The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Songbird76]

Seriously I do not think I could have lived your life as a teen. I would have been a teenage runaway.

The thing was, I loved my life for the most part. Not the part about my mom being strict, but she was ALWAYS there if I needed something. Like....we had this new English teacher one year who had been a teacher in Florida at a school with metal detectors and guard dogs...she came to podunk nowhere Wyoming and tried to run her classroom like a drill sergent. She told us she was always right, we were always wrong. The school policy was that if you were absent because you were sick, you got 2 days to make up any homework for each day you were out. If you were out for a school activity, you were supposed to get your assignments before you left so you could hand them in on time. So I had a speech and debate tournament one weekend and I asked this teacher for my assignments. She hadn't made up the lesson plan yet, so she wrote some assignments down on a post-it note and handed it to me. I did those assignments and on Monday, when she came to collect them, she gave me a zero because I "had done the wrong assignments." She had changed her mind after assigning me the things she did. I showed her the post it with the assignments on it...she said she wouldn't have made such a mistake. Even though I had the proof, in her handwriting, she refused to give me credit for the work I had done and wouldn't give me extra time to do the correct assignments. I went to my mom, and my mom went in and talked to her. She wouldn't budge, but at least my mom believed me and that was one time she didn't bug me about the grade....it wasn't my fault and she KNEW it wasn't my fault, so mom gave me a pass.
And I filled my time with so many school activities that it didn't matter so much that my curfew was dark unless I was at a school function. Most nights I was at the school until 8 or 9 for cheerleading, speech and debate practice, play practice, Student Council meetings, National Honor Society, German club....there was always something. And I got a job doing timing/scoring for basketball and volleyball games, and senior year I was a tutor. So I was never home anyway. I was spread so thin I was transparent. Most weekends I was at Speech tournaments, or ball games. I had a lot of fun.

 

[21stamps]

@21stamps the friend with the car battery situation was over 8 years in Newark NJ and Harlem NY and that's all that ever happened expect the desk that came flying out a nearby high school. That one just missed me

That sounds like an interesting story!!!! I’m glad you weren’t harmed by a flying desk!

 

[21stamps]

I didn't even have to ride my bike to my friends' houses...most of them lived on my street!! I met my bestie when we moved into the house in town when my parents divorced. We moved into town and while my mom was moving stuff into the house, my brother and I were out playing on the street and my best friend's mom came out and asked all the kids out there if they wanted to come in for cake....it was my bestie's 6th birthday. So I met her on her 6th birthday when we were invited in for cake. It was summer, so by the time school started, we were fast friends and we walked to school together every morning until I got my drivers license, then I picked her up in the car. And up the street was another girl in our class, across from my bestie was another girl in my class, there were 2 boys in my class who lived on the street, and 2 in my brother's class, and then for a while there was also another girl in my class that my mom babysat. It was full of kids our age and we all just went out and played together...whoever was outside. There were lots of freeze tag and hide-and-go-seek games, along with snake in the grass. And with the girls, there were a lot of cartwheels.
As we grew up, most of those kids moved away until our house was the only one on the street. (trailer park) My best friend moved one street over when her parents divorced and her mom and her new boyfriend bought a doublewide that wouldn't fit on the old lot. But she was literally just feet from where her old house was, so it wasn't a huge change. So I still picked her up for school and we still met in the middle of the street to go for a walk. Good times. I miss my best friend so so much!!

Sounds like a lot of fun! Childhood best friends always hold a special place in our hearts, I’m sure you miss her. I completely understand!



T had some friends over a little while ago, I taught them how to play “kick the can”. Does anyone else remember that game?
Our neighborhood kids would always play that and “Ghost in the graveyard”. I’ll never forget one time when my dad climbed a tree in our backyard.. with a few mini bean bags.. we were playing the game and suddenly my dad threw the bean bags at us and yelled a loud growl. We had no idea he was out there!! Scared us to death

 

[21stamps]

Ah, but a GPS tracker won't tell you whether he invited a bunch of kids over while you're at work. It will tell you he's home, but not who else is there or what they are doing. You may want to have a backup plan.

Nanny cams. I’ll have them secretly installed when he reaches high school.

Too creepy?

 

[21stamps]

Security cameras

Ha!!! We’re on the same page!!

There is a frost advisory for tonight. Friday should be a high of 63. I think I will have to be grateful for that. We want to go to Hershey Park Friday night.

I had to scrape my car windows this morning.

 

[21stamps]

The thing was, I loved my life for the most part. Not the part about my mom being strict, but she was ALWAYS there if I needed something. Like....we had this new English teacher one year who had been a teacher in Florida at a school with metal detectors and guard dogs...she came to podunk nowhere Wyoming and tried to run her classroom like a drill sergent. She told us she was always right, we were always wrong. The school policy was that if you were absent because you were sick, you got 2 days to make up any homework for each day you were out. If you were out for a school activity, you were supposed to get your assignments before you left so you could hand them in on time. So I had a speech and debate tournament one weekend and I asked this teacher for my assignments. She hadn't made up the lesson plan yet, so she wrote some assignments down on a post-it note and handed it to me. I did those assignments and on Monday, when she came to collect them, she gave me a zero because I "had done the wrong assignments." She had changed her mind after assigning me the things she did. I showed her the post it with the assignments on it...she said she wouldn't have made such a mistake. Even though I had the proof, in her handwriting, she refused to give me credit for the work I had done and wouldn't give me extra time to do the correct assignments. I went to my mom, and my mom went in and talked to her. She wouldn't budge, but at least my mom believed me and that was one time she didn't bug me about the grade....it wasn't my fault and she KNEW it wasn't my fault, so mom gave me a pass.
And I filled my time with so many school activities that it didn't matter so much that my curfew was dark unless I was at a school function. Most nights I was at the school until 8 or 9 for cheerleading, speech and debate practice, play practice, Student Council meetings, National Honor Society, German club....there was always something. And I got a job doing timing/scoring for basketball and volleyball games, and senior year I was a tutor. So I was never home anyway. I was spread so thin I was transparent. Most weekends I was at Speech tournaments, or ball games. I had a lot of fun.

I’m so glad to read this! I imagined you being confined indoors before dinner every night.

 

[21stamps]

I never had a blackberry. I didn't even know what it was until I saw it on Everwood. Amy Abbott got one from her boyfriend. Something I never understood....why did they call it a blackberry?

For as obsessed as I was with Blackberry- I had every single one from the original.until they tried to compete with Apple..the touch screen blackberry was junk!!! I returned it within 48 hours... I just used the Bold and an iPhone- I don’t know why they had that name. They were the first phone to have an exclusive messenger though.. BBM was great, but I’d say Apple iMessage wins because you can see if someone is responding.. and the iPad to phone feature. Although sometimes I wish that didn’t exist.. T and I face time every day after school, but then he goes on a text emoji rampage periodically, complete with special effects.

Brick breaker was a really great game though.. I’m not even a phone-game person.. but my friends and I would always compete in brickbreaker. Lol

 

[King Panda 77]

Spoiler: tree two :-)

 

[93boomer]

Spoiler: tree two :)

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Awesome!!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I never had a blackberry. I didn't even know what it was until I saw it on Everwood. Amy Abbott got one from her boyfriend. Something I never understood....why did they call it a blackberry?

No clue myself.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Sounds like a lot of fun! Childhood best friends always hold a special place in our hearts, I’m sure you miss her. I completely understand!



T had some friends over a little while ago, I taught them how to play “kick the can”. Does anyone else remember that game?
Our neighborhood kids would always play that and “Ghost in the graveyard”. I’ll never forget one time when my dad climbed a tree in our backyard.. with a few mini bean bags.. we were playing the game and suddenly my dad threw the bean bags at us and yelled a loud growl. We had no idea he was out there!! Scared us to death

I remember kick the can. I loved running bases the best though. Then Chinese Jacks became popular when I was in 6th grade.

 

[93boomer]

No clue myself.

Just googled. Something to do with the keys looking like blackberry pieces. You got me there!

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Ha!!! We’re on the same page!!



I had to scrape my car windows this morning.

Auto start is your friend.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

For as obsessed as I was with Blackberry- I had every single one from the original.until they tried to compete with Apple..the touch screen blackberry was junk!!! I returned it within 48 hours... I just used the Bold and an iPhone- I don’t know why they had that name. They were the first phone to have an exclusive messenger though.. BBM was great, but I’d say Apple iMessage wins because you can see if someone is responding.. and the iPad to phone feature. Although sometimes I wish that didn’t exist.. T and I face time every day after school, but then he goes on a text emoji rampage periodically, complete with special effects.

Brick breaker was a really great game though.. I’m not even a phone-game person.. but my friends and I would always compete in brickbreaker. Lol

I love imessage as well. I just turned off the feature where it lets someone else know if you read their text. Sometimes I want to mull over a response.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Just googled. Something to do with the keys looking like blackberry pieces. You got me there!

If they say so.....

 

[21stamps]

Auto start is your friend.

I have it.. and the app on my phone.lol. Didn’t use either one. I wasn’t expecting frost at all!

 

[21stamps]

I love imessage as well. I just turned off the feature where it lets someone else know if you read their text. Sometimes I want to mull over a response.

Same!

 

[Cesar R M]

That stinks. Sadly there is no recourse. I won't install the new iphone update on my phone because I heard that it has glitches.

I did a marathonic installation in the past 24 hours.. reinstalled windows and 90% of my apps.. I was up at 5:00 am yesterday and woke up at 10 lol.

I'm dead x_x

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

I just saw that it is like the old vouchers they used to give out for the mini golf, etc.
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/guest-services/vacation-package-magical-extras/

I just saw that it is like the old vouchers they used to give out for the mini golf, etc. @SteveBrickNJ
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/guest-services/vacation-package-magical-extras/

Sorry @MySmallWorldof4 that it took me until now to open and read the link. Thanks to you, that link is self explanatory. Thank you for the perfect answer to my original question.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

Sorry @MySmallWorldof4 that it took me until now to open and read the link. Thanks to you, that link is self explanatory. Thank you for the View attachment 320659View attachment 320659View attachment 320659perfect answer to my original question.

You're most welcome!