FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. -- A wife's rant sticking up for her husband has become the latest viral message on the Internet.
When the Fairfax County, Va., school system's chief operating officer, Dean Tistadt, didn't call off school last Thursday despite there being snow on the ground, Lake Braddock Secondary School student Dave Kori called his home to ask why.
Kori got a response from Tistadt's wife on his answering machine. He recorded it and posted it on YouTube.com.
"This is Candy Tistadt, Dean Tistadt's wife. This message is for Dave Kori," the message started. "How dare you call us at home. If you've got a problem going to school, you do not call somebody's house and complain about it. My husband was up at 4 this morning, trying to decide the best thing to do to send you to school, on a day when the weatherman is calling for one thing and another thing happens.
"You don't begin to know what you're talking about," Candy Tistadt continued. "And don't you ever call here again. My husband has been at the office since 6:30 this morning. So don't you even suggest that he purposely didn't answer his phone. He is out almost every single night of the week at meetings with snotty-nosed little brats and he may not have called you, but it's not because he's home because it snowed.
"Get over it, kid, and go to school. Get an education, that's what you're there for."
Tistadt's number was public, and the family received several dozen more phone calls. The recording of the answering machine message received more than 9,000 hits on YouTube.
"My wife gets very defensive over what she perceives to be the vilification of me," Dean Tistadt said in a statement. "She takes it very personally."
Kori was called into the principal's office to explain, but he said he was not punished.
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