We could walk home in kinder, parent discretion. Lots of kids had older sibs or just older neighborhood kids who were charged with that duty. And Mrs. Eubanks was always out on her porch on the corner at dismissal times. She bandaged many a skinned knee broke, broke up spats. And we thought she was MEAN. She was just no nonsense.
There are a lot of young kids around here fairly unsupervised. I'm sure the presence of the Y draws some, but the Y also fills an existing need. Now some of them, there's a clear bit of parenting-issues going on, but others remind me very much of us when we were little.
We could walk home in kinder, parent discretion. Lots of kids had older sibs or just older neighborhood kids who were charged with that duty.
Yeah, I always walked with Charlie, when he was really little, but at lunchtime I was too cool to wait for my dawdling little brother, so he was usually ten minutes behind me.
School was generally too far away to walk to when I was a kid, but my parents never seemed to worry about me wandering around our trailer-parkish neighborhood or the adjoining woods when I was a gradeschooler. Which makes me wonder if my mom grew into more of a worrywort in later years.
My Avengers DVD shipped today, going from Sterling VA to Laurel MD, where it is now. Now of course I understand carrier routes, but still I'm thinking, I could have
driven
to Sterling and picked the darn thing up.
Also, my BFF's DVD, which I ordered for her a week ago, arrived today. Mine was preordered in June!
jonesing for Avengery goodness
I just saw Romney's talk about his wife and the windows in the plane...
I don't know what to say. It didn't look like he was joking.
My Avengers DVD shipped today
Mine, too. And while it's guaranteed to be delivered tomorrow, I have a meeting after work that goes until 9 or possibly even 10, and I can't get out of it. Damn it.
I was considering calling out sick so I could watch it as soon as I got it. Then I decided to be a groan-up.
Then I decided to be a groan-up.
This may be a typo but I lurves it.
We need a new word for autocorrectos. Like thinkos, but with predictive text. It amuses me, because Buffista grammar has declined with the advent of smartphones, because I've seen errors made I know were not the result of a Buffista mind.
Our town was 5 miles by 5 miles, and we had the run of it. When I was super little I couldn't go into the woods by myself, which still left me a good ten acres to wander just on our land alone. But once I was older, I walked all over the town, with or without friends.
I was considering calling out sick so I could watch it as soon as I got it.
I would do this, except for how I had the DVD shipped to my work. Last week of the quarter. Annual review in process. Must go to the office.
