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

To: Gauguin who wrote (12439)	9/15/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Class reunion--- Ahhh-that reminds me of my Junior-Senior Prom-1965. The theme was 10000 Leagues Under the Sea--lots of green and blue crepe paper and balloons. The next year it was Days of Wine and Roses-lots of red and pink crepe paper and balloons-life was so simple then. Anyway, this nice Senior named Chet, who later was a newsman for CNN, asked me to go and the very next day Chris, the boy I ADORED, asked me and my mother made me go with Chet because he asked first and that was "the right thing to do". Then Chris had the brilliant idea of our double dating, which was awful. I spent the entire night crushing my gorgeous, white, satin, long, full, spaghetti-strapped gown into a bathroom stall covered with graffiti that was not even particularly clever, just misspelled, sobbing my eyes out and replacing my mascara. This was the Kiwanis Club Lodge in Rockbridge COunty, Va. what could you expect? Anyway-I suppose you're wondering -does this have any relevance to the topic at hand or is penni just rocking and knitting and nattering? But I was thinking about how we were raised to "do the right thing". And that although sometimes the right thing makes no sense, and was completely stupid, like making girls go with the first person who asks them, many times it gets us through some situations where we're none too clear in our thinking, and it avoids a lot of chaos and hurt and confusion. Are we teaching our children the right things? I don't think young peoppe are always mature enough to understand abstract and situational kinds of moralities and thinking. Don't they need a strong basis from which to explore alternatives? The 60s on has raised children backwards---thinking that they'll work from the generalities to the specifics. Maybe it's not as effective? Just thinking and drinking, wondering where the Porta-Potty is.