There is, of course, an age when leaving kids in the car makes sense. I spent a lot of my mom's grocery store runs in the car with a library book.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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beth b - Mar 17, 2006 10:34:54 am PST #4144 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Katerina Bee - Mar 17, 2006 10:35:23 am PST #4145 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
I always used to think I would be a terrible parent. These days, I think that at my worst, most impatient, broke and crankiest, I would still be a far better parent than a frightening percentage of people who have kids. Too bad it's unlikely that Hansel and Gretel will show up at my door so I could treat them better than their family did.
My heritage is all central European: there's mostly Czech, then Russian, and a lot of Polish. Interesting factoid: DH's father's family came from Budapest, and my mother's family hailed from Bratislava, which are not all that far apart. It's kinda cool that our old country roots are from the same neighborhood.
beth b - Mar 17, 2006 10:41:28 am PST #4146 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
so I am going to make shepard's pie in potato boats for the potato party a neighborhood friend has every year. I am guessing I am going to have a lot more filling than I need... I am guessing the filling will freeze well.
because for dinner tonight I am making Lemon butt chicken and for sunday a tofu spinach pie.
Spidra Webster - Mar 17, 2006 10:42:47 am PST #4147 of 10001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Lemon butt chicken? Now I'm going to be earwormed by "Bertha Butt Boogie"...
DavidS - Mar 17, 2006 10:46:37 am PST #4148 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lemon butt chicken? Now I'm going to be earwormed by "Bertha Butt Boogie"...
Personally I prefer Nutty's Onion Butt chicken.
And while I prefer The Jimmy Castor Bunch's "Trogdolyte", I'll always have a soft spot for "Bertha Butt Boogie."
Katerina Bee - Mar 17, 2006 11:04:05 am PST #4149 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
Mmmm, shepherd's pie. Costco had a good one, but alas: no more.
Calli - Mar 17, 2006 11:05:12 am PST #4150 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I quite like Boston Market's turkey pot pie.
brenda m - Mar 17, 2006 11:10:19 am PST #4151 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
vw called me before leaving for the doctor's (voicemail, I wasn't here) and sounded much better.
Toddson - Mar 17, 2006 11:23:01 am PST #4152 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Glad to hear our bug's doing better. Hope she continues to do well.
As to the babies in cars - a while ago in the area there was a court case of a man whose little girl (3? 5? quite young but not a baby) had been left strapped in their van, in the summer, and died. His claim that he'd asked one of the older children (of 12 or 13 total) to make sure the younger one was in the house didn't do much good. It seems that neighbors had repeatedly had to tell him that he'd left one of the kids in the car.
Cashmere - Mar 17, 2006 11:32:57 am PST #4153 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
There is, of course, an age when leaving kids in the car makes sense. I spent a lot of my mom's grocery store runs in the car with a library book.
DH actually spent time in the car in the summer (with the windows rolled down) in a car outside a bar that his father and grandfather liked to frequent on their summer vacation. His father would come outside every 15 minutes or so to give him a bottle of coke and a snack or candy and to check on him. Of course, this was 25 years ago and it was a very small town.