kids school parent teacher org thing wants to elect a new president and people keep nudging me to throw my hat in the ring

well be careful what you wish for because if i'm made president, executive order eight 'o clock day one is banning fricken whatsapp

daydreaming

"gosh @pho4cexa the parent-faculty organization is on point with fundraising and planning this year with you at the helm. where did you learn to facilitate a meeting so productively?"

"oho, it all started because of this fan fiction about god-like kinky alien plants that meet a struggling anarcho-communist collective, the author read all of robert's rules of order as research before writing it, it had some great examples, let me give you the link"

is thrown out of the assembly

cowards rejected my motion to change our name to the obviously more inclusive "guardian-teacher-faculty organization"
navigating the complexities of parent-teacher-organization fundraising for the kids' school, i keep having intrusive thoughts about the way so many of us americans have to gofundme our medical expenses or how more than half of the firefighters in the country are unpaid volunteers
when attempting to play the uncomfortably alien role of enthusiastic, social, friendly helper for the parent teacher org thing, my persistent mantra is "imagine yourself as a yellow labrador retriever" 🐶 pto president mr.peanutbutter 🕶️

i've been getting sms spam at least once a week, steadily increasing, that started right after i got on whatsapp (because that's where the fricken fracken pto has their discussions) 😡

i did nothing except create an account, i have been refusing to allow access to my contacts every single time it prompts me and still this shit

if you ever convinced somebody to use whatsapp because of convenience or laziness i'm mad at you

it should be normal to get a new phone number every week. so people have to build a mechanism to look it up. which could include auth

no wait fuck that

it should be normal to not have a telephone number, or a telephone

realistically though the feeling of freedom that would come from getting a new phone number and abandoning the one that whatsapp sold to spammers now greatly outweighs the chore of updating it everywhere

and when i have to update it everywhere my adhd programmer brain will begin working on tricks to do it with less effort the next time, so i can do it again, with better preparation

i wonder if i can ask my wireless provider to just swap it out without a big fuss