Posted on 04/21/2016 12:04:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
she calls herself the “World’s Meanest Mom,” but a Minnesota mother said she has a reason for selling her daughter’s dream truck on Craigslist.
Amy Adams said her daughter “decided that her grades don’t matter, that she can disrespect myself and her siblings on a daily basis and that she has the right to skip school and run away from home.”
Adams added her daughter, who was just about to get her driver’s license, “was on her ‘one more chance and the truck was getting sold.’ And, she blew that ‘one more chance’ on Monday when she decided to skip school.”
The ad has generated hundreds of responses, many of them supportive – some even from other parents who aren’t even interested in buying the 1998 Dodge Ram she listed at $2,750, Adams told WFMY.
It wasn’t just the tough parental justice that turned heads, Adams clearly took pleasure in writing the following:
“If the person driving the truck on a daily basis will be attending North Branch high school next year, you will get a $300 discount. Why? Because, I AM the World’s Meanest Mom and would love for her to be reminded every day next year of all of the mistakes she made.”
The Craigslist post has since been flagged and taken down – Adams believes her daughter’s high school friends are doing it – but she said she’ll keep on posting it.
Adams said she, too, was a “snippy,” “obnoxious” teenager, but it was her mother – who preferred to be seen as a “mean mom” rather than a friend – whose values kept Adams on the right path.
Adams said she hopes her daughter “realizes that it’s okay to discipline your kids. And, it’s okay to have expectations (and) consequences.”
Then I make it 100,000:1 for the tramp stamp.
No we don’t need more mothers like that. Public shaming of your children on the Internet is not a good thing to do. Also, it sounds like her child was spoiled rotten in the first place. Which means she is overcompensating for lack of attention in the past.
All teenaged daughters have a right to a truck!
It’s in the Constitution!
Don't forget the free pony.
if a kid ever gets that disrespectful, the parents screwed up bigtime
The kid doesn’t have a license yet?
Kid is 15. DL in Minnesota is at age 16.
Yea for mom! psssst...Sell the cell phone, too.
Yes, it sounds like a silly, pretentious game all around, both of them.
Where’s Dad?
I blew it a few times. My explanation to my fellow bus passengers were I broke a piston, or blew a head gasket. Problem was, those were weekend fixes, and I was riding the bus for several weeks at a time.
There were no exceptions for work, either. And I had 25 minutes to get from school to work. It was 4 miles between the two on the roads I took. Walking was not an option.
No we don’t need more mothers like that. Public shaming of your children on the Internet is not a good thing to do. Also, it sounds like her child was spoiled rotten in the first place. Which means she is overcompensating for lack of attention in the past.
^^^^^ This
“All teenaged daughters have a right to a truck!
It’s in the Constitution!”
Or soon will be if Hillary or Trump appointments to the SCOTUS are fulfilled.
I’d sell the truck but would never advertise any reason for it.
No public humiliation is necessary.
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My first vehicle was a truck-I still drive an old 4x4-sensible for a remote rural area and a job in construction-I like men, and I don’t dip...
It just sounds so drama queenish.
I’m tempted to say no wonder hubby ain’t there. He got driven off by the insanity years ago.
As for the stated value, it’s possible that if daughter dearest got a JOB she could earn it in a summer. It’s not all that high.
My cub lost the it’s-my-car argument as a college student at the age of 18-1st time away from home, and suddenly it was falling grades, too much partying, suddenly disrespectful when she had not been that way before. We told her she was coming back home to live and commute to school, now, or we would take the car away-she argued, dad said your name is not on the title-and I drove “her” car home. She was home with her stuff in less than two weeks, and improved grades and attitudes soon followed-we returned the car in a month or so...
I guess Amy's bitter because that Hollywood thing didn't work out for her.
Staged crap. Like all ‘reality shows’(at least the few I’ve seen), everyone has one eye on the camera while pretending not to. Kardasian wannabes.
Well now she has the Fantasy Sneakers for her ride
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