Posted on 11/18/2005 8:10:58 AM PST by Sonny M
Actually I'd say I agree with both responses.
The parents may not know about the pgymy status of animals. A much more important issue is the number of parents who set their kids up on the fences surrounding dangerous animals so that they can get a better look.
No, Abby should have slapped the woman in the head for being all about herself. No mention of what divorce means to the child, how much of a struggle it will be for her in the future and that she made a commitment to the man and the child she brought into the world.
What's the big deal?...Assuming they were married in a Church, she only made a solemn promise before God and the Church... -sarc
Respect your child ... ask a keeper
Well, she's married to a jerk. But I agree with you. She's married and has made a commitment and seems to be as selfish as her husband. I well understand her grief at not having more children, but she should take care of the one she has and understand that life does not always produce what we want out of it.
If Jim Robinson is okay with it, I would like to post these every day for feedback.
In the first example the parents can't read the placards in front of each cage or display?
I had a close friend, in his mid fifties and schooled in very rural North Carolina, who knew that mice are baby rats & blackbirds (aka starlings & grackles) are baby crows. I could not convince him otherwise.
OK... I will make sure to do this next time Im in the zoo with the kids. I think everytime I am withen earshot of a zoo keeper I will tell the kids that kitty kitty will grow up to be a real lion when he gets old, an Polar bears are white because they eat to much ice cream.
In the first case, the zookeeper should keep in mind that some folks may be misinformed, themselves. They think they "know" certain "facts" and pass them to their children. It's likely that when discussing other subjects with their own children, zookeepers unwittingly transmit their own set of false "facts" to them. The zookeeper should accept the foibles of fellow humans, and bite his tongue.
In the second case, it's astonishing how breezily the advice giver recommends divorce. Or not, if one is familiar with the pagan, Dear Abby.
The fact that she allows Andre to run her life says a lot about her as well. Tell him you are going to school, going to get a job or do whatever.
Of course we only hear the "victim" 's side in all of these letters.
Now, if somehow we could have the Dear Abby's get some input from Penthouse Forum letters then that would be fun to read.
I like to take mine to the gorilla exhibit and tell them that's what we used to look like - LOL.
I would probably have told the woman, "Perhaps you should have thought about that and discussed it before you married a man who was 20 years your senior."
Seriously, I see this a fair amount. "I'm still young and my old fogey husband doesn't want to/let me do (x)."
Try going to the Air and Space museum and hear parents give their kids wrong info there. As a space enthusiast I often want to jump in but don't. ;)
Sometimes though people are just not observant. Every display in any museum I have been in has had printed info nearby to explain what you are looking at. Though there was the time at the Saturn 5 building at the Kennedy Space Center when I heard a guy so dense I couldn't believe it. We had all just come from the theater where they had a great movie full of info about the Saturn 5 rocket and its magnificent history. Then the doors open and 100s of people stream out into the museum where a real Saturn 5 is on display. A little kid asks the father what this rocket did. The guy replied, "umm, I dunno." Brilliant!
Eh, I thought the advice about the animals was pretty sound. I've kept several types of (semi)exotic pets over the years and had to deal with some pretty amazing misconceptions from others about them.
I always do quite a bit of research about them since I like to give any pets I own the best lives possible. With most of the pets I had I could point others to the same sources and correct them, but for some reason the litter of hairless rats I raised from birth seemed to dumbfuzzle everyone :-)
What I never got was why some thought I was wantonly cruel for taking care of one that we figured out was blind. Near as we can tell, he was blind from birth and with only a little more attention than a normal rat, got along so well most ppl didn't realize he was blind until told. His ears, nose, whiskers, and seemingly keen memory made up for his eyes. He'd feel his way around a new cage once or twice, then navigate it flawlessly from then on.
He was actually one of my favorites, all told, since he was one of the sweetest and most trusting. He had the personality commonly regarded as "perfect" for a male pet rat. He led a very spoiled life and made a superb ambassador of ratkind...well, except to that poor JW, but that's another story :-)
or on the pages of the New York Times or TV News shows or the floor of congress.
"A much more important issue is the number of parents who set their kids up on the fences surrounding dangerous animals so that they can get a better look."
I just call that pro-active survival of the fittest.
(yes, sarcasm)
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