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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Purl Gurl: [QB] Oh, not Purl Gurl's World, Purl Gurl's Place. Suppose I was not impressed enough to remember. Yes, I was in here at three or four in the morning a couple of days back; Grandma's Day. No, I not a grandmother. Grandma's Day is every single day. Grandma would also wake up around three or four in the morning, light some coal oil lamps, go out to our well house, fetch some fire wood, build a fire in her stove, then prepare for the coming day. She would stoke her fire, pump many buckets of water to fill her water tank inside her stove so the men folk would have warm water for face washing and shaving. While her water warmed, she would make biscuits, from scratch, go out to the smoke house, slice off some pork, fetch potatoes from the root celler, then proceed to cook a big breakfast for all, scrambled eggs, a slice of ham, fried sliced potatoes along biscuits and gravy, all washed down with great raw milk. Maybe some butter if she churned. Nothing as good as breakfast in kitchen warmed by a wood burning stove and lit by coal oil lamps. That is stove as in cooking stove. We would not eat again until after sunset. Periodically, when a busy day is about rise, I will have Grandma Day. This is a day I wake up and start the day around three or four in the morning, like Grandma. I think we set fence posts, poured concrete that day, at a rental. Worked until sunset, just like on our farm. Saturday, I grabbed our daughter and took her along. The two of us erected about a hundred feet of fencing during the day. This is part of her earning her keep, although she works full time during the week. Today, her and I took turns operating a hundred pound Bosch jack hammer busting up a run of concrete, a foot wide by thirty feet long. This including shoveling it out, wheelbarrowing and all that. We are about to install an underground electric run and sprinkler pipes for a rental. The moral to this story is there is no moral. I am just bragging about how darn hard we work. Took a niece out to aimlessly drive around in my Corvette. She calls, asks if we could drive around and talk. This is her signal she has some issues. She did. I could not resolve her issues. Only she can do this, even though she is only fourteen. Be sure I was both honest and compassionate. Toughest time our lives is when we are teenagers, very tough. Ended the evening with a dead battery. I forgot to turn off my headlamps when we stopped for frozen yogurt in a mall. This responsibility became hers. She had to break a dollar to attain some quarters, make a phone call (we have no cell phones) to my old man, explain were we are and to bring jumper cables. She does fine. While waiting for hubby to show, I spot a young couple told her to watch. The boy has his arms wrapped around her, she does not wrap her arms around him. She is pushing backwards, he is pulling her close, "Watch, he will take her arms and make her wrap her arms around his neck." He does. This leads to a talk about how men are control freaks, how men are physical, demanding, all the usual stuff. Eventually, as I predicted, she would push away from the boy being uncomfortable. She does so. My old man brings the wrong truck, no jumpers. We have to ride back home to pick up cables. My niece asks if she could just stay home. "No, you may not. You must see this event through from start to finish. Go fetch the jumpers," and I tell her where to find those jumper cables. Back at the 'Vette, she is taught how to hook up the jumpers, let the battery charge a bit, and she has to start the 'Vette, after being advised how to place a stick shift in neutral. She does just fine and rides with me back home. Issues. She wants me to buy her a pack of smokes. This was a tough topic to discuss. Some of her friends have cigarettes, she wants to fit in. Dealing with peer group pressure is so hard. "...but smoking pot is illegal and smoking cigarettes is legal." How do you justify this? You do not. There is never a rational explanation for hypocrisy. We move on into topic of her being on a diet and she is doing well. Sex, drugs, rock n roll, the whole stick. I tell her I would rather she smoke pot than cigarettes, talk about how nicotine is the most addictive drug known, smoker's breath, the stench, health, cancer and all that. She is grounded for Summer, the last month of Summer. She and friends do a sleep over, get drunk the night of the sleep over. Next night, the night she is to go home, they get drunk again. She calls mom for a ride home, mom figures out she is drunk. I explain to her this is stupid. "You got away with this on the first night. The second night you knew mom would pick you up. You turned yourself in, you confessed. That was stupid." We talk about the importance of planning, the importance of being a good thinker, the critical importance of responsibility, like not drinking and driving. Not sure all soaked in. On the way home we pull up next to a Mustang GT. She wants me to race the Mustang, which is no race at all. I do not tell her Mustangs are no match having street raced those before, always blowing their doors off. I do tell her if we are caught street racing, our laws require I spend a night in jail, my 'Vette taken away and I will be charged with child endangerment, along creating severe family issues. My niece did come away with a fifty dollar bill. I asked her if she would trade her remaining two quarters for fifty bucks, "Sh!t yes I will," and she does. Know where she stashed that fifty I peeled off and handed her? In her bra. Smart girl. This led to talk about how important is being successful and earning good money along with how only mature and responsible people are those who win in life; nobody will give you fifty bucks for two quarters. No moral but this is why I am up late, tonight, and will be up at five in the morning, to get right back to work. If there is a moral, discussion boards are no different than teenage peer group pressure. Here people behave as their peer group does. Most often, this behavior is inappropriate. A lot of people, a majority of people who participate at discussion boards, need to grow up, need to mature, need to be responsible and need to not succumb to peer group pressure. At times, this discussion board teenage behavior is downright annoying. Taha [/QB][/QUOTE]
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