A friend just suggested to our friend with a five year old that they just drop her off at the zoo, since that will be open!
BWAH I would love that. "Here's $15 for lunch, say hi to the elephants for me see you in 6 hours!"
Yes! Ohmigod! Someone's blondie bear's a twenty-question genius!
Harmony ,'Help'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - May 19, 2020 7:52:07 am PDT #21419 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DXMachina - May 19, 2020 8:02:49 am PDT #21420 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It would be educational.
Toddson - May 19, 2020 8:04:14 am PDT #21421 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
A number of years ago there seemed to be a wave of parents doing something like this - they'd drop their kids off at a library or toy store and then go on to do something they didn't want to haul the kids along for. This may have been the source of a sign I've seen reading something like, "unattended children will be given espresso and sent home with a puppy".
-t - May 19, 2020 8:04:33 am PDT #21422 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Being raised by the zoo can't be worse than being raised by wolves, right?
Toddson - May 19, 2020 8:05:24 am PDT #21423 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Depends on who, at the zoo, is doing the raising.
-t - May 19, 2020 8:14:10 am PDT #21424 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I guess hyenas might not be so good
Or pythons.
askye - May 19, 2020 8:14:27 am PDT #21425 of 30019
Thrive to spite them
several months ago there was some grandparents with their grandsons in the store, the boys kept going up the escalator and back down in a loop and they started running and rough housing and I had to say "Please don't run!" a bunch. And another employee overheard the grandparents plan to let the boys play on the escalator while they shopped up stairs. I think right about this time I finally said "please don't play on the escalator" and the grandparents shot me a dirty look.
flea - May 19, 2020 8:21:40 am PDT #21426 of 30019
information libertarian
One of the reasons I don't expect we'll be opening the libraries as public spaces anytime soon is many people already treat the public library as child care. At ages that are really not appropriate.
DXMachina - May 19, 2020 8:25:57 am PDT #21427 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I just got word that my community college course will be online only in the fall. We should have the funding to send some home lab kits to the students. Meanwhile my summer contract got upgraded to full online lecture/lab for 6 credit hours instead of the original 3 for just the hands-on lab it would normally have been.
The uni is making contingency plans for online for the fall, and even if classes are held on campus, numbers per section will be drastically reduced, meaning more sections to be covered.
All of my grades for the spring are in, and my students did much better than I expected going in. It took awhile for many to get their feet under them, but in the end most of them got the required work done.
Trudy Booth - May 19, 2020 8:30:50 am PDT #21428 of 30019
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
Well, I've gone Full Petty and am not going down to the basement to restock the bathroom toilet paper for the fourth time in a row.
I am neither proud nor ashamed that I have my own bedroom stash, I am just DONE.