Posted on 05/13/2005 5:31:52 AM PDT by Slip18
Friday, May 13, 2005
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Dodgeball Day!
Subbie Slip has given her whip, handcuffs and legcuffs to xs today.
The rest of the stuff is locked up in my drawer. I’m just letting all the new students know that we behave as if we were ladies and gentlemen in here. Those two words “as if” can get you an A if you make the subbie laugh.
Bad people like that just seem to show up everywhere-terrible. Perhaps if public hanging were brought back it would stop this kind of thing...
I am guessing this guy was bald, huh?
Instead, we have 28 patrol cars. in 2.2 square miles. In volvos. (well, they used to drive volvo's, anyway.)
There are several "enclaves", gated and otherwise in SA that supposedly keep out the bad and common folk-the main one is Alamo Heights-they had the worst problem with kids dealing drugs in the area even when I was in school-and I'll bet Robert remembers that, too since he grew up on that side of town. Out here in the middle of nowhere there was recently a huge sweep of meth labs by county and state law enforcement that netted some 20 people, many of them living in rental cabins on big ranches-they move out here and set up a lab out in the woods, thinking that no one will smell the s*** cooking when nothing could be further from the truth-out here, you notice every different smell because something burning unattended could turn into a forest fire in minutes. Crime knows no boundaries and criminals are no respecters of gates, enclaves or the socioeconomic level of an area they want to muscle into.
Life is risky, but it beats the alternative.
just don't be naive.
Of course-you can't put them into a plastic bubble, either-but, depending on their age, I wouldn't let them go to a mall or large movie theater complex in a shopping center-I never let mine do that until she was nearly 18-too many criminal elements hang out at places like that trying to entice kids.
Still, xs has a valid point - I had no idea that their had been gang activity there.
Gangs seem to target malls and movie theater complexes everywhere-what better place to gain access to your kids? Mine was also not allowed to the movies without a parent unless in a group to be dropped off and picked up by an adult-and no going into the video game parlors while waiting, either...
LOL, well there, we are ok. The kids think video game machines are lame, compared to their online games.
That's good-keeps them out of another potential bad place.
No work, no tv, too dangerous to go out on the streets for (in some cases several) weeks what with downed trees and power lines. No fridge, no oven (unless you have a gas stove), no FreeRepublic and you can only play so many games of Scrabble, everyone is all mushy-feel good about surviving, saying "hi" to neighbors they normally can't stand and the sound of rain on the roof, everyone looks better by candlelight--so, yeah.
see you later, i have to go GROCERY SHOPPING, rme!
OMG - He DEFINITELY has a death wish. We are no where near as anti-social as you guys, but coolbreeze would be a dead man if he did that to me.
I put bratwurst and sauerkraut in the crockpot a couple of hours ago - it wasn't necessary to do so because we weren't going anywhere - but coolbreeze has been trying to get all the drywall up in the attic and helping me do that kept Jax out from under his feet for awhile.
If I want that space usuable anytime soon, I'm going to be spending most of this coming week remembering how to mud and tape and finish drywall.......otherwise it will be at least this time next month before we can get someone in to do it for us.........besides, I've got better things to do with the $$$ it would cost us to pay someone to do it.
Omigod, you're kidding! You poor thing-he should be made to clean the kitchen after dinner for a month for doing something like that-I'd have him light the grill and I'd fix burgers and steaks with easy side dishes tonight to minimize the mess (and your stress). I'm sure everything will turn out great, but my sympathies are with you, just the same.
My hubby has committed such rash acts a time or two, but not since I threatened to have him hanged, drawn and quartered last year after he showed a neighbor and co-worker of his the master bath (he was remodeling and wanted ideas) while I was grocery shopping one Saturday-before leaving, I had emptied the clothes hamper onto the dressing area floor and separated the laundry into loads to carry downstairs to wash when I got home-and there it all was, right in the middle of the floor. Then he asked them to come to dinner! I was able to get out of the dinner by calling his wife, who understood my distress completely at the prospect of cooking an unplanned dinner for company when I'd just gotten back from the grocery store 20 miles away with provisions for two people only-we met them for dinner at a restaurant instead. After the riot act I read hubby for doing that, he never did it again.
You're right-it isn't like they have to got to the store to get the stuff, scurry to clean and pick up the house then cook something you are proud to serve company and clean up-and all on short notice because a husband didn't stop to think before he invited...
I hate to tape and float drywall-but I did some of it again when we built this house-there is a white fiber mesh that came onto the market a few years ago that is really easy to apply, sticks well and never folds or crumples when you smooth it to the mud with a knife-I still have nearly a full roll of it in the garage, but I know that doesn't help you...
You would not make it in my family.
Dinner guests can vary by 10 with no notice, at all.
if xs and I drop off line, it is because there is a mother of a storm going on.
Family isn't really company where I come from-if they drop in unannounced, they take pot luck and like it unless THEY want to make a trip to the grocery store for more food, and help cook it.
It isn't just the meat-you also would have to skimp on the portions of the side dishes as well-unthinkable to most women- we feel that it makes us look too cheap to provide an adequate meal for company-that is why such things are best planned ahead to allow for a trip to the grocery store, house cleaning, etc.
Uh oh-is it supposed to storm your way? It has looked threatening here all day, but nothing has happened-I am dropping off now, but that is because I've got to get ready to go to dinner-we are meeting that same co-worker of hubby's (they carpool to work) and his wife in awhile at a restaurant down the hill...
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