Some people just didn’t get the joke.

A fine family was out to dinner over the weekend in a lovely hamlet we’ll call, for lack of anything else, Germantown.

It’s a pretty town with lovely people, and an pompous ass or two!

The mother of the fine family posted a picture of her son, we’ll call him Sam, and simply said, “You’ve got a baby, in a bar.” Laffs.

Sam I Am.

I got it, “Sweet Home Alabama”, you know that cute little Chick Flick staring Reese Witherspoon and Candace Bergen.  It’s a great flick, and if you’ve not seen it, I highly recommend it.

But alas, said mother posted the pix on the wrong facebook page at first.  She posted it by accident on a “group” page that helps us all to remember the fun times and good people of the aforementioned hamlet.

Well, as I like to say, “The shit hit the fan.”

Seriously, several bottles of 409 were necessary to clean UP this mess.

Some, like me,  got the joke,  Others of lesser humor, thought it abhorrent that a self-respecting citizen of the not so dry little burg would take a child into a bar.

A bar, I might add, that serves food.

Sixty-three comments later, I realized just how dangerous Facebook can be.

The internet is forever, and poor little - we’ll call him Sam - is forever tainted as the Cheerio munching munchkin mugging through dinner as his parents and sister munched burgers and fries in the quaint, idyllic yet rustic atmosphere of Laff’s Tavern, known for its “warm beer and lousy food.”

Several self-righteous residents decided that the mom should be burned at the stake, drawn and quartered, shunned by the Amish, and reported to the department of family services.

At first the comments were funny, then they got a tad, what’s the word I’m looking for, stupid, yeah, that’s it, stupid. 

And praise be to sanity, some people actually opined that the comments were getting a scoouch out of hand.  I think this one from – and I don’t know her – Karen Wetzel Hermetz, is the best:   ”This is by far one of the most entertaining post I’ve encountered on Facebook in a long time! Thanks to everyone who contributed, it really brought back memories of Germantown (and why I got the heck out of there twenty years ago.)”

It’s a restaurant with a bar.

It’s a line from a movie, a funny line.

So, to those of us in the world who are often too judgemental, too hasty, too pious, and to prejudiced:  lighten UP, the kid had the keys to the car, and it’s not like he let his dad drive home drunk!

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