Posted on 05/08/2010 7:40:36 AM PDT by RubberPig
Edited on 05/08/2010 7:55:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
She's a sweet kid and folks sometimes impose on her. But she had a great time waiting tables and chatting up all the guests.
Ruby is my leggy dog - she looks like her mom may have gotten out with a greyhound. She’s been trained to keep her head BELOW table level (it gets rapped with a spoon or whatever’s handy if it gets up on the table) but she has this darned prehensile tongue that seems to be about a foot long . . . you’re just minding your own business and this Tongue of Doom slithers over the edge of the table and into your plate . . . . eeek!
I'm a WSI and Lifeguard (Red Cross and BSA) - but if I stop swimming I sink. It all depends on things like muscle mass, bone density, etc. Not as much on body fat as you would think (I was a sinker at 16 and I'm a sinker at 55, even though I weigh 30 pounds more). But some folks just float like corks, and others head straight for the bottom. If I cram my lungs full of air and keep my hands moving I can float, but just barely . . . but the Drownproofing thing still works for me.
No problem for my daughter, who has her BSA Lifesaving certificate and is an avid WW kayaker . . . but her roommate is from El Paso and had never learned to swim because apparently they have very little water there!
It's a pretty basic test, so they dragged her through it somehow without actually drowning her.
It just means that they are not “active” in their religion, specifically, LDS. Growing up, we learned early that there were Mormons and jack-Mormons, though both are Mormons. The difference being that the jack-Mormons, while not obeying the Commandments and the Word of Wisdom, were still Mormons.
That’s not to say they were always that way. Some lapsed as teens or adults, and some didn’t have the exposure to the teachings as tots.
TC was spot-on when she said it coincided with lapsed Catholics, etc.
Mormons are people. People are not perfect. Agreeing to “serve” does not necessarily mean that the follow trough will be any more perfect than the person serving.
Each of the girls had a choice: to agree to serve and honor the agreement, or agree to choose and dishonor the agreement. Religion specifics have nothing to do with it. I’m sure none of them said, “She’s Catholic, so we’ll let her do the work.”
Most likely, they are irresponsible in all aspects of their lives. Thank your daughter for me for being true to her word. We need more people like her in the world.
Even as skinny as I was growing up, and even as an adult, I had to fight to get to the bottom of the pool, even in water only 4’ deep. I gave up trying in my 30’s and became content that if I died in the water, I would be found easily.
She was pretty hacked off when she came home with sore feet and no dinner because she didn't have time to eat anything. She said the little chamber group they had playing was good though.
But yesterday afternoon we had an invigorating 6 mile hike with a doggy friend -- us, her and four dogs (two of hers, two of ours). And daughter's feet didn't hurt because she had her good hiking boots and Thorlo socks instead of her good Sunday shoes . . . . and the dogs had a splendid time because there was Lots of Water and Mud and at the end of the hike a quarry with a Large Deep Pool. The trail basically wound back and forth across a creek that ran out of the quarry. You could see my young Black Lab's nose go up every time she scented water, then you saw a disappearing Lab stern with frantically wagging tail, then you heard a BIG SPLASH. It was pretty funny when she launched off the quarry wall -- enormous splash and she went completely underwater. It didn't seem to faze her a bit.
I’ve actually floated in the Great Salt Lake, before they banned people from going in. (I heard.) Of course, only brine shrimp can survive in the water, so why anyone sane would want to do it is beyond me. When I did it, I was 15! :o]
I floated in the Great Lake too, weird experience. Why did they ban swimming?
Ummm...sit down...hang onto something solid...
Ts-DAH!: It’s too salty!
Remember when you got out of the water, your body was white all over with crusted salt? You couldn’t sink no matter what.
The lake levels fluctuate with the spring run-off, so if there was a lot of snow pack, the water will be less salty. However, in dry years, when the lake shrinks, the salt content is way up.
I guess they consider that pollution of sorts, so to avoid any problems, they just banned swimming. Kinda makes me wonder what they ever did with Saltair, the resort on the south end of the lake.
Might want to be careful with that phrase. Means something VERY different in the U.K.
Oh crud. The work e-mail came in and there is a LOT of it!
Yeah, we had one or two in our class who had to take the class again. I think fear was the major issue.
Our Pat is petrified about swimming. The only thing that encourages me is remembering that Bill was the same way when he was a little Cub, and now he’s a trained lifeguard.
Ohno!
Not owrk! PLEH!!
I had a school friend from 5th grade to 7th grade, and she was deathly afraid of water. So afraid in fact that just being in more than a foot of it would trigger an epileptic seizure.
The main thing is to keep them calm and reassure them. Jeez. I’m sorry Patrick. Just go at your own pace. *HUG*
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