Sparky, you did the right thing. She's just pissed about being called out on being an unethical beeyotch.
Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.
'Why We Fight'
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.
smonster - Feb 15, 2012 5:04:01 am PST #22046 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
DavidS - Feb 15, 2012 5:08:42 am PST #22047 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. Perhaps my wedding plan to have my bride ride a T-Rex requires some fine-tuning....
Especially since Marc Bolan is dead. I guess she could ride a zombie Marc Bolan, but that doesn't sound particularly elegant.
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2012 5:08:45 am PST #22048 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hell, you were being nice doing it off list. I might not have.
I think maybe if you can't ride a horse you're more likely to think it's a deeply romantic thing to do for your wedding, but then it's also a much more unpredictable thing to happen on a fraught enough day anyway. If you seriously need your horse led that 20 feet, Nellie has no place in your wedding day.
Toddson - Feb 15, 2012 5:12:39 am PST #22049 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Or possibly find a very calm horse.
Jessica - Feb 15, 2012 5:12:52 am PST #22050 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
overnights with her 2 kids three nights a week (she's a nurse) for $5/hour
Jesus. That would be criminal even if it weren't, you know, actually criminal.
(Granted, most of the nannies I know are paid under the table, but at legal-except-for-the-tax-dodge-thing wages. And with contracts.)
§ ita § - Feb 15, 2012 5:18:18 am PST #22051 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't believe in a calm enough horse that will trump you evidently not knowing how to ride in any useful manner. Not one that will actually go anywhere.
Where was her groom in that scenario? Standing behind the beast? Nice.
Wait--was she marrying a human?
brenda m - Feb 15, 2012 5:21:37 am PST #22052 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
I guess I don't get the big deal. She stayed on it.
Sparky1 - Feb 15, 2012 5:30:00 am PST #22053 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Hell, you were being nice doing it off list. I might not have.
I looked up her other posts and she generally participates reasonably in the give/take of the list. So I decided to be kind.
Jesus. That would be criminal even if it weren't, you know, actually criminal.
The argument seems to be that since s/he'd be sleeping for a number of those hours, they shouldn't count. Also, she's a single mother and this is all she can afford. There are so many issues here, and I honestly sympathize, but none of it adds up to $5/hour being okay.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 15, 2012 5:33:38 am PST #22054 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think I am stuck in a minimum wage mindset where it is $3.35 an hour, and I used to get paid $2 an hour to babysit! Of course, that was in 1988.
le nubian - Feb 15, 2012 5:34:59 am PST #22055 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
understood that is all she can afford cash wise, but then why not think of a barter arrangement?
or a babysitting co-op?