I'm not a parent, but I think the first and third things are just true. The middle point seems debatable to me.
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Jesse - Oct 29, 2008 12:09:12 pm PDT #7266 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Oct 29, 2008 12:09:58 pm PDT #7267 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I now own a big orange cat named Jake. Name change pending.
The people were very nice, and very sad to leave their cat. The wife had developed allergies and couldn't handle living with the cat anymore.
sarameg - Oct 29, 2008 12:13:08 pm PDT #7268 of 10001
Yay, Sue! I'm glad the whole thing didn't end up as dramatic as it sounded like it could be...
Jesse'll tell you big orange boycats are great.
megan walker - Oct 29, 2008 12:16:13 pm PDT #7269 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm not a parent, but I think the first and third things are just true. The middle point seems debatable to me.
Well, three, sure. But there's no inherent reason that you couldn't read a pile of magazines on a flight just because you have kids. And the middle point is really what sets the whole tone of his point. But, then again, I have a pet peeve about people that seem to think that once you have kids you can't travel, or it becomes one long chore.
Kathy A - Oct 29, 2008 12:16:46 pm PDT #7270 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Marmalade kitteh!! They look so cool. Yay for ex-Jake and Sue!
I had to drag Amarna off of her perch to take her to the vet yesterday morning, and when I passed by her condo this morning to turn off the heater (too warm today!), she got skittish, obviously thinking I was going to try and do it again, jumped down and hid under the computer desk. She hates being stuffed into the carrier and taken anywhere, even just to the vet for a claw trimming.
Burrell - Oct 29, 2008 12:16:50 pm PDT #7271 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
make me think he thinks a lot of things about being a parent are a chore.
many things about being a parent *are* a chore, then again so are many things about being an adult.
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2008 12:19:49 pm PDT #7272 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yay for big orange kitty Jake! But just think - if you keep the name Jake, you could make him wear tiny sunglasses and take pictures....
lisah - Oct 29, 2008 12:26:57 pm PDT #7273 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
tommyrot - Oct 29, 2008 12:28:14 pm PDT #7274 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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He totally has the expression, "Don't even think of moving me."
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2008 12:29:20 pm PDT #7275 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
But there's no inherent reason that you couldn't read a pile of magazines on a flight just because you have kids.
Once they get to a certain age, sure.
Under 10? Good luck.