Overheard at Table 3: Oppositional Defiant Disorder

"So when are you gonna start bringing your people back into the office?  Once they all get vaccinated?"

"I'd like to as soon as possible, yeah, but I know one that I can't.  Her son has ODD."

"Oppositional Defiant Disorder?"

"Yeah.  12 years old.  Last week he stabbed his sister with a shard of glass.  Now my employee says they can't be left alone together, or with someone else."

"Kids these days."

"No foolin'!"

Overheard at Table 4: Raising Teens (Kids These Days Episode 2.11)

Misty was saying,

"I just found out he'd been lying to me since October.  He said he was doing work at school when he was telling his counselor that he was doing his work at home.  And now it's half his English grade, and his teacher said he'd give him one more week to complete it, but it's HALF his grade.  He hasn't done ANY work on it.  And I can't get into the school system to pull it down so I can help get him to complete it.   I don't know what to do.  He might not pass and they might have to hold him back and I'm so scared that he'll try to commit suicide again."

And I was there, just listening to her, not really knowing what to say.  What can you say to things like that?  All our kids these days are kicking us in the shins or slitting their wrists.  Either way, they're controlling us.

Overheard at Table 3: Kids These Days

Writer 1: So then we have the twins come out as transgender.


Writer 2: I thought we were going to go with straight-up gay.


Writer 3: "Straight-up gay" - good one!


Writer 1: No, they're going to have their 8th birthday party in episode 3 this season, they need to come out as transgender, only Lucas will want to start transitioning NOW and Marcus will want to wait until they're closer to puberty.


Writer 3: Marcus always is the more cautious one.


Writer 2: Then we can have a big argument where Lucas will say Marcus will want to back out when Lucas is already halfway transitioned ....


Writer 1: ... which will break the pact they made in Season 1 Episode 10 to


Writer 3: ... always be a unit.  Right.


Writer 2: Cool, that could take up a solid 10 of screen time.


Writer 3: We could have the argument right through the last 20 of the episode.  Start at minute 9, go through the end.


Writer 2: Filler?


Writer 1: We still have Becca's subplot.


Writer 3: The cutting?


Writer 2: I thought we agreed to move on from cutting by Epi 2 this season.


Writer 1: Whoa whoa whoa, didn't you guys forget?   Her and Charlie?


Writer 3: "Lust for Grandpa" ?  Are you sure we really want to go with that?


Writer 2: Pushing the limits.  That's what we do.   13 year old girl wants to lose her cherry to her 60 year old grandpa.


Writer 3: Mike told me we still haven't gotten her parents to sign off on that yet.


Writer 1: Let Legal deal with that.  We're writing it in.  By the time we're shooting the episode her parents will be on board.  The studio will kick in a 20 grand bonus.


Writer 3: I'm sure if they bump it up to 30g the parents will let us film her full frontal.


Writer 1: God I love working on this show!