About Your Parents Thread

Until you realized it began, "There once was a man from Nantucket ..."

 

"In Mobile, in Mobile..."

 

Guess it would go in a thread about parenting ...

 

Get to Twitter, obviously.

 

Depends on the neighbor's politics.

 

Pick up the trash, and deposit it right at the kids' front door.

 

That is an option. So is returning another time and calmly explaining what happened and express your appreciation because you know the parents will correct such behavior in the future. Then wish them a lovely day.

 

Take it to NextDoor and light up the neighborhood.

 

There is no better principle my parents taught me than respect your elders; it deeply saddens me that youngsters don't respect the elders in the community. Attacking/ripping off old people? Seriously?

I had/have the opposite of helicopter parents; it was basic, are you happy? do you need (not want) anything? no complaints? Great life's good. Be grateful for what little (or more than little) we/you have. Don't wish for things you don't/cant't have. Glass is half full. I'm so lucky that they instilled that it me. (not the easiest path, parents were both divorced in late 60's; one a high school grad, one 11th grade education; multi-racial couple; now married 45 years.)

 

I was on the train a few weeks ago and this like 20 year old kid was sitting on the floor in the vestibule and when the train doors opened he pitched his empty bag of McDonald’s out the door so that it fell down into the gap between the door and the track. It reminded me of the 1970s when littering like that was normal, and it also made me want to throw this kid right down after his McDonald’s. Instead I said nothing because I’m too old to pick fights with every shithead I encounter. You can’t be everyone’s parent.

 

I miss watching the news every night with my dad, which I did after work when I boomeranged back home when I was in my early 20s. He had an opinion on just about everything that was going on in the world and mostly it involved outrage. I can't imagine what he would say watching the shit show the world has become now. It would be so much fun to watch.
My wife basically won't watch the news with me anymore because I have become my father.
Only my youngest daughter will watch TV with me because she's a lot like me and just laughs when I make fun of absolutely everything and everyone. Often she makes fun of people along with me.

 

Is there nothing this guy keeps to himself?