Get Over It Kid And Go To School!
Chalk this story up to yet another person not understanding how “dangerous” a pissed off teenager and the Internet can be.
A few days ago, a Virginian high school senior in by the name of Dave Kori woke up to find that school wasn’t canceled. So he looked up the listed phone number of Dean Tistadt, the man in charge of making the decision, called up his house, and left a message asking why. I should say that there’s no recording of his initial phone call, which might have been very nasty to begin with, but we’ll never know. Why? Because the focus is being, um…focused…on the phone call he got in return!
Turns out Dean wasn’t home. But his wife was! She proceeded to leave him a scathing phone number demanding he never call their house again and to get over it and go to school. So what did he do? Naturally, he made a Facebook page, listing his phone number and work e-mail and posted a video of the recording to YouTube.
Did Kori “cross the line” in terms of etiquette and good manners by posting the recording to YouTube? Probably, but as others have pointed out, this is more of a generational gap than anything. Plus it’s hilarious when it’s not happening to you!
Below is video from the CNN news report, which talks about the story, has a recording of the angry message, and a screen shot of the Facebook page. I’ve yet to find a link to said Facebook page, but then again I only tried for about 8 seconds and then got distracted by a flashing banner ad asking me to throw a banana at a monkey.
For a copy of the entire message, read on.
Candy Tistadt, Dean Tistadt, Facebook, Dave Kori
“This is Candy Tistadt, Dean Tistadt’s wife. This message is for Dave Kori. How dare you call us at home?!
If you’ve got a problem with going to school, you do not call somebody’s house and complain about it.
My husband was up at 4 o’clock this morning, trying to decide the best thing to do, to send you to school, on a day when the weather man is calling for one thing and another thing happens.
You don’t begin to know what you are talking about, and don’t you ever call here again!
My husband has been at the office since 6:30 this morning, so don’t you even suggest that he purposely didn’t answer his phone.
He is out almost every single night of the week at meetings for snotty-nosed little brats, and he may not have called you but it is not because he’s home because it snowed.
Get over it kid, and go to school. Get an education, that’s what you’re there for.”
