Coplantor's Completly Creative Cautious and Contemplative Random Banter #109

[Dallas-Dakota]

I find it amazing that parents generally find a way to get more irritating as you get older.

I hope that isn't the continueing case with my parents.

[YPU]

Nha, twobit is probably overstating things a bit. Parent simply generate a specific amount of irritation. This may vary by time of year and similar factors but it is generally quite steady. As you get older you will start to get away from them for longer times. However irritation can not be disposed of without your presence, thus there will be a large amount of surplus irritation when you do see them. Thus prolonging the time you will take to visit them again, creating a never-ending spiral.

[Cristo Meyers]

Well, they do have to find new ways to irritate. I mean, at 25 "clean your room" really doesn't carry the same level of irritation that it does at 12.

[TwoBitWriter]

Well, they do have to find new ways to irritate. I mean, at 25 "clean your room" really doesn't carry the same level of irritation that it does at 12.

It gets better when you do not financially rely on them anymore, so you can basically do the polite equivalent of "Mom, Dad, go **** ********."

[ghost_warlock]

My relationship with my parents improved dramatically when I moved 900+ miles away and only talked to them three or four times a year for four years. I highly recommend this tactic.

[TwoBitWriter]

My relationship with my parents improved dramatically when I moved 900+ miles away and only talked to them three or four times a year for four years. I highly recommend this tactic.

Mine got better and they are only about 30 miles away.

[Dragonrider]

My mother is about six feet away from me.

I actually get along really well with my parents. And I'm one of those people who really, really, really likes kids...maybe it comes from having all the way-younger siblings and cousins. I dunno.

[Coidzor]

ATTACK OF OPPORTUNITY!

Hmm, so they don't use you as a jungle gym and steal your glasses? Because that's totally how they treated me. ...and now they're running the gamut between 5 and 14... Wow. I feel weird now. Not quite old, but... whoa.

V: Constant exposure can definitely dull one's desires. Which is why, though I love my cousins, I am glad I don't seem them as often as I could with living in the same town.

Reproduction is a tangled web of weaving.

[Cristo Meyers]

I think growing up around little children all the time is what tempered me against having children of my own...

[TwoBitWriter]

Yay! Just found out that I get to leave work at 3:00 today!!!!

As opposed to 4:30...

that's in... twenty minutes!

[Coidzor]

Woohoo! Now just avoid the traffic that's going to be gunning for you.

And remember to light the candles for tonight.

[Cristo Meyers]

Traffic's usually not that bad around 3. The closer you get to 4 or 5, though...that's when you get to "Damn I wish I had a grenade launcher" traffic.

[Thufir]

I'd quite like to have children some day. I will be a... strange parent.
And I'm sure, if my parents ever were to pester me about the having of children, it would be a joke on their part.

[Coidzor]

I'm glad I'm the youngest son, so even if I did have kids I wouldn't be carrying on the family line proper-like, so the pressure's off on me. Though that might change after my parents get over their shock at finding out that my oldest bro is a furry and the other one is an engineer.

I really don't want the hopes and dreams for a new generation pinned to me. For one thing, performance anxiety is bad enough as it is...

[TwoBitWriter]

Well, I'm about to leave work, and won't be back until the 30th. I hope everyone has a great and safe holiday week!

[Jibar]

Best go negotiate with the family about when they want waking up.
Christmas Day I become a living alarm clock for them.

...doesn't help that my room ticks incredibly at night.



I'm also thinking of stealing our odd blue Christmas lights for use in my room. They'd give a groovy glow.

[Coidzor]

That sounds like a plan, do it, monsignor.

Au Revoir Monsieur Tooby! Make the Madam ...M-something.

[Rutskarn]

I'm going to go ahead and join the mismatched, off-key choruses of, "Happy Holdiays!"

It's not even close to the 25'th here, but eh. We're international, might as well be now as ever.

[Thufir]

Blasphemy! Everyone should go by British time! And it's still only 10:18pm, so, no Christmas yet.

[mangosta71]

Mmm, new computer. I must call upon all my powers to summon Jibbers to boogie.

[Coidzor]

And now we get ready for a Christmas Dinner that we didn't know about until 20 minutes ago...

and my 2 key is starting to give me troubles.

Anyone else about on the night before christmas, somehow able to get on despite the prepping and schlepping going on around us?

[Dragon555]

Anyone else about on the night before christmas, somehow able to get on despite the prepping and schlepping going on around us?

Ayup! Even though dinner is going to be soon, I'm not really involved in the preparation so I get a chunk o' free time. I just can't believe tomorrow is Thursday, I wonder where the rest of my week went.

[Thufir]

I'm hanging around for at least a bit longer. Got to stay up until after midnight, and say merry christmas, a bit. After that I go to bed, unless something catches my interest.

[Phase]

Anyone else about on the night before christmas, somehow able to get on despite the prepping and schlepping going on around us?

Don't celebrate Christmas ? Just don't go all out. spread goodwill towards your fellow ape-creature, puny human.

[Nychta]

Jeez guys, Christmas is pretty much over already.

I like my parents. I mean, they're good people, and they're usually reasonable with their parenting. There are just some things I can't make them see as reasonable. Like staying up and talking to weird people on the internet whom I've never met.

[Ash08]

^yeah thats the smae way I feel about mine.

[Phase]

I was birthed by a mighty collision, over the eons I congealed into a spherical form. I burned with a fire that didn't die.

I like my parents, though. They're awesome.

[Recaiden]

Jeez guys, Christmas is pretty much over already.

I like my parents. I mean, they're good people, and they're usually reasonable with their parenting. There are just some things I can't make them see as reasonable. Like staying up and talking to weird people on the internet whom I've never met.

Yet, you're still here. And Christmas hasn't even started here.

Merry Christmas.

[Rutskarn]

Yeah, over here, it's not even dinner, Christmas Eve.

I gotta say, I like the holiday. Winter's a bit like one long sea of grey and cold, and Christmas is like this one party that gives you the energy to get through it.

And the generous amount of days off helps, too.

[TwoBitWriter]

Just opened pretty much all of my presents from my wife/in-laws. Tomorrow my side of the family is coming over to my home for Christmas.

So I get one night of playing The Orange Box on my Xbox before having my family over and then leaving for Indiana to stay with Ash's grandmother for four days.

But, a friend is letting me borrow his DS in exchange for borrowing my copy of Fallout 3.

Damn, I'm good.