Unaccompanied Minor Read Online Free PDF

I’m betting more fun was had in remembering the event than in the actual experiencing of it, because today Flo is sixty-seven years old.
    Yes, you heard me right. Those pictures were taken over seventeen years ago, soon after my mother had been hired on as a flight attendant. Not only were they depicting an event that occurred years before I was born, but before she ever met Ash Manning, or even my father. In the real world those pictures would have had no bearing whatsoever on judging a person’s parenting abilities. But remember, family court doesn’t live in the real world.
    In family court those pictures were validated by the date reflected on them—the date they had been uploaded to the Facebook account—and that date was just a few weeks prior to the contempt hearing, and most of the time, as in this case, the judge doesn’t even
see
the pictures. His decisions are based on the guardian ad litem’s report, and the report in this case stated, verbatim (I know this because I read it), “Facebook photos dated during Mother’s custodial time show her highly inebriated and engaging in acts of public indecency.” See? See how it’s a technically accurate statement but at the same time a big, crappy, soul-sucking lie?
That’s
what family court is like.
    Again, I don’t blame my mother for attacking Kathy. Kathy Landry is a she-beast and a succubus. Whenever I’m around her she talks about me as though I’m not there, referring to me as “The Child,” as in, “It would serve the court for you to e-mail your ex-wife a list of suggested summer camps, Ash. That way it would appear as though you take an interest in The Child’s extracurricular activity.”
    I would not have known about the attack if not for the fact that it became the most popular link on the local news website and got splattered all over everybody’s Twitter feeds. “WorldAir Flight Attendant Arrested for Assault and Terroristic Threats,” the headline read. It was impossible not to click on that.
    I’m attaching for you my copy of the news thread:
    WorldAir Flight Attendant Arrested for Assault and Terroristic Threats
    January 15, 2013—Elizabeth Manning, 39, a flight attendant for WorldAir, was arrested this afternoon and charged with assault for allegedly attacking Kathy Landry, 29, a corporate attorney for WorldAir. The alleged assault occurred at 3:15
P.M
. outside the chambers of Judge Jonathan Cheevers of the Fulton County family court. A security alarm was sounded, prompting police to flood the fifth floor of the Fulton County courthouse, subsequently drawing weapons on Manning, who held Landry in a headlock and “looked about to break her in half,” recounted bystander Leroy Dunst.
    “This tall lady here grabbed that skinny lady there,” he said, indicating Manning and Landry, respectively, “and went about trying to snap her like a chicken bone. Good the police got here, she mighta coulda done it.”
    Manning eventually released Landry amid a barrage of verbal threats, which prompted police into a further investigation of her behavior, said Officer Barkley Jefferson, the Atlanta Police Department’s public information officer. “We discovered some disturbing comments recently posted to Ms. Manning’s Facebook account,” he added. “I’m not authorized to divulge anything beyond that, except to say Ms. Manning is also under investigation by the FBI for terroristic threats.” Currently Manning is being held without bail at an undisclosed Fulton County correctional facility.
    My mother’s mug shot, included in later editions of the story, was wondrous. Somehow her makeup remained impeccable while her long hair, dyed a sunkissed gold that almost perfectly matched the hair of her youth (and my own natural color), must have been knocked out of its updo. The result was an unexpected glamorous cascade that fell far below the frame of her inmate placard. Her large green eyes sparkled with a mirth I knew meant trouble, and her