JG: Why would you ever want to unsee it?

H&F: You know, just to live a normal life.

JG: I had this thing where my daughter is four, she goes to a preschool. [As a parent], you certainly meet a lot of really cool parents and you deal with a lot of annoying parents. Just like life. So, we had something where one of my parents in my daughter’s class sent out this mass email to all the parents in my daughter’s class because her daughter was having trouble in school. And she felt like "Hey, maybe we can all get together and talk about if anyone else's kids are having a tough time." Like really just annoying, super indulgent, and I didn't even respond to it. But I just wanted to say "Just go talk to the teachers about it." You know? You don't have to involve everyone in your problems. Some people are like that.

And it turned into this thing where other parents are responding, "Oh, my kid's feeling like that too. I thought I was the only one." And oh yeah, it just took on this steam with a bunch of the parents, not all of the parents, but some of the parents, and wanting to have a get-together, but not include the teachers. And it was making me really uncomfortable to read all of this. It's like, this is a terrible idea. You know, go talk to the teachers if you have a problem. Don't go behind their backs and do it. It became this thing where certain parents were not happy about it, some parents were fine with it. One of the school administrators was involved. And once she got involved I actually reached out to the administrator and I said, "Look, I want to make it really clear and go on the record that not all the parents support what's going on here. I'm one of them, I think this is a terrible idea."

She was really nice, the school is really great; the administrators are great, the teachers are awesome. So we start meeting this administrator, start having an email exchange about "how do we best deal with this, what's the best approach." And it went on for a few emails, and it was really nice and we were both helping each other, and then after one of the last exchanges she writes back, "Thanks so much for helping me with this. Who knew the O'Nutters guy could be so wise?"

That made me laugh so hard. It was so funny coming from this administrator of the school; that is way more articulate and eloquent than I could ever be as far as the exchange. And I actually emailed Amy and I told her the whole story and she laughed really hard, that this wise school administrator is even watching that show.