You know, Penni, I think Janice is right when she says children don't even think of telling their parents much!! I don't think it occurred to me at all to discuss the sad saga of the substitute teacher with mine, even though both my parents were educators. In fact, the memory was so painful that I buried it, and didn't remember it until several years later.
I wonder why children don't communicate more!! I suspect my own child feels the same way, even though I sure talk about my feelings a lot, trying to be a very good example. I probably overdid it or something!!! I can remember being 13, and feeling that my parents had absolutely no knowledge or experience that would be helpful to me. I felt like I was foraging a new path through the wilderness. Somehow seeing them with their uncool clothes and the beginnings of wrinkles was enough to convince me that they had NOTHING I needed.
Boy, I'm sure glad you didn't come to my house to serve those grape jelly balls. I had four boys and three girls here, having their very own Super Bowl party. Thank goodness the tv room is on another floor!! Soda was spilled, a mixed bowl of Cheetos and M&M's was consumed, and a huge kingsized bed was totally stripped of its designer sheet/pillow/coverlet ensemble so they could all hunker down together on the bare mattress (why, Penni, what are they thinking about)? Hot toothpick munchies in gravy would have ended up on the walls, I bet.
One boy somehow escaped, and ended up outside ringing the front doorbell. I guess he trampled a huge bamboo plant to get out of the backyard, but I don't want to think about that right now.
My husband told me the girls made one of the boys put on make-up! He remarked that the girls seemed to be in charge of the boys!!! Gee, I must have been more subtle than I thought over the last 17 years, because it seemed like real news to him!!!
Oh well!!! Incidentally, I agree with you about Planes, Trains and Automobiles. There were tons of love, friendship and acceptance in that movie. I'm just afraid that when I present a comedy that way, everyone will think it's mushy, which it definitely wasn't, and not see it. I miss John Candy so much!!! He made lots of very bad movies, but this wasn't one of them, and I wish he had lived a lot longer.
Christine |
