maritime interests

[plumerai]

What to tell kids about the Spitzer scandal, per cnn.com

See, when I asked my mom what a hooker was when I was 9, she said, “It’s someone who stands there on the corner and says [fluffing her hair], ‘Hey, sailor.’” That worked just fine for me.

Comments

[siobhan_genie]

Sounds like the kind of response my mom would have given me, had I asked :) I mean, you really don't have to go into gory details at that age.

[c_quilty]

"If they ask," she said, "You say, 'Sadly there are some women who feel that when they have an intimate experience with someone they need to get paid for it. This is something that is not healthy and I don't accept it or condone it."'

[peterbilt_47]

"'It's tough,' Dinkins told CNN. 'I hope that they make a judgment for the girls to go to school in Switzerland or someplace. They shouldn't have to grow up in the face of this.'"

Except, according to the first part of the article, most kids that age are really not terribly phased by it. Aside from the inevitable couple of douchetards, I wouldn't be surprised to find their peers rallying around the Spitzer girls.

[peterbilt_47]

See, I grew up thinking it was cowboys they were interested in. Now I don't feel so bad about not taking riding lessons.

[walkingbytch]

LOL

[leakyandsnort]

Who are these people with news-watching kids?

[asetwoman]

When I first heard the word hooker it was in "Beauty School Dropout" from the Grease soundtrack. I asked my mother what a hooker was, and she said it was a woman who sold her body for money.

"You mean she says things like, 'you can have my arm for five dollars?'"

I don't remember what her response to that was.

[asetwoman]

I think I was still young enough to be rather literal-minded. ;)

[peterbilt_47]

LOL