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  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    i wonder if we can poke the tube thing with a pin and have it deflate?
  • laura
    laura
    I wonder if I should admit that I'd like to stab it with my floral Pylones box cutter.
  • ljnd
    ljnd
    I wonder why my cat is wearing a lime.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    i wonder why you don't know it's a pummelo
  • ljnd
    ljnd
    brooklynpotter wrote: i wonder why you don't know it's a pummelo
    !!! I have the wrong cat!!!!
  • peanuts
    peanuts
    I wonder why Obamanut lives here when he seems to hate the neighborhood and the people who live here (and why he cares how much people spend). I've been here over 30 years...if I hated it as much as he appears to, I would move.

    I wonder why most PS supermarkets have such narrow aisles.
  • bkchickie
    bkchickie
    sweet tea wrote: i wonder why, when my college students get in trouble, i end up talking to their mothers.

    i would have died a thousand deaths before asking my mother to get me out of trouble in college.
    You're kidding me, right? Next we'll be reading about these kids parents calling their bosses and asking for a promotion.
  • brooke lynn knight
    brooke lynn knight
    brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper]I wonder why I never see any Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts around this neighborhood. don't kids around here join those organizations anymore?
    are there boy scouts in PS? that would surprise me

    Yes, there are. I bought a lovely Xmas tree from them at JJ Byrne* this December. The guy in charge noticed my 3-year-old boy and told me that the troop meets at JJ Byrne periodically, and invited me & my kid to look into the Boy Scouts when he's old enough.

    *I'll call it "Washington Park" when I start calling 6th Ave "Avenue of the Americas." In other words, when I'm ice skating in Hell.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    BKChickie wrote: [quote=sweet tea]i wonder why, when my college students get in trouble, i end up talking to their mothers.

    i would have died a thousand deaths before asking my mother to get me out of trouble in college.
    You're kidding me, right? Next we'll be reading about these kids parents calling their bosses and asking for a promotion.

    not kidding. and the latest one wasn't even a freshman.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    ^^ A friend of mine is an HR director for a large hotel in NC and she tells me you wouldn't believe how many people in college or just out of college have their moms call up inquiring about jobs or interviews. It's appalling!
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    they want their kid out of the house.
    ...its only appalling if you hire a kid based on their mother's recommendation.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    Brooke Lynn Knight wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter][quote=LongTimeSloper]I wonder why I never see any Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts around this neighborhood. don't kids around here join those organizations anymore?
    are there boy scouts in PS? that would surprise me

    Yes, there are. I bought a lovely Xmas tree from them at JJ Byrne* this December. The guy in charge noticed my 3-year-old boy and told me that the troop meets at JJ Byrne periodically, and invited me & my kid to look into the Boy Scouts when he's old enough.

    *I'll call it "Washington Park" when I start calling 6th Ave "Avenue of the Americas." In other words, when I'm ice skating in Hell.

    BTW, it is still called JJ Byrne Playground, but the rear section where the dog run and skate park, etc. are is now called Washington Park. So, you are correct in still calling it JJ Byrne.
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    whynot_31 wrote: they want their kid out of the house.
    ...its only appalling if you hire a kid based on their mother's recommendation.
    She never did. But, it is still appalling, i would never ever call up a place inquiring about a job that my over 18 year old child has applied for!
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    LongTimeSloper wrote: [quote=Brooke Lynn Knight][quote=brooklynpotter][quote=LongTimeSloper]I wonder why I never see any Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts around this neighborhood. don't kids around here join those organizations anymore?
    are there boy scouts in PS? that would surprise me

    Yes, there are. I bought a lovely Xmas tree from them at JJ Byrne* this December. The guy in charge noticed my 3-year-old boy and told me that the troop meets at JJ Byrne periodically, and invited me & my kid to look into the Boy Scouts when he's old enough.

    *I'll call it "Washington Park" when I start calling 6th Ave "Avenue of the Americas." In other words, when I'm ice skating in Hell.

    BTW, it is still called JJ Byrne Playground, but the rear section where the dog run and skate park, etc. are is now called Washington Park. So, you are correct in still calling it JJ Byrne.


    But what do I call the bridge that goes to three Boroughs?
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    LongTimeSloper wrote: [quote=whynot_31]they want their kid out of the house.
    ...its only appalling if you hire a kid based on their mother's recommendation.
    She never did. But, it is still appalling, i would never ever call up a place inquiring about a job that my over 18 year old child has applied for!

    you will if your kid is still at home at age 26.

    ...I'm not saying it will work.
    I'm not not saying you SHOULD.
    I'm just saying parents will do anything -no matter how tacky- to get their kids out of the house.
  • brooke lynn knight
    brooke lynn knight
    laura wrote: I wonder who invented the ... crap, I have no idea what it's called, those big inflatable horrifying tube things that thrash around and people think it's good advertising. Currently there's a purple one on 5th Avenue in front of a new cell phone (I think) store.

    I wonder if a single person has ever gone into a store on account of being mesmerized by one of those inflatable tube things.
    I always call them "Air Dudes," but Al Harrington has another name:



  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    whynot_31 wrote: [quote=LongTimeSloper][quote=whynot_31]they want their kid out of the house.
    ...its only appalling if you hire a kid based on their mother's recommendation.
    She never did. But, it is still appalling, i would never ever call up a place inquiring about a job that my over 18 year old child has applied for!

    you will if your kid is still at home at age 26.

    ...I'm not saying it will work.
    I'm not not saying you SHOULD.
    I'm just saying parents will do anything -no matter how tacky- to get their kids out of the house.

    No, I have older children and, no, I would not do that. Not as long as they worked a full time job, paid bills and otherwise acted like a responsible adult and we had the room, it wouldn't matter to me
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    and if the child was a slacker?
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    whynot_31 wrote: and if the child was a slacker?
    I wouldn't raise a slacker ;) , my kids have jobs when they are early teens and know the deal is after 18, full time school or full time work. We don't baby our kids. And, yes, I have an older child who is over 20, full time job, pays bills, lives at home, etc. etc.

    But, slacker is a different story, you didn't say slacker to begin with ;)
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    true. but you had already said you would never call, so you are not being questioned.

    And, I (correctly, I might point out) assume that parents who would call a child's potential employer have in fact raised slacker children. Afterall, entitled people tend to raise entitled children.

    And I can't think of many acts that are more entitled than thinking that someone should hire your kid because you called them...

    this is likely more of a rant than a "I Wonder"
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    It's this new thing called helicopter parenting, the parents think it is their job to be their entire lives for their kids instead of bringing the kids up to learn how to be productive, active, adults. these parents are still doing everything for their child well into their 20s and must make some mother in laws when and if the time comes!
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    OK, back on topic...


    I wonder why there aren't more men's clothing store around here
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    I believe I have seen these helicopters locally. In the cases I have seen, I believe it is because the parents have no lives of their own (or unresolved ones), and attempt to get lives through their kids.

    Helicopters tend to be very unstable, and have no redundancy systems.

    ...they crash in large winds.
    ....and can be shot down easily.

    If you are twisted (evil?), such things are sometimes fun to watch when you don't know (or simply don't like...) the people involved.

    http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=helicopter+crash&gbv=2
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    i wonder why someone would hold meetings for part-time employees who all work M/TH or T/F on freakin' Wednesdays? i wonder what they think we do on wednesdays, sit around being independently wealthy?
  • ringrunner
    ringrunner
    LongTimeSloper wrote: OK, back on topic...


    I wonder why there aren't more men's clothing store around here
    Oh yea, I need a simple pair of black pants bad. Just had a crappy experience at Old Navy and Burlington Coat Factory. I would pay twice as much to just go to where the Häagen-Dazs is now and buy a pair of pants!
  • longtimesloper
    longtimesloper
    ring, go to square stores on 5th Avenue and 8th Street, they will have black pants for you. We shop there sometimes.

    I wonder if my younger kid and ring's kid will still be friends when they are teens and who will buy the beer? LOL
  • eggcream
    eggcream
    I wonder why the dead cow head is gone replaced by Pam Anderson's skanky boob.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    I wonder how large a boob can be before most consider it un-attractive.

    ...her's are clearly freaky.
  • obamanut
    obamanut
    Peanuts wrote: I wonder why Obamanut lives here when he seems to hate the neighborhood and the people who live here (and why he cares how much people spend). I've been here over 30 years...if I hated it as much as he appears to, I would move.

    I wonder why most PS supermarkets have such narrow aisles.
    I have several reasons preventing me from moving at the moment. And I don't "care" about how much people spend; rather, it's entertainment to me. I am like the Jane Goodall of Park Slope, taking great pleasure in trying to make sense of a community that's incapable of seeing itself from the outside, through the eyes of an objective, rational observer.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    i wonder what brilliant clever things people will come up with in response to "i am the jane goodall of park slope".

    that is classic.
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