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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BlueCrab who wrote (10192)	4/23/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

We just returned from Gingriss' Formalwear where CW parted with 100.00 for a tuxedo---Prom Night is May 9. (My baby!) Do you know there wasn't a powder blue one in the shop? And no ruffled shirts? Kids today are so boring! CW picked a very normal-looking Ralph Lauren black with a dark green vest and tie (school colors). He spent his money carefully since he was paying for it and is even wearing his father's shoes to save a few dollars. He had tried on his father's tux, but I vetoed his wearing that---both he and Nicole could have fit in it. It would have been like sending him off dressed in a sleeping bag. Dan was surprised it didn't fit. "The pants are adjustable," he said. Well-yeah. But not from a 37" waist to a 30"..I didn't say that though. There was a guy at the shop picking up his tux for his brother's wedding. Gray tails with a Mickey Mouse vest. On the way home,I said to the boys, "I'm not sure his brother is taking his marriage vows seriously enough." CW says, "Isn't marriage supposed to be fun?" I say, sensing an excellent teaching opportunity about life's values, "Well, yes, but when the excitement and sex wear off, a lot of young people think the marriage is over when really it's just begun." Silence. "The sex wears off?" "Well, I mean, it doesn't completely wear off. It just isn't the only thing you think about." "It's the only thing I think about," says Ammo from the back seat. "What's the point then?" asks CW. "Well-it's not that bad..it's just-well-marriage is hard work. It's a commitment, a job," I say. "Does Dad know you feel like this about sex?" asks CW, concerned. "Does Daddy know you think living with him is hard work?" " says Ammo, upset. I do not intend to discuss my sex life with my teenage sons. I am silent. "I'm going to tell him you said that," CW threatens. "I didn't say that about Daddy. I didn't mean it goes away completely! Just that real life gets in the way! You're tired! You get other things on your mind." I can feel this one really slipping away from me. "Boy, poor Dad," CW shakes his head. "This subject is gross," says Ammo. I think so too. Whose idea was it, anyway. They can learn about marriage the way we all do-hard experience

To: BlueCrab who wrote (10192)	4/25/1998 1:39:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

you missed taht painfully abrupt transition from the pre-60s 60s to the post-60s 70s. Sometimes I think life owes me a decade... Taht must be why we all smoked pot. To ease the painful transition. Penni's morphing into Rambi in 3D, picking fights in the express lane. A sign of growth, proof that SI has opened new vistas for the previously shy and retiring P. She stopped short of cutting the mouthy broad's nose off, but maybe she will make the national news next time.