Posted on 03/19/2020 5:18:25 PM PDT by skimbell
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I cried out and Dad jumped up, scared and angry, and blurted out something like "WTH are you doing?" End of "helping" me with the model.
I don't think I even got a shock other than the shock of the flash, the noise, the light going out and Dad yelling at me. LOL
My wife had a stroke and has heart failure. These are the fireman that came to her rescue. My wife worked in home health and hospice for 35 years.
We have enough masks for health, boat works on hold. A month or two and there will be a supply flow again.
LOL
Well, you learned something valuable about a powerful and important force, didn’t you?
When I stuck my finger in the socket I was alone, and didn’t require any reinforcement from elders to teach me that to do so was probably a Bad Idea.
:-)
Lol! It felt like that. I remember getting to school completely soaked during rainstorms. Plus I sometimes had holes in my shoes. I had no umbrella, and our parents didn't drive us to school unlike kids today. Millennials are such snowflakes.
Millennial here, not panicking. Just more angry over all this. Yes, the ChiComVirus or what every you want to call it is a serious issue that needs to be addressed the government mandated shutdowns of a huge part of the economy make me angry.
I remember the 2009-2010 Swine flu the ChiComs gave us and nothing closed, life went on, and no reports of full ICUs that I remember.
I have see more Gen X types be the ones throwing tantrums on FB or Twitter over this, whining how they saw a small group of people playing basketball in a park and demanding the gov do more to stop this.
The wolf is here, and nobody gives a shit. Thanks for the decades of fun, panic-mongers. Y’all now have blood on your hands.
I’ve lived through 58 years 11 months and 19 days of marriage. Not much scares me.
The shutdowns are premature. As far as I know, no state yet has a supermajority (say, 3/4) of counties with community spread. I could be wrong about the smaller ones, but not about the bigger ones!
Wu Flu got nothing on dat!
I used to walk to school for a little over a half-mile. Sometimes it was really cold (I hated that); and one day the air and wind were so wonderful and strange that I thought I was on Eleanor Cameron’s ‘Mushroom Planet’, which I’d been reading.
And I recall walking home one day, when the snow on the trees had been hit later by an ice storm, and everything was glittering like diamonds.
But one day, a dog followed me all the way to school, trying to get my lunch, which he smelled in my bag. He got it all - I’ve been a sucker for animals all of my life.
(I think I may have salvaged an apple for lunch that day, though...)
I feel kind of sorry for kids who don’t have to walk to school anymore - or whose parents are rightly afraid, these days, to allow them to do so. They are missing out on a lot of before- and after-school wonder.)
Yes! Fooling around and not paying attention while Dad was "helping" me with something was a bad bad idea. Boy was his voice scary when I was a kid. :P
“Scary Voice’ is part of what men are designed for :-)
Back in the early 1970s, the earth was suppose to have run out of fossil fuel in 30 years. It’s almost 50 years later & we still are using fossil fuel.
Agree. I lived in the city, and had to walk a mile to school. In the old days, there was a lot of shops and activity along the way. Two blocks away from home was a broom factory, always had these large barn-style doors open so I could glance inside and watch people at machines. Three blocks away was a bakery, with the fresh smell of donuts being baked. Then a park to walk through, and various mom-&-pop stores along the way. The daily journey was fun.
“Panic. Everyone keeps using that word.
The only example I’ve seen of it were those two pavement idiots fighting over toilet paper two weeks ago.
We haven’t begun to see panic.”
Yep. You know we live in a soft society when people think THIS is panic.
You all are talking about the nuclear threat.
My mother really lived that way in WWII. Actual air raid drills and painted things and dark shades to pull down for said air raids, where you better not crack open the shade to peek....she managed to do that.
You bet it was. I remember the survivors—kids and adults.
I think panic is demonstrated by our politicians who order these procedures, Nd the people who are now off the streets panicked by them into thinking they must all stay home or else...doomage for all!
I don’t see the panic, but I know about it. The panicked ones are shacked up at home and not out in the open.
Ditto. I believe most of this panic is the failure of one to deal with mortality. Largely the same reason you see all the gym freaks. They fear death, some cowardly.
Not knowing Christ leads many to irrational behavior.
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