Life lessons...

[Sonoran Silkies]

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ROTFL!!!

 

[isadream]

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Wow you guys are making me think hubby is a genius!!! I finally taught him how to pay at the pump and he can do it on his own now!! I am SOOO proud!

 

[agnes_day]

my oldest is like this..the child breaks everything he touches it seems..the other day, he cut his hand open because he was sawing open batteries to get magnets out of them.

then he left he pieces all over the place.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Batteries have magnets?!

 

[agnes_day]

oops, i was wrong..he sliced apart 9 volt batteries to get to the smaller batteries contained within. still...why do that to good batteries?

 

[tammyd57]

My DH is 63. You wanna know how he balances a checkbook? He calls that 800 number on the back of his card! LMBO!
I gotta admit, though, he CAN use the card reader at the gas pump, but every now & then it asks for our zip code and that really messes him up. He's like "Does it want OUR zip code? Or the one here at the station, cuz I don't know that one............"

 

[Frosty]

When my son was about 11 he was playing with DH's torch (bad idea anyhow!) It has a spark igniter that when you push the button, it lights the torch. But it wasn't lighting like it was supposed to... do you see where this is going? He looked down the nozzle to see if there was a spark, and of course that time it lit. Did you know that a flame to your eye can fuse you upper and lower eyelashes together? Glad his eye was ok! And DH put the end of his finger into the table saw and tore it up a bit. He went to the hospital, and didn't want to 'admit that he was stupid'. So he told them that the tiller blade came around when he was untangling something from it

Gee, honey, that sounds much better!

 

[Me & My Peeps]

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I dont think that it's parents forgetting to teach things or presuming it's being taught in school. It's just that we live in such a different society today then even the last generation. Information access is instant, instant food, instant gratification. There's not much left to think about. Once people moved away from the farms, there has been a gradual decline in self sufficiency. Common sense is lacking/missing in most people today and they also refuse to accept responsibility for their actions.

The older people notice it more I think because there is such a contrast in lifestyles. For example, I can remember as a kid ONLY having cartoon on Saturday morning! and they were GOOD cartoons!! Bugs Bunny, Foghorn Leghorn Road Runner....now they have a few channels that show cartoons 24/7. Ever watch them? Their stupid!! Kids dont go outside much, computers, tv and video games took care of that. All that time that's spent on THAT, before was spent on life skills, like :work, interaction with people, learning motor skills, Job skills, simple problem solving etc. Now kids are into their mid 20's before they have the life skills that we had at 16-18 and SOME never get them.



Regarding the "Teaching Husbands tricks" part..................I readily admit that I would be a complete mess and crawl up into the fetal position, without my wife. I know this, because she tells me all the time.

 

[Mom 2em All]

wait..wait..your husbands can see the numbers ??
My husband is 50- and you should see how mad he gets at his cell phone. Granted, I made him have a cell phone. And I had to go to the phone store and say, "NO NOPE NOPE he doesnt want email, texting, nothing but BIG FAR-SPACED buttons and WORDS that say TALK..no fancy internet connections, nothing. CAVEMAN phone." Even now, he hangs up on me regularly when I call and I get to hear how "I hate this phone!!! It hangs up when I try to answer it all the time" (never does it for me.

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I tried to teach him to "pay at the pump" but he says he cant see the numbers to put them in. ????????????

Once I was very sick and gave him the ATM card to go get cash out for whatever he needed at the time. When he came home he told me that it took him four or five tries. He wanted FIFTY out. "Honey, you cant get fifty. It has to be sixty or forty".."I know that now". I said, "Where is the card?" He looked at me blankly!!!!!!!
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"It didnt give it back to me"...

I cant tell you how fast I left and drove up to the machine, the whole time cussing him in my head and hoping that nobody else had gone to the machine after him.

Card was right where it was supposed to be- half out of the slot.

 

[Melissa034]

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millions of men and boys are cutting open batteries now just to see whats in them