Someone just suggested that calling me a Communist it's a joke Ancien $4.25 Par Heure ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deb Bledsoe" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:25 PM Subject: Re: parental vice, females absent > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:05:24 EDT, Met History <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > [snip] I extend thanks to all (or at least all males, > > since females obviously too busy to worry about phone bills) for your > > kind help and thoughts on matter. > > well, hey, I finally had a chance to sit down and read the last couple > weeks of BP, and here's what THIS girl thinks about phone bills etc: > > I think it would be _swell_ if you bought me a ford falcon to replace my > crappy little rice burner, that despite having close to 200K miles on it > and having been "totalled" at christmas by a NY taxi, was still faithfully > carrying me, my dog and cat, my co-workers, piles of 10'-0" treated lumber, > bags of edison trash, pressure washers and toolboxes, and all sorts of > other miscellaneous stuff hither and yon, back and forth, and up and down > the highway until I inattentively drove it right up the rear end of a big > ole dodge week before last... > > I also think that BOY should pay his phone bill and not gripe, as there are > grown MEN and WOMEN in the NYC area who bring home a heck of a lot less > than $450 a week doing jobs like cleaning up dog crap from the city > sidewalks and trimming bushes and grubbing out lawns and emptying bedpans > and grinding mortar out of joints on buildings in the summer heat and etc > etc etc, but yet somehow manage to pay carfare and ridiculous rents and > doctor bills and buy groceries and send most of their money home to support > families, and then STILL pay their own phone bills to call their PARENTS > in whatever third world state or country they came here from to labor, like > say, kentucky or mississippi, if not tajihkistan or honduras... > > BOY needs to realize that $10/hour BEFORE taxes is the going rate for many > if not most of the people who labor intensely to make this country the > pleasant place it is, and that the minimum wage is still less than > $6/hour... > > that said, I also think it would not be too awful if PARENT then loaned BOY > money at 2% above prime to complete summer plans, and got the repayment > terms in writing this time, so as to avoid future misunderstandings about > who is paying for what, when... fair enough? > > perhaps PARENT could then present BOY the option to "work off" the debt by > compensating him at minimum wage to do volunteer work as was suggested > earlier, as opposed to _forcing_ him to do volunteer work as > a "punishment"... leave it up to the BOY to decide whether he would rather > find a higher paying job on his own in order to pay off PARENT... > > suggest if he defaults, PARENT sic his SISTER on him ;) > > best to all, from > deb "now riding fat-burner instead of driving rice-burner" bledsoe > > girl project co-ordinator, of late privileged to work with the best > > -- > To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the > uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: > <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>