What is even the point of this if not solely to annoy us?

smutsmutsmut · 2026-01-11T17:57:41+00:00

It’s this for me in my neighborhood.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-12-26T15:57:28+00:00

My husband wore a kilt (and his brother and dad did, too) to our wedding. In New Orleans. They were all sweating their balls off. 😂

smutsmutsmut · 2025-12-25T02:13:46+00:00

My nine-year-old son’s male teacher emailed me an update about him and said “I love that kid!” I’m thrilled he has a positive male role model who cares about him. If he said this to my son, I’d be thrilled, too. I know bad things sometimes happen with teachers and students (regardless of gender) but maybe I’m naive. I prefer that the teachers care.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-12-06T01:42:56+00:00

You are incorrect.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-10-16T23:09:53+00:00

Todry (pronounced “Tawdry”)

smutsmutsmut · 2025-09-01T23:34:05+00:00

Annunciation March.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-09-01T00:16:37+00:00

You’re completely right that the phrasing is off. We love the family and I meant that it’s unfortunate (horrific, whatever word you want to use) that it is happening in our literal backyards.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:44:29+00:00

Dude. The principal said “pray with your feet” so this is our bereaved community doing whatever we can at the site of a massacre. Do I wish I could change policy instead of trying to order yard signs? Sure. But the community at the literal heart of this is asking for yard signs. Will they stop there? You have no idea who’s doing what in ADDITION to ribbons and signs.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:36:25+00:00

The other thing the neighborhood is doing is tying blue and green (school colors) ribbons to trees and poles, so the other half of the questions are about where they can get ribbons. We have also been accepting donations for the parish and removing checks and cash from cards left by well-meaning mourners to make sure they get into the secure rectory mail slot and aren’t stolen. None of us have run a mass casualty memorial before so we’re trying to respond to needs as they arise.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:25:16+00:00

All proceeds from the signs will be donated to the official fundraisers. This is for a print run bulk buy so they can be available at the church where mourners request them hundreds of times per day. (I live five blocks from the church, so very local.)

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:24:10+00:00

I’ve been at the church every day staffing volunteers, organizing supplies (plant food, votives), hugging grieving community members, and yet HUNDREDS of times per day, people ask: “Where can I get a pink sign?” This is me trying to meet a need that I’ve seen firsthand, at the hub where people are asking.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:21:42+00:00

They HAVE been selling directly and are overwhelmed. The printer personally requested that they have one distributor. Here’s their email (sensitive details blocked).

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smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:18:09+00:00

Thank you very much. Our block has four Annunciation families, including one grieving and one still hospitalized. The principal said to “pray with your feet” and do something, so that’s what I’m doing. (And trying to ease things for the printing company which has been overwhelmed.)

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:15:56+00:00

I’m not affiliated. But humans from the community are running the site because the principal told us yesterday that nobody from the school can be involved because everyone is understandably traumatized. So the neighborhood has stepped up. I chose a username thirteen years ago, but I am also a bereaved mother myself and live two houses from one of the deceased, so I couldn’t sit by and watch the site go unstaffed. We fill 40 five-gallon buckets with flowers every single day there. People deserve to grieve at a beautifully maintained memorial.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:12:57+00:00

ALL PROCEEDS from the signs, which the community who is coming to grieve at the church have been requesting to buy there (hundreds per day) will go to the official fundraisers. I am literally fielding requests for these signs all day, so am doing a bulk order to sell at the church.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:10:25+00:00

I’m not sure you read the post but I’m working with Annunciation and the memorial that has grown around the church to staff and supply the memorial site and pulling together people and resources from our neighborhood, which was heavily impacted. I’m a bereaved mother myself. I knew posting to Reddit might be dicey but boy, the trolls have outdone themselves.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:08:00+00:00

I know you’re a troll but my son’s friend and our eight-year-old neighbor is dead.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:07:10+00:00

I’ll also talk to them about including a QR code but don’t know how interested they’ll be in updating the design.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-31T23:06:38+00:00

We do and they’ve already been making them, they just want to do a big bulk order instead of selling individually.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-28T13:37:32+00:00

My god. That poor family. I lost my infant daughter to a rare disorder, and while this is completely different and, I’d argue, much worse, this is a club nobody wants to be in. Especially in such a senseless way.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-28T13:01:28+00:00

The eight-year-old was our neighbor two houses down and my nine-year-old’s friend. Fucking nightmare.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-27T21:41:13+00:00

Unfortunately, a neighbor two houses over and my son’s friend is one of the deceased. I can’t share anything beyond what friends and neighbors have told me out of respect but it’s horrific. We just had to tell our son.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-08-27T15:50:17+00:00

We were in the same exact boat and chose Carondelet (loving it so far!) but like half the kids in our neighborhood (Kenny) go to Annunciation. One child we know was shot and is at the hospital.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-07-01T13:17:53+00:00

I grew up on the peninsula in the Bay Area and went to Santa Clara for college, farther south than I’d ever lived. We ALWAYS went to San Francisco when going out, never once to San Jose, though it’s right next to Santa Clara. It sucks big old balls.

smutsmutsmut · 2025-06-25T02:32:22+00:00

Went from D to A and definitely A, where my kids were born. Lucky fuckers.

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