Posted on 05/25/2006 7:41:36 AM PDT by the Real fifi
It’s the time of year when long-suffering tuition-poor parents get primped up and drive countless miles to stew in summer’s heat, sitting on excruciatingly uncomfortable folding wooden seats on damp fields, gnats biting at their ankles and ears. They do this for one reason: to see their offspring get their long-hoped-for diplomas.
(After which the detritus collected over four or more years gets piled into the car with the offspring and returned home.)
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That's been happening for a long time unfortunately. I got a political speech after graduating from high school, undergraduate and graduate school.
Bump!
I got to sit in the hot Colorado sun and listen to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, a Democrat, tell the graduates how priviledged they are to be college graduates (though this was a junior college) and to make a difference in the lives of the poor, etc. etc. The usual stuff. I was actually rather surprised that this guy wasn't more political. It wasn't disrespectful at all, as a matter of fact.
I wonder if that had anything to do with the fact that this school has a gunsmithing program?
Anyway, we all got a sunburn out of it.
HEH!!Of course all the stuff the kids bring home with them will sit in your attic or basement. You will be forbidden to throw it out. Then they will move into an ultra modern abode with no room for it, leaving you with a mountain of untouchable junk to store.
Some people find they can dispose of it only by selling their homes.
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