Ferris Bueller

So, it turns out that D2 didn't have such a great prom experience after all. She came home Sunday morning, and I asked her how it went, and she said it went fine. Upon more detailed cross examination, she let on that, oh yeah, one girl got sick from drinking, and had to go to the hospital --but she was fine.

Later that night, I got an email from one of the other prom dads. He assumed that I knew about "the debacle." I didn't. It turns out that after that lovely pre prom party, the kids on the bus directed the driver to a second "phantom party." This was at a girl's house where there were no parents, but there WAS stashed quantities of alcohol.

Two of the kids drank so much, that they were passed out by the time they reached the party, and were taken to local hospitals. Police were called, and threatened to give the kids on the bad bus breathylizer tests. In other words --a disaster.

D2, instead of calling me to come get her, lied to some of the other parents, and went ahead to the hotel, where she spent the night. To say I was livid with her is an understatement. I screamed so much and so loudly that my throat hurt for 3 days.

D2 is grounded for the remainder of the school year.

The principal called an assembly for the kids on the bus, and they all confessed to the underage drinking. The penalty: no attendance at the annual Disney "Grad Night."

D2 went to see the principal the next day, and said she felt bad, but that, as a sophomore, she couldn't go to Grad Night anyway, so she escaped school punishment, although she was grounded at home.

Later that morning, Wifey was at a PTSA meeting at the school, and the principal came in. He didn't know that D2's mother was there, but shared a story about "a delightful girl who came to his office, took responsibility...her parents raised a wonderful young lady...the future of the high school, with kids like D2 is great...etc..."

It was nauseating. Like the great character Ferris Bueller --D2, who broke several rules, and abused my trust, was somehow lauded as a hero.

Talk about being her father's daughter...