rant · moment 4 of 17
The Tarantula Science Fair Project
from 147 - Love Tim (with Kevin Tienken) · #147
3 min
Kevin recounts bringing a pet-store tarantula to his 8th grade science fair with no actual experiment, and Tim compares it to his daughter's failed orange-floating project, riffing on how science fairs reveal bad parenting.
- Tim brought a tarantula to his science fair instead of doing an actual experiment, and the teacher called him out for it.
- His only goal was to get to keep a spider for a week by lying to his mother that it was required for school.
- Tim's 9-year-old daughter did a science fair project that his family barely helped with because he had video games to play.
- Her project was just oranges in a plastic jug to test whether they float with the peel on, but the water was missing on display day.
- You can tell which parents should be in jail by looking at what their kids bring to the science fair.
- Poor kids show up with hand-written, frayed paper glued to unfinished oak tag while every other child has professionally done poster boards.
- Tim describes a crackhead kid's parents barely noticing his project while cooking rocks in the next room.