why do you guys keep banning me? (Zot! Because we can) (Juwish modz totally rewl!)

self

[Darkchylde]

That's okay. I'd probably drive you crazy anyway...
oh, yeah you wouldn't be here if you weren't already.

;-)

I have no relatives who would do that
to my parents or that could handle
me being around OR that I could
handle being around for too long.

My dad works on elevators. I'd
only get in the way, not to mention
he works on elevators in some pretty
terrible towns. He'd never take me
with him, I could get hurt.

I'd never bother just leaving.
Besides, there's no place to
go to once I'm gone.

College courses/work online.
Mom doesn't trust things like
that.... I use that mom word a lot...

My mom was never allowed to have a job & didn't get her
license till she was married to my dad. She was her parents
favorite & they wouldn't let her go. I'm not saying I'm my
parents favorite, but those things are happening again.
Although mom wouldn't see it that way. She'd be really hurt
& angry if she was compared to her mom 'cause hers had
some major mental problems.

[Darkchylde]

I have 2 brothers. They're both loony. You also never want to speak to them
together. With 'sheare & I, it's not too bad, but get them together & it's mayhem.

[BJungNan]

bttt

[tuliptree76]

LOL! I knew you had at least 2 brothers - I read the peeing on an electric fence posts. I didn't know if you had any more siblings.

[Darkchylde]

'Cause I've already gone to classes & mom insists I can't
go back. I have no way of getting myself anywhere. There
are places near me, it's a matter of getting there. I can't.

I use that a lot... "I can't"... maybe that's why she calls me helpless.

[NicknamedBob]

Near as I can tell, the Star Trek Transporter device is more impossible than time travel.

Unless they actually used the Holodeck, with an avatar on the planet's surface, scanning and duplicating the appearances on the holodeck, and the crewman's appearance on the planet.

Big safety advantage! No poisonous plants, holes in the ground, or subtle poisons which only act on individuals wearing red shirts.

Geordi LaForge used one, connected through his "visor" but he still got hallucinations.

[Darkchylde]

It started off as a haiku theoretically, but what I
wanted to say didn't fit into a haiku form of any kind.

[tuliptree76]

LOL! Some day I at least want to go to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas.

[Darkchylde]

I've seen that posted somewhere else... Dragonfly's Lair?

[Darkchylde]

Alas! I am but a loonly.. um, lonely girl! Who will
rescue me from the fierce Animal & Gweedo? (my
brothers decided that's what they'd be after I was born)

[tuliptree76]

I have no way of getting myself anywhere. There are places near me, it's a matter of getting there. I can't.

Hopefully this will change in the near future.

[tuliptree76]

Animal & Gweedo

LOL! Which one was Darks?

[Darkchylde]

Only if my brother does something. A friend died not too
long before my 16th birthday. Mom didn't want me driving.
Eventually I got the manual, it had contradictions it that sent
my head spinning. So I quit reading it. Mom said I couldn't
drive till I read it. Then she had a car she didn't want me to
drive 'cause there was always something wrong with it. I
lost the manual, couldn't get my license till I found it & read
it. I found it & they put my brother on their insurance. So
now I have to wait till he gets a job & gets himself off. That's
been the current reason for at least a year now.

[Fedora]

Yeah, haiku is a kind of restrictive form if you have a story in mind. I find it hard to work a story into any less lines than you have there. I like the story.

[tuliptree76]

they put my brother on their insurance

I'm trying to keep the story straight. Which brother? LOL!

[Darkchylde]

Mom thinks he was Gweedo, 'cause she thinks my "other"
brother made the comment "I'll be Animal, you be Gweedo".
She said her first thought was that I'd never have a date till
I was 40. Maybe she was right. I haven't been on a date yet.

[Darkchylde]

Gweedo! ('sheare) I always call my other brother my "other" brother.

[tuliptree76]

I haven't been on a date yet.

You have plenty of time. You're still young. I wasn't asked out on a date until after I finished my undergrad degree...and even now I don't date much. (We can start counting the months it's been since I've been on a date. *sigh*) I have so many guy friends - but they all think of me as "one of the guys." In a way, it's nice to just hang out with them. But at the same time it would be nice to have someone NOT think of me as just a "buddy."

[NicknamedBob]

Take the tests for GED if you want to, otherwise, forget it.

Go straight to college. Find a Community College that offers courses near you and take some classes. Doesn't matter what.

Once you're a college student, who cares if you have a High-School Diploma?

When my wife and I were first married, a couple-friend had a young girl who stayed with them to help with the couple's young children. The current word for this seems to be "Au pair."

We called her Cathy. As in, "We really ought to get ourselves a Cathy." She played with the children, helped with meals, relieved the mother of much tedium as well as boredom. She also learned a lot for herself about kids and the responsibilities of adulthood.

Eventually, we got us a Cathy, only her name was Christine, and she ended up marrying my wife's brother. But she did for us what Cathy had been doing, and everybody involved has turned out better for all of it.

I'm inclined to think it should be a National Program.

People who get stuck in institutions, even though they shouldn't be, learn to behave like the others. It isn't healthy. Learned dependency. They can even forget how to tie shoelaces.

Some Volunteer Healthwatch agencies call around to elderly and invalid people living at home, on a daily basis. This serves to make sure the people are getting their medicines and such, and that they are not in trouble.

I'm sure they could use help with the program. It might even offer some reimbursement. Eventually, you might be able to help with the transportation vans which deliver these same people to medical appointments.

If you made yourself available to them, I am sure that they would in turn, assist you in getting certificates, drivers license, study materials, and so forth.

If you are interested in helping others, and willing to do so, it becomes much easier to find the things you need as well.

[tuliptree76]

LOL! It's clearer now. :-)