A new world; That is how it felt in the backseat with a safety belt. Voices I heard and the faces I seen not only me but the windshield screen. A garbled mass of guttural sounds while we were going through towns. Thinking back they seemed nice but not like sugar and spice. They must have been talking as I was there only gawking. It was the time before I knew words that converse to you. A fond memory; I still carry as upon this earth I tarry. My childhood's faint memory when everything was sensory. It is now just forbearance; the dawn of my remembrance.
George Washington said that cussing was a sign of a person with a limited vocabulary. Sometimes a well place curse word can be a be a clear meaning to a feeling. It can be the company that one keeps but then there is a time and place for everything. Using an overused cuss word can lessen its desired effect. It can become like a cliche. It can become like the term, "Know what I mean", when in fact the other person has really no idea what you might mean. One can improve one's vocabulary and come up with words that can express the same thing as a cuss word.
Good point. I drove a school bus for two years. We were told not to touch the kids. I had 70 kids on the bus and just me. I was responsible for driving the bus and being responsible for 70 kids because it was a 70 passenger bus. You have to make a choice of watching the road like most people in vehicles do or watch to make sure the kids were behaving. It was nice to get the added mirrors all around and the new radio. In some states they have bus monitors that go with the drivers. Most kids would behave but after a pep rally, oh my, what terror it could become. A driver had to get their bluff in from the first day with the kids. The driver is responsible from the school to home and vice versa. Then there was the seat belt issue on buses of whether they should have them or not. From experience I think monitors should be mandatory when the kids safety is factored in.
My kids learned at a faster rate than me. I can remember when I first got a computer. I brought it home and my wife was scared the kids would access the internet. I showed it to my daughter and she said if I needed help just to ask her, lol. She was 8 at the time. My son already knew DOS and he was 14. This was in 1995. We had people who successfully hacked into the college data bank to get answers. The educators had to be smarter than the students. We used to love to play stump the educators until they told us that it our time we wasting not theres. They said they were getting paid regardless but if we wanted to be ready for a carreer we had better pay attention.
A good educator can make the difference in one's learning. I actually had some classes that I enjoyed going to. Some of the stuff I actually could remember from those classes. I had one teacher that even made history interesting. One teacher, when I took Algebra told me to think of it as my money. That made sense to me. I always had a love for books. It was fun to get lost in the stories. I can remember SRS helped me to retain things I had learned. I never had a chance to get hooked on phonics but I thought it would have been cool.
I was always impressed with the I don't know answer on the college exams. Socrates impressed me because he was a gadfly. He went around to see if people actually knew what they were talking about. He dranked some poison for being a royal pain. I thought the trial of Socrates was interesting.
I am interested in other people's opinions. I already know mine. Some of my opinions though have changed since coming onto the forums. There is a wealth of ideas, topics and experiences to be derived from the forums.
I have been at a restaurant where all the servers quit the same day and tipped the manager, lol. I was at this one restaurant where all the servers were having a bad day. It was a lot like Alice's restaurant, lol. The you get the pleasure of when the busses come in, lol, and the servers are running like in a mad house to try to catch up. It can get hilarious although I know the servers are not having a good time. Where is my coffee? Hey what do you have to do to get a cup of coffee in here? My steak is not cooked all the way. I didn't order mash potatoes; I wanted french fries. Where is the manager? I want to talk to the manager. We will take our desert now, lol.
I have tipped because my ex was a waitress. Waitresses were making less than minium wage and the tips were like everything. In some restaurants the restaurant even get a cut on the tips taken. Some waitresses have a collective tip deal where the tips are divided among the waitresses. There are waitresses/waiters that are prompt with refilling your drinks. There are those servers who know what you are going to order because some people order the same thing repeatedly. Good service is a good thing to reward. Those are those good waiteresses/waiters that get paid in tips that make it their business to please to get that tip and they really work for it.
I hear ya, there. I just got a call from direct tv. The bill was a 107 dollars. I paid 57 dollars so then it showed I paid which only 144 dollars to pay on the remaining 50 dollars that was owed. I thought 107 minus 57 would equal 50. How dumb of me. They said yes but there is the late charge, the disconnect fee, the equipment cost and the readjustment cost which brings it to be 144 dollars owed. I told the guy on the phone I am employed now. He said yes but is there anyway you can pay on your bill. I said yes I could hold up a bank or steal something. Maybe I should say hey wait a minute maybe I could open a Meth lab. Just let me go out and sell some drugs and I will be right back with you. He said thank you sir and hanged up.
I think a good virtual life partner could come in handy. I could see how that could be preferred over an bad actual life partner. I climbed into the computer a long time ago. Every once in a while I like to come out of the box and check up on the real world. A real world experience can be an escape and so can a virtual world be an escape. Stuck in the middle can be a real trip. I hope you have better luck next time with a real world experience.
Great point. One may not be ready to commit but one might be ready to date, though. I look at this as dating versus courting. In courting one might not be permitted to say hey I have had second thoughts. In dating one might equally say hey I had a good time but not a great time. In other words, "Don't call me I will call you." I prefer Wicked's earlier statement though with the honest approach of, "I don't think you are right for me." I know I am paraphrasing a lot, sorry, but I think one can get the drift of it.
Oh ok. Thanks for the warning. I don't what came over me. I must have had a nut flash back. I know once you get started it is hard to quit. It must have been the mixed nuts.
Must be a delicious drink. I am reminded of big snake in the movie the Jungle Book. Look into my eyes, lol. I love the way that snake said deliciousus, lol. I think maybe a good fruit cake might help me to gt over this nut hangover.
That sounds delicious. You lucky stiff to just live in the jungle and just picks the nuts off the trees like that. I am sure you must like bannanas with nuts. I can just see a McDonald's in the jungle. Would you like nuts with that?
Oh, wow, you really are an intelligent lady. You are doing a great service even to those you turn down by giving them a real reason. That is really awesome. I have issues I have had to work on. I can understand the validity of that. My ex said we had unresolved issues. I have had the pleasure of reading the forums to gain insight into those issues. You are saving guys needless time of chasing after you when you are honest with them telling why you do not return their affection. That is very mature.
So what do you think of Duncan Heinz now, lol? I am partial to Hershey's, lol. Although I still have this crush for Betty Crocker, lol. I really do like chocolate. Nestle makes the very best chocolate. I was making sense earlier today, lol.
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I know once you get started it is hard to quit. It must have been the mixed nuts. 
RE: How do you define "Equality"?
I define it as a partnership.