I almost can't bring myself to post this through the tears...
Our lazy, ungrateful, waster DC has just "achieved" the most shocking set of GCSE results imaginable, bringing irreversible shame and ruin upon our family and more importantly, upon my determination to live my dreams vicariously through him.
He got 15 A*s and one A. I really don't know what went wrong. The school were saying that he was doing well and there was nothing to worry about, but they were obviously lying through their teeth. ONLY an A in Advanced Semiotic Interpretations of Ancient Greek Proto-Quantum Theory! How could he slip like that and they not have warned us?
DC is already 11 and we are (were?) of course determined that he would go to Oxbridge before his 13th birthday. The Bottomly-Finglethwaites' daughter down the road is 14 and just about to complete her doctorate at Yale. Now DC is going to make us the laughing stock of the whole village.
Anyway, since my maternal great-aunt was 1/17 Japanese, I take face saving measures in these situations very seriously. I am thus, naturally, thinking having my entire unfortunate family exterminate themselves in ritual hara-kiri.
What would you do?
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Overcome with anger and shame: thinking of exterminating entire family
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confidence · 28/08/2011 01:01
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