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In My Days ...

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Th...

Things My Mother Taught Me...

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A  JOB WELL DONE  . "If you're going to kill each other, do  it outside.. I just finished cleaning."  My mother taught me RELIGION . "You better pray that will come out of the carpet.."  My mother taught me about TIME  TRAVEL . "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock  you into the middle of next week!"  My mother taught me LOGIC . "  Because I said so, that's why."    My mother taught me MORE LOGIC  . "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going  to the store with me.."  My  mother taught me FORESIGHT . "Make sure you wear clean  underwear, in case you're in an accident."    My mother taught me IRONY . "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about." My Mother taught me about the  science of OSMOSIS  .  "Shut your mouth and eat your  supper."  M...