(She'll be fine, right?)
Your neighborhood is pretty safe for a Pirate's Booty run.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Steph L. - Sep 24, 2012 11:29:46 am PDT #23301 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jesse - Sep 24, 2012 11:46:41 am PDT #23302 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Go Casper! (Go flea!)
Zenkitty - Sep 24, 2012 11:47:19 am PDT #23303 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
And, she's back. Gone 7 minutes, very proud of herself.
Well done!
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2012 11:48:06 am PDT #23304 of 30001
brillig
And the weather radar shows snow flurries in the higher mountains. Yup.
Ginger - Sep 24, 2012 12:10:49 pm PDT #23305 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If she were going for real pirates' booty and not snack food, I might worry.
How times have changed. I walked four blocks by myself to buy comic books and penny candy when I was 8, and I don't think my mother gave it a second thought. That fact that it really was penny candy gives this post a distinctly archaic air.
Cass - Sep 24, 2012 12:20:39 pm PDT #23306 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And, she's back. Gone 7 minutes, very proud of herself.
Excellent job, Casper!
le nubian - Sep 24, 2012 12:28:16 pm PDT #23307 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
And, she's back. Gone 7 minutes, very proud of herself.
So, do you like live over a Whole Foods? I'm not sure where I could go in 7 minutes, but I sure couldn't complete a WF transaction.
flea - Sep 24, 2012 12:29:04 pm PDT #23308 of 30001
information libertarian
I walked to the corner store with a $20 bill myself, at age 8, and lost it somehow along the way. I was devastated (my mother was actually quite understanding; I must have been a hard kid to discipline, because I self-punished so well.) On the plus side, I can now send her to run errands at WF (although it's tricky - how do you ask for a dozen eggs, not the omega-3 fortified or the free-range, just the straight local ones). On the negative side, she may take it into her head to go buy snacks all the time now.
One issue with kids' independence these days is it's so hard to safely walk in a lot of places. We live in an affluent, in-city, "walkable" neighborhood, and there are BIG streets with poorly-sited crosswalks, places with sidewalks that just die, places with no sidewalks...
flea - Sep 24, 2012 12:30:49 pm PDT #23309 of 30001
information libertarian
We live on a dead-end street. At the end of the street, you cross train tracks, go down a small hill, and you're in the WF parking lot. Perhaps she was very clever and hit the "10 items or fewer" line?
Consuela - Sep 24, 2012 12:30:54 pm PDT #23310 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
How times have changed
Indeed. Range free, kids! Develop problem-solving skills and resilience!
When I was Casper's age my mother forgot to pick me up at CCD (after-school program for the Catholic kids). So I walked the half-mile to the center of town from the church and called home on the public phone in the little market. (I wonder if I had to borrow a dime? I doubt I would have been brave enough to ask whoever was working there, I was very shy.)
Nowadays I suspect I wouldn't have been allowed to leave the church at all without someone approved to pick me up.