"Hey Johnny, get Daddy his pack of smokes off the end table."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for you if you don't live somewhere where you can tell your kids "Just be home by dinner".

Where do YOU live? And how old are your kids?

Upper Montgomery County - Germantown/Gaithersburg area. My kids are now teens but have played/rode bikes in our very safe neighborhood with the other neighborhood kids since they were 10 or so, and they were older than a lot of the other kids before I allowed them to play outside for extended periods of time without coming to check in repeatedly. This is not unusual at all in the nice neighborhoods in our area, and is one of the reasons a lot of us choose to live out in the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

I can't figure out how to program the damn VCR!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I often have to resist the urge to tell my kid I feel "like a broken record."

I do say it, but it has no meaning to my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for you if you don't live somewhere where you can tell your kids "Just be home by dinner".

Where do YOU live? And how old are your kids?

Upper Montgomery County - Germantown/Gaithersburg area. My kids are now teens but have played/rode bikes in our very safe neighborhood with the other neighborhood kids since they were 10 or so, and they were older than a lot of the other kids before I allowed them to play outside for extended periods of time without coming to check in repeatedly. This is not unusual at all in the nice neighborhoods in our area, and is one of the reasons a lot of us choose to live out in the suburbs.

Well goody for you. Just sit back and clutch your pearls and continue to feel sorry for a lot of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for you if you don't live somewhere where you can tell your kids "Just be home by dinner".

Where do YOU live? And how old are your kids?

Upper Montgomery County - Germantown/Gaithersburg area. My kids are now teens but have played/rode bikes in our very safe neighborhood with the other neighborhood kids since they were 10 or so, and they were older than a lot of the other kids before I allowed them to play outside for extended periods of time without coming to check in repeatedly. This is not unusual at all in the nice neighborhoods in our area, and is one of the reasons a lot of us choose to live out in the suburbs.

Well goody for you. Just sit back and clutch your pearls and continue to feel sorry for a lot of people.

Oh, the other reason we live out here is so we don't have to live near snarky people like you, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for you if you don't live somewhere where you can tell your kids "Just be home by dinner".

Where do YOU live? And how old are your kids?

Upper Montgomery County - Germantown/Gaithersburg area. My kids are now teens but have played/rode bikes in our very safe neighborhood with the other neighborhood kids since they were 10 or so, and they were older than a lot of the other kids before I allowed them to play outside for extended periods of time without coming to check in repeatedly. This is not unusual at all in the nice neighborhoods in our area, and is one of the reasons a lot of us choose to live out in the suburbs.

Well goody for you. Just sit back and clutch your pearls and continue to feel sorry for a lot of people.

?? Not the Gaithersburg poster, but I'd say she isn't the pearl cluther here. She sounds more like a free range mom. Ten is an acceptable age in the vast majority of neighborhoods to have a home by dinner rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for you if you don't live somewhere where you can tell your kids "Just be home by dinner".

Where do YOU live? And how old are your kids?

Upper Montgomery County - Germantown/Gaithersburg area. My kids are now teens but have played/rode bikes in our very safe neighborhood with the other neighborhood kids since they were 10 or so, and they were older than a lot of the other kids before I allowed them to play outside for extended periods of time without coming to check in repeatedly. This is not unusual at all in the nice neighborhoods in our area, and is one of the reasons a lot of us choose to live out in the suburbs.

Well goody for you. Just sit back and clutch your pearls and continue to feel sorry for a lot of people.

Oh, the other reason we live out here is so we don't have to live near snarky people like you, PP.

Yes, smug self righteousness and unwarranted pity for people you don't know is so much more attractive than a little snark.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for you if you don't live somewhere where you can tell your kids "Just be home by dinner".

Where do YOU live? And how old are your kids?

Upper Montgomery County - Germantown/Gaithersburg area. My kids are now teens but have played/rode bikes in our very safe neighborhood with the other neighborhood kids since they were 10 or so, and they were older than a lot of the other kids before I allowed them to play outside for extended periods of time without coming to check in repeatedly. This is not unusual at all in the nice neighborhoods in our area, and is one of the reasons a lot of us choose to live out in the suburbs.

Well goody for you. Just sit back and clutch your pearls and continue to feel sorry for a lot of people.

Oh, the other reason we live out here is so we don't have to live near snarky people like you, PP.

Yes, smug self righteousness and unwarranted pity for people you don't know is so much more attractive than a little snark.

Not smug and self righteous...just honest. It is a shame that ALL kids don't live somewhere they can go outside and play without fear. I know it's not the reality many places any more, and I do wish all children could have that opportunity.

[Anonymous]

Someday, during your lifetime, NASA or some American organization will send people in vessels through the universe to discover new planets and new life.

[Anonymous]

"I forgot to put the carbon paper in the typewriter."

[Anonymous]

Don't sit too close to the tv.

[Anonymous]

Do we have any white-out?

I need the N-P encyclopedia when youare done with it.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to go use the pay phone

[Anonymous]

Sitting on the phone book as a booster seat.

[Anonymous]

I have to put down the phone a minute. I have to turn off the oven and the cord doesn't go that far.