Oh, and the snake thing is cool! She turned on the light first, then opened the door and headed out. I notice the doors were latch-style handles, though. Bet snakey would've been stymied by turn knobs. (Right? Yeah. Gosh, that snake was huge.)
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Zenkitty - Jun 18, 2013 6:54:37 pm PDT #26327 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Strix - Jun 18, 2013 6:56:53 pm PDT #26328 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
As a freshman in college, I was changing clothes in a new friends room, borrowing an outfit. I was in mismatched but cute lingerie, and she said, with utter horror, "Your mom LETS you wear mismatched underwear?"
I was all "My MOTHER doesn't worry about my underwear for me or buy most of it for me" since I was having sex at 17 and started buying sexy bras and undies occasionally at 16. Sure, I had some cotton plainish stuff for normal she's bought me (this was 1990, not now, when even 8 year olds have kinda sexy and girly undies) but my mom didn't even WASH my clothes, much less worry that my bra didn't match my friggin' panties. This is the same girl that was the firsth adultish person I knew who didn't know anything about how to wash he clothes.
Once we hit 10, we were responsible for washing all out cloths and sheets, and we helped out with laundry a LOT before then. I think I started folding baskets of clothes and such when I was 5 or 6. I just don't get it, unless you're crazy-rich, and even then, I'd be all "You are learning how to do a basic cooking and cleaning" -- just like my dad taught us girls basic car maintenance and light carpentry.
Strix - Jun 18, 2013 6:59:35 pm PDT #26329 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
NOT WATCHING THE SNAKE! I like them in their ecosystems, eating rodents, but not within houses...or outside, within 20 feet of me. I don't mind little garter snakes; we used to race them as kids. LITTLE ONES, like 4 inches.
Atropa - Jun 18, 2013 7:01:11 pm PDT #26330 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I mean, give me a non-vague instruction, and I'll do the non-vague task. That's more typical of behavior in the non-neurotypical. We like specifics! Specifics are good!
AHAHAHAHAHA. Considering I just got zapped at work for not figuring out and excelling at hella vague tasks, SO MUCH THIS.
Strix - Jun 18, 2013 7:10:14 pm PDT #26331 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
A very useful term INHVirgoO is "Let me check my understanding of this" (preferably in writing) and then repeating things back to the instruction-giver so they can clarify. And I take notes.
I believe strongly in CYA. And also in giving explicit, clear instructions, and checking people's understanding. People are often afraid of appearing incompetent or dumb, so they'll just say "Uh-uh," whereas that phrase is pretty innocuous AND CsYA.
Trudy Booth - Jun 18, 2013 7:20:50 pm PDT #26332 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
At ten I think I was cooking dinner on a fairly regular basis. Not meal planning but certainly following instructions. Not much older than that I was coming up with my own special recipes and making those sometimes.
Typo Boy - Jun 18, 2013 7:23:42 pm PDT #26333 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Started cooking at six. My first dish was a herb omlette. The cookbook explained out to seperate the eggs and the yolks, and we had all the herb required by the recipe in the house.
Burrell - Jun 18, 2013 7:29:57 pm PDT #26334 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I am so relieved to hear that others have to take a good long while to process it when someone speaks to them because I am so that way. Sometimes I stare for a good while at a person waiting for the words to come into focus.
DH was just watching an idiotic show on the science of sex, full of all sorts of fun "facts" like "men like looking at breasts" and "men have a higher sex drive than women because women are looking for a mate that will stick around." Really?! It was like a Time magazine article in tv form.
Zenkitty - Jun 18, 2013 7:34:17 pm PDT #26335 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I was never taught to cook, and still am crap at it. I was never taught anything that didn't have to do with cars or feeding livestock; everything else I know, I learned by trial-and-error or by finding out for myself. I am the person who's often wished for an Instruction Manual for Life. I think my family assumed that because I was really smart, I didn't need to be taught anything, I'd just somehow...know. My family was also the kind who'd run to do everything for me on one day, and the next day be annoyed with me for not doing it for myself. Not conductive to learning.
Burrell - Jun 18, 2013 7:40:19 pm PDT #26336 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
BTW as far as the kids doing housework thing goes, my kids are lame, you'll all be mocking them in a couple years. They've been "folding" clothes since kindergarten, but I always have to redo them if I want them to actually look folded. Both kids have changed the sheets, but they need to be coached through it. Really, they can't even be trusted to straighten up their bedrooms, and they are asked to do that daily. Same with setting and clearing the table. And I was equally incompetent at their ages.