Comments on: http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:13:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: JerseyChick http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5310 JerseyChick Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:45:10 +0000 http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5310 Idjut. Not only for the challenge, but for forgetting that #1 lost so much not-so-long-ago. Well, if there's a silver lining, at least he's not a wuss. Idjut. Not only for the challenge, but for forgetting that #1 lost so much not-so-long-ago.

Well, if there’s a silver lining, at least he’s not a wuss.

]]> By: Sweet Daddio http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5309 Sweet Daddio Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:51:00 +0000 http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5309 Don't even ask how my "come to Jesus meeting" with the boy went. He thought he was enough of a bull to challenge the old bull last night..... Don’t even ask how my “come to Jesus meeting” with the boy went. He thought he was enough of a bull to challenge the old bull last night…..

]]> By: rootietoot http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5308 rootietoot Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:38:35 +0000 http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5308 Thank you, I will. That is in essence the conversation we had last night, how respect was earned through experience, and one is treated as an adult when one has behaved as one. This after we were told of some rather harrowing driving experiences and how fun they were. I explained what a corpse looks like after it's been flung through a car window, and how that was not an image I cared to have repeated. I'm not sure how much got through. Thank you, I will. That is in essence the conversation we had last night, how respect was earned through experience, and one is treated as an adult when one has behaved as one. This after we were told of some rather harrowing driving experiences and how fun they were. I explained what a corpse looks like after it’s been flung through a car window, and how that was not an image I cared to have repeated.

I’m not sure how much got through.

]]> By: JerseyChick http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5307 JerseyChick Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:08:03 +0000 http://becauseitreallyispersonal.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/1780/#comment-5307 The lack of respect comes from the fact that they (being younger, more inexperienced, myopic, and living in a protected environment where the most complex thing they've had to deal with is a book report) deserve, not contempt, but to know that they are not (yet) worthy of the title "adult". After they've had a car break down 2 states away from home, filed an itemized 1040 form correctly, dealt with the death of a close family member, AND been completely responsible for someone else for more than 48 (consecutive) hours, they may begin to deserve some respect. Holding down a job and getting good grades gets them student-level respect, not adult-level respect. And you may tell them I said so. The lack of respect comes from the fact that they (being younger, more inexperienced, myopic, and living in a protected environment where the most complex thing they’ve had to deal with is a book report) deserve, not contempt, but to know that they are not (yet) worthy of the title “adult”.

After they’ve had a car break down 2 states away from home, filed an itemized 1040 form correctly, dealt with the death of a close family member, AND been completely responsible for someone else for more than 48 (consecutive) hours, they may begin to deserve some respect.

Holding down a job and getting good grades gets them student-level respect, not adult-level respect.

And you may tell them I said so.

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