Ugh, flea, that's awkward. I see their point, but kids are allowed to be kids, especially in their own home. I can see making an effort not to run maybe early in the morning. But during the day, I don't think you owe them anything.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Stephanie - Feb 05, 2012 9:12:08 am PST #20409 of 30001
Trust my rage
brenda m - Feb 05, 2012 9:19:20 am PST #20410 of 30001
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
Also, he can talk to you, but I don't see any reason to subject your kids to that.
Ginger - Feb 05, 2012 9:19:40 am PST #20411 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
All the coverage of Superbowl snacks is making me want nachos or cheese dip or pizza. Something I don't have and don't need, anyway.
Stephanie - Feb 05, 2012 9:20:46 am PST #20412 of 30001
Trust my rage
Oh yeah, he totally does NOT need to talk to your kids.
DavidS - Feb 05, 2012 9:22:44 am PST #20413 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I remember the neighbor of my friend Karen complaining about the sounds of her kids laughing. This was in a neighboring house - not sharing walls or floor/ceiling.
"Gee, I'm so sorry my children's laughter is irritating you at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. I'll quell that immediately! Oh kids! Joy is off the menu today."
askye - Feb 05, 2012 9:25:14 am PST #20414 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I'm reading this to the sounds of the kids running upstairs. It's my landlady and her kids but even so I wouldn't complain about them running around on an afternoon.
Jesse - Feb 05, 2012 9:33:17 am PST #20415 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My parents' next-door neighbor had been out sometimes with the three-year-old at like 5 am, but they figured dad was doing a great favor to his pregnant wife (now no longer pregnant! amazing), so didn't mind.
flea - Feb 05, 2012 9:38:30 am PST #20416 of 30001
information libertarian
Yeah, we are frequently up at 6:30-7 on weekends (as well as during the week - actually, my idiot kids get up earlier on the weekends than during the week when they have to, grrr), and I feel guilty about that, but what can I do? So it was sort of disconcerting to get yelled at at noon.
le nubian - Feb 05, 2012 9:40:43 am PST #20417 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
see, kids laughing - that's beyond the pale.
but I am a loud laugher and my grandmother used to be teased for laughing. I cannot truck people being angry about laughing if it isn't AT someone.
go fuck yourselves anti-laughers.
as far as kids running around, I get it, but if you are in a multiple-family dwelling, you aren't in a monastery, you have to deal with other people.
Zenkitty - Feb 05, 2012 9:42:43 am PST #20418 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
le nubian, you are not crazy. The Tuareg are a nomadic people of the Sahara, for whom, I presume, the car was named.