How the other halves live
Over the last couple of years, mostly thanks to Scrabble tournaments, I’ve become facebook friends with people all across the age spectrum. My youngest facebook friend, is a 9-year-old and my oldest, well, I’m not sure, but I’d say she’s like 89ish. Anyway, this results in my reading status updates that say things like “I hate Mrs. Palitano so much” and “the grandkids are coming…yay!”
This morning I was greeted with two that made me laugh and laugh:
“Today is the first day of college. I am officially an adult with responsibilities.”
and then right below that:
“My daughter in law is pregnant. I guess she’s really part of the family now. Oh well.”
bahahahahahahahahahaaha
August 17th, 2009 at 9:10 am
The last one is brilliant. Hahaha! Nothing stops denial of kinship like pregnancy. #truestory
August 17th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Wait and how does her daughter in law or son not see that? I assume if she has a facebook account so do they. Ack. #soawkward
August 17th, 2009 at 9:14 am
hahah not in my family. We have become masters of wiping out unwanted personages over the years; to the point where even the kids start to think they were produced by either immaculate conception or springing live from the head of zeus (depending on whether the mother or father is persona non grata.) I love my family.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Um..not necessarily, if I recall, she mostly has other scrabble people on there.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Um, you’re facebook friends with my mother in law??
August 17th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Yep – going to college makes you an adult. Yet for some reason a song from “Avenue Q” is running through my mind right now.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Gib, Hey I know; you know, this kid’s about to find out!
August 17th, 2009 at 9:56 am
hahahaha “i’m an adult now”! hahahaha KILLS ME! hahahahahahahahah These crazy kids. hhahahahahahaha
August 17th, 2009 at 10:29 am
springing live from the head of zeus
Benefits of a classical education? You’re such a show-off.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Uh, if by “classical education” you mean, sixth grade…
August 17th, 2009 at 11:39 am
The first one – hahahahahahaha!
August 17th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Oooh, that reminds me, I should respond to that email from my mother-in-law from, like, two weeks ago.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
6th grade? We didn’t get to Edith Hamilton until Freshman year of college! I’d better not hear you complain about your ‘hood education again.
August 17th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
bahahahahaha, well i was always in advanced programs…but dyam, freshman year, kid??? REALLY????
August 17th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Yeah, I don’t think I ever learned any greek myths in school. Someone gave me a great book of greek myths as a kid & I read that book over & over on my own.
August 17th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
What pearatty said. I devoured the D&D Monster Manual book when I was 8, which pretty much covered the gamut of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology characters and from there I got intrigued enough to get a few other books on my own. But it wasn’t mentioned in school, other than a few oblique references, until a college course on Comparative Religions.
I am soooo raising my kids in Flatbush.
August 17th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
We had the Hamilton book at my public school in West Virginia too (altho not in 6th grade – at least for my regular classes) — not sure if that’s a commentary on the schools or the need to imagine being somewhere else.
August 17th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
If you were relying on school to teach you things in elementary school you were already falling behind. Get yourself to a library, lazy kid.
August 17th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Jamie,
Flatbush is all gentrified now, kid. You can’t afford it.
August 17th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Congratulations! When are you due?
chsw
August 17th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Oh, and actually the gifted program that I was in during elementary school was cut by giuliani because it made the dumb kids feel dumb.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I hate dumb kids.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
They’re so dumb.
August 17th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Actually, I guess it’s more accurate to say it made the parents of the dumb kids feel like their kids were dumb.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
There’s actually a place called Flatbush?
NY is awesome.
Awesome like large, stuffed big apples that my kid inexplicably loves to hug and kiss, then kick like a soccer ball across the floor awesome.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:32 am
They say that 40% of twitter messages are pointless babble:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.80c182849ca932a32a5eda49e4fe1b02.3b1&show_article=1
and I say, they don’t know you.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Uhh…thanks?
August 20th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
40% of 41% he meant to say.