over the top drama displays are just a day in the park to them. How do I still far for this crap?! Beyond gullible!