Figgy1
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I know somebody who used to joke that's where all the Nazis went when they went into hiding.
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Where in the World Isn't Bob Saget?
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My dad and I did Steakhouse 71 last year, and now we're going with my mom, brother, and his fiancee, too. My dad and I were going to do Homecoming last year, but ultimately settled on The Boathouse instead.
ajrwdwgirl
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The Boathouse is a good choice too and I don't even like seafood. I usually get steak or a burger there and it is good. Although with this talk about Homecoming I wish I had some fried chicken.
Even the Ingraham vs Wright case in 1977, SCOTUS in a 5-4 vote ruled that corporal punishment is legal in schools. It was tough love that I was raised in school and in family but it made me a better stronger person because of it.
It was downpouring as we walked to The Boathouse. We were soaked and freezing in the AC. It wasn't the most enjoyable experience for us. I got a burger, but I don't remember it too well because of how much we all just wanted to be dry.The Boathouse is a good choice too and I don't even like seafood. I usually get steak or a burger there and it is good. Although with this talk about Homecoming I wish I had some fried chicken.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
My mom was an arm slapper. We got cuffed in the upper arm for stepping out of line. You knew it was coming as soon as you mouthed back … and yet somehow still never actually saw it coming til it happened.
No beatings, no smacks in the face, no belts or flyswatters. It was the 70’s … we survived. I did not have a traumatic childhood at all.
I’ve shared my memories - we weren’t poor, but we certainly weren’t rich (more just a shade lower than middle class), with a dad who worked in a factory and a stay at home mom. We had a great childhood. Two weeks every summer at a Lake Erie cottage, church every Sunday, regular visits with the grandparents, and cousins that we ran the neighbourhood with … until the street lights came on. I wouldn’t trade a thing. Not even the occasional slap upside the arm.
Been thinking of you and wondering how the wildfires are affecting you and yours.
ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
Sounds a lot like my childhood except mom was an arm pincher, if we were acting up in public she would pinch us under our arms. I learned quickly that I didn’t like the pinches.
Songbird76
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Our band teacher got fired for abuse. I didn't take band that year because I had given up on it. We had had such bad history. There was an elementary teacher who had band certification, but she didn't want to teach band. She was my brother's 5th grade teacher, but then the band teacher left...there were allegations of him molesting girls. So he left or was fired. I was only 10, so I don't know...it was pretty hush hush. So then they needed a band teacher. So they forced that teacher to teach band. She agreed for one year and said the next year, they needed to find someone else, because she wouldn't be teaching band after that. But they tried to make her teach band again, so when I was in 6th grade, we didn't have a band teacher. She left the district rather than teach band. So they managed to get someone in for a month or two, but it was always going to be a temp, and then we had a while without a teacher again, and then we got someone in for the end of the year. We went into 7th grade without much actual instruction, and the jr. high/high school made it so miserable for the choir/band teacher that she quit after that year. The teacher the next year was fine, so I decided to go back to band, but she had left, and we got some guy on sabbatical who was verbally abusive and told us what losers we all were and how much he hated us. That was the only time my mom ever let me quit something halfway through the year. Then I guess at the last concert, he told all the parents how awful their kids were and it was all their fault because they were terrible parents and their kids were never going to amound to anything, bla bla bla. So HE left and I had given up by that time. So they got this other teacher in, and she apparently threw stuff at kids who made mistakes, and then one day she had told them all to shut up and this one girl had the mouthpiece of her clarinet in her mouth already and someone made her laugh, so she ended up making a sound. The teacher thought it was this other girl and literally put her hands around the girl's neck and choked her. They fired her, and when they went into her office, they found a bunch of booze stashes. Not quite the same as corporal punishment, but there was definitely a pattern of abuse!
Songbird76
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My mom's weapon of choice was a wooden spoon. Horrible. I'd definitely say my childhood was traumatic. I didn't often step out of line, but the times I got spanked, I remember clearly, and I really didn't deserve it. It was way out of proportion to what I'd done. I'm raising my kids completely differently.
It was the "rites of passage" but when I pledged my college fraternity and especially during Hell Week, what one reads about it when hazing gets reported is somewhat the sanitized version of it . Pledging a sorority is no walk in the park either also but mostly it was more mind mental games those girls had to deal with.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Thank you. Bestie in NY has poorer air quality than us right now. We’re living at the trailer predominately this summer. It’s gorgeous here.
Mike took the dog for a walk while I had a shower, and came back saying he could smell smoke. I mean it’s a campground, so who knows?
Toronto, about 40 minutes east of here, has very poor air quality and most outdoor events have been cancelled.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
I’m sorry this happened to you. You’ve shared in the past that your mom wasn’t the greatest toward you.
I’ve been known to whack my youngest son with a wooden spoon. Not the same though. He’s (almost) 27, and likes to chase me around the living room with a booger on his finger.
Anyone wonder why Mike and I and the pup are living out at the campground this summer?
We had some orange skies last week, but not to that extent. That's crazy.
Last night it looked magenta. Must be the smoke interacting with the variety of normal NYC pollution.
I'm an hour due north of Yankee Stadium, and we have some yellow-green sky going on. (now that I think on it, it's booger colored)
Glad to see you've got blue skies!
Borrowed this from another poster in another thread, but yeah, around 4pm this afternoon it was not good in the immediate NYC area.
Goofyernmost
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Some went there and others became Dental Hygienists. I remember them well. They are all gone now so I think it is safe to get ones teeth cleaned again.