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shawluvsbirds said:
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The first fish I ever caught as a little girl was a carp. I was so sad when my dad threw it up on the bank to die!

When I was a kid school never called out for snow. Older more experienced bus drivers back then. Now the school is too scared of lawsuits so they call off a lot.


Same here! What's up with that!
I bought me an Amish gas stove that don't need electricity so if the power is out I can still cook.
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1934 Garland gas stove here...also non electric.

Fields Mountain Farm said:
Yep, power goes out here and we're good! Any food in the fridge can go out in the snow and keep just fine. Got lanterns and even got a set up on the back wood stove to heat water for baths n dishes! Let it snow! :lau
Only problem we haven't solved is wifi!:lau
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Hotspot on my cell phone...

Alaskan said:
Son #3 was saying how he would be happy to have new undergarments...

He said the boxers I bought are made of such thin material that all you have to do is walk across the room and the back rips wide open, which doesn't really matter since there are so many holes in the front that they are really just a "suggestion" of underwear.

He said he didn't like the short boxer briefs that I had bought him....because his, achem, "junk" dangles further down than there is fabric. He says that this also defeats the purpose of underwear.

He says that there are still a few pairs of boxer briefs that cover all parts, but they bunch up between his legs and chafe.

He said it would be nice to own underwear that actually covered all parts and did not chafe.

He then told me about the page in the Duluth Trading Co. Catalog where they were selling the perfect pair of boxer briefs, for over $23 EACH!!


I almost ran off the road. I laughed so hard.

I told the child that commando was the only way to go, and that I had NEVER owned a pair of underwear that cost that much.

He said he couldn't go commando.. the inside of carhartts were too rough.

I said fine, make yourself a kilt and go commando.

He said that he is disinclined to follow my suggestion.
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Are you and Sour and Spookwriter related? I love your stories and your writing style is so similar. I miss Spook...

BYC910 said:
She has to fall this time but you have to cushion the blow. Low self esteem is hard to over come . Even harder to help someone over come . Follow your heart use good judgment and remember this happened to her not you . You are involved no denying that . And hope that the shock and scare she got has taught her a valuable life lesson and she has learned from it . Other than that what can one do that will not add to misery . So here's my story . Alex my oldest and Oliver's dad was spoiled by every one . But because of his brother he didn't date until he graduated. Wasn't because he wasn't allowed it was because he was afraid how girls would take his brother . Our deal with him was help us with Ben and we will give you whatever you need and most of what you want . We bought him a truck and gave him money paid him for babysitting . He was allowed to go anywhere he wanted to go on the weekends .A lot of those he spent away from home with his cousins or with his friends . 90 days after he got his truck he went to spent the weekend with his friend that was in the ROTC with him . Alex was captain of the rifle team . At 3 AM the phone rang and DW was talking loud woke me from a sound sleep . All I heard was he totaled his truck and is he alright . I jumped up started dressing and saying he totaled his truck at 3 AM I'm going to kill him . Took the phone chewed out his friend because I just knew he had somehow caused this . Bear in mind that these weren't my exact words they are a lot less spicy :lau Off we go He and the county police are at the scene of the wreck . DW and me get there at the same time as the state trooper . it's 4 then . And the story grows . He and his friend had gone to his friends girl friends house and snuck her and her two cousins out of the window and brought them to his friends grand parents house to party . State law he wasn't supposed to be on the road after midnight and was allowed only one under age passenger without an adult in the car . So all was well till 2 AM at which time the girls needed to go home . They all load up and head out and two miles down a country road he centers a electric pole . Cuts it down goes right through it . it hit he cab over the driver side . rolls off and twenty feet past it they stop and none of them hurt bad . they get out he locks his phone in the truck with engine running and it's cold enough to frost . And they story grows . His friend runs back to his grandparents house and gets another friend calls me and then the two of them take the girls home and sneak them back in the window :barnie. And gets back to the wreck the same time as me . I stopped the trooper from questioning my boy until I had a chance to talk to him . He already knew I was not at all happy about this . And the story grows . Right after the boys snuck the girls back in the window one of them had a hurt ankle and started crying and the other got mom and dad up and they took them to the hospital. After the accident report was finished The state trooper went to the hospital and we followed . With a very sad tearful seventeen year old. He finished the story on the way . His friend tried to talk him into reporting his truck stolen in the morning and say the girls weren't even there . He said dad I called you as soon as it happened . He did I had left my phone in the truck . He had to face the parents of the girls and apologize . When he saw the girl in the emergency room he cried and aid I could have killed somebody . it was just a sprained ankle . He made so angry and so proud the same night I was almost lost as to how to punish him . So I went easy on him he had lost his truck and a friend because he wasn't allowed to ever go to his house again . He was scared to drive but Monday morning I made him drive my daully to school . He friend laughed at him and about the wreck but he had lost nothing and that hurt my sons feelings . And because having a brother like Ben is so hard on his siblings . I let him stew for a few days and then told him that he had just made a mistake and how prod I was because he didn't listen to his friend and make it worse . I also told him that when we settled the insurance I would get him another truck . I looked until I found the exact truck two years newer and just before Christmas I loaded them up and wouldn't say where we were going and drove them to the ford dealer . He and Ben both saw the truck at the same time and Ben ran to the truck opened the door and got in the back seat . Alex said Dad My truck it's my truck . Was I wrong I don't think so. I just got the truck back he drove it for almost twelve years and other than a bunch of miles and a few dings from being used as a work truck . It's all good . Never once have I had to get him out of jail he has never been arrested nor even had a traffic ticket . From the time he was little I would tell him daddy can't fix it if you don't tell me what's wrong . It's progressive My kids didn't have it as hard as I did and his kids won't have it as hard as he did . The girl and college story I'll tell latter :lau
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You are blessed...you've done right and passed the best values on to your young'ns.

LittleLakePhil said:
Where you are right.... There were sickos when I grew up too.... Some of the problem these days are the way we coddle our kids.
Like i say some of the problem.... We don't want to expose our kids to danger.... But at the same time these days we can't even allow them to scrape their knees..... We will raise kids that can't function in the real world.
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Exactly. I think you'd have to gather up a dozen millenials (not our kids, of course) to have enough life skills to match one of the generation born the first half of the 20th century at the same age.

LittleLakePhil said:
I finally caught up....I realize what nice people you are...I would kill my kids if they did some of the stuff you all had to deal with.... Honestly I didn't deserve such good kids....I pray everything works out for you all.
Like a said shawluvsbirds let her she know you are angry but don't go overboard.... But you are a injured party here too....I gsve all my kids cars when they were old enough to drive.... That's more than my parents ever did. But all my kids were working by they age....I made sure that had better cars than me.... Because my daughter is the only one who has a clue as to how to work on a car.
I think it's getting harder for kids to get work anymore.... Here because of rules in the AHCA they can't get enough hours to justify driving 30 miles to town....a 4 hour shift doesn't hardly cover gas after taxes.
When I was a kid I worked Pretty much full time.... One year I was working night shift.... Now that's. Not even legal.
Not sure if that's for the better or not.
I think all my exposer to the job market when I was younger gave me a good work ethic.
But I got my first real job when I was probably 14..... Think I was 12 when I got my paper route.
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Phil, being remote is definitely hard on teens. I had no issues, I took a job on a neighboring farm.
 

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