I have had countless conversations about Hannah Montana over the
past couple of weeks, which is stunning, considering I don't think I
had uttered the rather catchy (and fake) name more than once or twice
total before that. In any case, all of the discussions involved one or
more of these three elements: first-graders (first-graders!); $450
concert tickets (for a fake singer!); mothers living through their
daughters (in this day and age!).
Until today, the sickest
anecdote came from my aunt-in-law, a second-grade teacher, who told me
about a first-grader at her school. The girl's mom shelled out nearly
$2,000 for four concert tickets, plus transportation and dinner for the
mother-daughter pairs in a limo that was taking them on the four-hour
round-trip. Did they open the wet bar too? Stand through the sunroof
and lift up their Hanna Montana concert tees?
That story got trumped, though, when I came across this:
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