To the Bernie or Bust people:

[Spiky Bugger]

Now you are behaving like a kid who is SURE that if he screams loudly enough and holds his breath, the pony as a birthday gift will be a sure thing.

Deal is...there ain't gonna be no pony. You can get the cowboy hat, the boots, the spurs and a trip to the horse stables...OR you can get nothing and pass out from oxygen deprivation in the process.

Your choice.

(Now shut the **** up and I will take a couple of fingers of cabernet sauvignon, thank you.)

 

[hilary1617]

Ha! Holding back I see!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Ha! Holding back I see!

True to form, right?

 

[hilary1617]

Exactly the Spiky Bugger we know and love. The petulant, rude misbehavior you so aptly described is testing my patience.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Exactly the Spiky Bugger we know and love. The petulant, rude misbehavior you so aptly described is testing my patience.

I DO NOT BELIEVE that MiniSue just gave, as an example of how useless it is to argue with me when I (ahem) am the one being unreasonable, the fact that we told her that she could go to private college...at our expense...live in dorms and not worry about tuition, room, board, etc OR she could pack up her stuff and go get a job and her own apartment.

That woman is now 41-years old and still thinks that our (my) giving her those choices was being unreasonable!?!? I mean...the tuition ALONE was eighty thousand dollars...two dozen years ago...not including airfare to Europe so she could do a semester abroad! We limited her to Southern Calfornia (or So. Nevada or Arizona) so that commuting costs did not knock the entire endeavor out of economic reach...but there are a lot of colleges and universities around here.

Just like the birthday present...my money, my choice.

And I don't care if she wants to whine about it twenty-four years later.

No ponies, no Bernie. And no sitting around figuring out what to do with your life.

 

[DSRIGGS]

I DO NOT BELIEVE that MiniSue just gave, as an example of how useless it is to argue with me when I (ahem) am the one being unreasonable, the fact that we told her that she could go to private college...at our expense...live in dorms and not worry about tuition, room, board, etc OR she could pack up her stuff and go get a job and her own apartment.

That woman is now 41-years old and still thinks that our (my) giving her those choices was being unreasonable!?!? I mean...the tuition ALONE was eighty thousand dollars...two dozen years ago...not including airfare to Europe so she could do a semester abroad! We limited her to Southern Calfornia (or So. Nevada or Arizona) so that commuting costs did not knock the entire endeavor out of economic reach...but there are a lot of colleges and universities around here.

Just like the birthday present...my money, my choice.

And I don't care if she wants to whine about it twenty-four years later.

No ponies, no Bernie. And no sitting around figuring out what to do with your life.

Do you need a 50 year old son? I am very lovable and do not argue too much.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Do you need a 50 year old son? I am very lovable and do not argue too much.

Hey! To pull this off, I decided that you can't tell a kid to go to college when YOU haven't finished. I went back to school, changed careers and went to her college every month and, essentially, handed over my entire paycheck...for four years...PLUS, we paid off the student loans she took out.

Anyway, no. If I adopted you, you'd probably bitch about my sending YOU to Europe, too

 

[DianaCox]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57984499e4b0d3568f852c28?

 

[southernlady]

Hey! To pull this off, I decided that you can't tell a kid to go to college when YOU haven't finished. I went back to school, changed careers and went to her college every month and, essentially, handed over my entire paycheck...for four years...PLUS, we paid off the student loans she took out.

Anyway, no. If I adopted you, you'd probably bitch about my sending YOU to Europe, too

By that logic, both dh and I could have told our daughters to GO to college. Neither went but are working in jobs they love.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

By that logic, both dh and I could have told our daughters to GO to college. Neither went but are working in jobs they love.

That's cool...but MiniSue had no driving desire to do anything...no plans...no "I really want to try ____" goals. Given that, she could do MY thing, on my dime, or HER thing, on her dime.

 

[hilary1617]

I like the "my thing on my dime, your thing on your dime" concept. I will save that for repeated future use!