Anonymous wrote:Pinecone Boy
Abstract OP is reporting live with a real post from her neighborhood listserv, which details how a child threw a pinecone at a passing car and was distraught when driver of said car stopped to yell at mom to tell her kid not to throw pinecones. May have ultimately died a 1-2 page death if not for the fact Mom's email signature was included, which was "Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams."
Discussion began at first with whether the mom had a point or the driver was being a jerk, then morphed into how a child could hit a car with a pinecone had he simply been removing it from his carseat as mom claimed. Tangential discussion of what exactly is a listserv is a fun digression, but ultimately the thread is defined by DCUM bringing all its literary knowledge to bear and suggesting apropos quotes for a helicopter mom of a pinecone snowflake to have on her email sig.
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/314104.page