Ugh, flea, that's awkward. I see their point, but kids are allowed to be kids, especially in their own home. I can see making an effort not to run maybe early in the morning. But during the day, I don't think you owe them anything.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Stephanie - Feb 05, 2012 9:12:08 am PST #20409 of 30001
Trust my rage
brenda m - Feb 05, 2012 9:19:20 am PST #20410 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Also, he can talk to you, but I don't see any reason to subject your kids to that.
Ginger - Feb 05, 2012 9:19:40 am PST #20411 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
All the coverage of Superbowl snacks is making me want nachos or cheese dip or pizza. Something I don't have and don't need, anyway.
Stephanie - Feb 05, 2012 9:20:46 am PST #20412 of 30001
Trust my rage
Oh yeah, he totally does NOT need to talk to your kids.
DavidS - Feb 05, 2012 9:22:44 am PST #20413 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I remember the neighbor of my friend Karen complaining about the sounds of her kids laughing. This was in a neighboring house - not sharing walls or floor/ceiling.
"Gee, I'm so sorry my children's laughter is irritating you at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. I'll quell that immediately! Oh kids! Joy is off the menu today."
askye - Feb 05, 2012 9:25:14 am PST #20414 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I'm reading this to the sounds of the kids running upstairs. It's my landlady and her kids but even so I wouldn't complain about them running around on an afternoon.
Jesse - Feb 05, 2012 9:33:17 am PST #20415 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My parents' next-door neighbor had been out sometimes with the three-year-old at like 5 am, but they figured dad was doing a great favor to his pregnant wife (now no longer pregnant! amazing), so didn't mind.
flea - Feb 05, 2012 9:38:30 am PST #20416 of 30001
information libertarian
Yeah, we are frequently up at 6:30-7 on weekends (as well as during the week - actually, my idiot kids get up earlier on the weekends than during the week when they have to, grrr), and I feel guilty about that, but what can I do? So it was sort of disconcerting to get yelled at at noon.
le nubian - Feb 05, 2012 9:40:43 am PST #20417 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
see, kids laughing - that's beyond the pale.
but I am a loud laugher and my grandmother used to be teased for laughing. I cannot truck people being angry about laughing if it isn't AT someone.
go fuck yourselves anti-laughers.
as far as kids running around, I get it, but if you are in a multiple-family dwelling, you aren't in a monastery, you have to deal with other people.
Zenkitty - Feb 05, 2012 9:42:43 am PST #20418 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
le nubian, you are not crazy. The Tuareg are a nomadic people of the Sahara, for whom, I presume, the car was named.