Random Thoughts IV

[ImJustKCClone]

Oh, and, the difference between men and women. Minon has a son who started at kirkwood, but lives at home because she lives like a half mile from there anyway. We get along pretty well, so we talk pretty openly. So, she's down there messing around on her phone and asks if I can print something for her, and I say sure, what do you need?
She starts rambling on about she can't figure out the bus schedule, and she starts showing me, and it's clear she's trying to figure out the bus schedule for her 18 YO son. I tell her that she should just tell him to handle his $***, and she's like "But I gotta figure this out, or else I'll have to drive him to school every day." and I said "no, you tell him he's 18, he's going to college, he can handle his own $***. I went to ISU when I was his same age, and I didn't live with my parents, so you know what, I had to handle my $***, he can handle his $***. I didn't call my mom and ask her to figure out my bus schedule, or drive me to school as an 18 year old man...I handled my own $***. Tell him to handle his $***." She says she can't, so I ask if she wants me to call him and tell him to handle his $***, because I can.

NOT the difference between men & women. The difference between you & her. No way in hell I'd be pampering my guys like that. They all got jobs as soon as they were old enough to drive, because they weren't driving unless they paid for gas, and they weren't driving MY car if I needed it, so they'd better be earning enough to purchase a car. We did cover insurance, unless they f'd up. Then we still covered them on our policy, but they paid the difference in the premium.

There are plenty of women who expect their children to grow up and be adults.

 

[stormchaser2014]

So the question is finally answered.

Because I drank it. Or CG did.

 

[00clone]

I think it's more of a generational thing there than a gender thing.

Fair point. In my head, I was also factoring in all of Mrs00's worrying over the weekend that I wasn't doing over little00 going to kindergarten.

 

[GTO]

Arroz con gandyles and m

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Arroz con gandyles and m

That chicken looks like a jerk made it!

(Did I do that right?)

 

[GTO]

Arroz con gandules and Caribbean jerk chicken. I also made some fried green plantains (tostones, not pictured). My wife said it was the best chicken I ever made and there were no Caribbean jerk jokes from her today!

 

[GTO]

That chicken looks like a jerk made it!

(Did I do that right?)

Wife had no jerk jokes today, but I knew I would get some from some Hawaiian jerk.

 

[BoxsterCy]

That chicken looks like a jerk made it!

(Did I do that right?)

Leeloo: Cheekin good. Cheekin!

 

[cowgirl836]

I think it's more of a generational thing there than a gender thing.

yeah that's more of a helicopter parent vs throw you in the pool and learn to swim parent.


I don't think my parents even knew ISU had a bus system. I remember the freshmen orientation over the summer and they talked about how now as a college student you'd have to get yourself up every morning. I was like da fuq? Days I milked mornings, I was the first person up. I can probably count on one hand the number of times my parents had to wake me up after we moved to the farm.

My mom came back from the parent sessions and said parents were asking if they would be able to contact professors to talk about homework or grades. She was horrified too.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Dear guy next to me, the bartender is not impressed with your usage of beer terms nor your asking to sample every beer on the board.

 

[Cybirdy]

Saying at our house is "figure it out yourself". Applies to all ages.

I never rode CyRide while at ISU. I always lived close to campus (like walk across the street and you at at the MU from where I lived for 3yrs) and always had a car to go run errands (my sister was older and had a car we shared when I lived in MWL). So anyway, we were on campus earlier this month walking around and got stopped by a foreign student holding a CyRide map. We were by Music Hall and he wanted to get to the mall. I had to try and figure out the bus schedule, at least I knew where we were and where he was wanting to go. We saw him on the bus we told him to get on, so hopefully he made it to the mall.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

yeah that's more of a helicopter parent vs throw you in the pool and learn to swim parent.


I don't think my parents even knew ISU had a bus system. I remember the freshmen orientation over the summer and they talked about how now as a college student you'd have to get yourself up every morning. I was like da fuq? Days I milked mornings, I was the first person up. I can probably count on one hand the number of times my parents had to wake me up after we moved to the farm.

My mom came back from the parent sessions and said parents were asking if they would be able to contact professors to talk about homework or grades. She was horrified too.

My mom didn't even come down to help me move in. She said she'd do that or pay my cell phone bill while down there (back then 19.99 a month). I don't think she even came to Ames for the first time until my first spring down there.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

So ****** at myself. Had a envelope with 71 bucks in it and can't find it. **** my life.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I know just how he feels. Sometimes when my thumbs are not cooperating, I have to use two hands to pick up a glass or risk dropping it & breaking it. My water bottle has a easy pop top and a loop to hold it, so I can sling it over my forearm if necessary.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

So ****** at myself. Had a envelope with 71 bucks in it and can't find it. **** my life.

That sucks.

Sit down, take a deep breath & think through to the last place you had it. PapaLew will get really frustrated sometimes looking for things, and it turns out he's been walking right past it for an hour...

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

That sucks.

Sit down, take a deep breath & think through to the last place you had it. PapaLew will get really frustrated sometimes looking for things, and it turns out he's been walking right past it for an hour...

Had it Saturday when I went to the fair. I had it on the car on the way home and my mind goes blank. I was in my room Saturday night and didn't go anywhere on Sunday. My rage is growing by the minute.

 

[00clone]

That sucks.

Sit down, take a deep breath & think through to the last place you had it. PapaLew will get really frustrated sometimes looking for things, and it turns out he's been walking right past it for an hour...

See, at least I can admit that that is a male tendency.

 

[00clone]

Had it Saturday when I went to the fair. I had it on the car on the way home and my mind goes blank. I was in my room Saturday night and didn't go anywhere on Sunday. My rage is growing by the minute.

Fall down between the seats?

 

[NWICY]

On a group call with my team and manager. One of the other new hires called me out for working from home the past couple of days (right after the manager said us new hires need to be in the office everyday for a while). Thanks man.

Did he transfer in from Amazon?

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Had it Saturday when I went to the fair. I had it on the car on the way home and my mind goes blank. I was in my room Saturday night and didn't go anywhere on Sunday. My rage is growing by the minute.

Check in the freezer. 90 percent of the time that's where whatever I'm missing is at, regardless of what that item is.