Comments | sapphoid: reminiscing with my sisters

sapphoid

reminiscing with my sisters

Dec 04, 2008 10:59

My sisters and I have been engaging in some very entertaining reminiscing today via email. I'm not sure how it started but we ended up listing all the many injuries and death-defying situations I found myself in throughout my childhood ( Read more... )

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livingdeadpan December 5 2008, 00:17:29 UTC

"I remember feeling panicked inside but on the outside I was calm and pro-active. Maybe all the stuff in my childhood had something to do with that. "

I think it's just an intrinsic parent thing. You can't freak out, because it'll make the kid freak out and things get worse. But it does help that you'd seen it all before.

sapphoid December 5 2008, 19:07:15 UTC

I am confident that you will not impale your children, leave them on the freeway or any other of the Howard Williams Fathering Practices scenarios. However, there is still so much that can happen even if a parent is being their most careful, and now you posess that magical intrinsic parent thing. So when one or both of your boys climb into the oven and you are running over to them, ever fiber of your being screaming "oh nooo! my head is exploding with the immenseness of this emergency"... you will surely simply remove them from the oven, brush off the tiny charred pieces of their clothing and calmly explain to them why this is not a good idea. Fun! :-)

Left at a rest area crooked_hill December 5 2008, 00:35:04 UTC

I thought it was bad that my dad left me at a rest area when I was 14 - he didn't realize I had gotten out of the van - didn't bother to check either.

Re: Left at a rest area sapphoid December 5 2008, 19:08:34 UTC

oh sheesh, that's bad if they don't check. Hopefully, it was least a rest area with good stuff in the candy vending machine, and you with a pocket full of quarters!

deadmanicure December 5 2008, 23:46:18 UTC

oh holy, that is a crazy list! thanks for posting it - i felt a little guilty as i totally cracked up.

"He picked me up, plucked the board off my back and set me back on the ground instead." HA!

sapphoid December 5 2008, 23:56:31 UTC

oh, no, please do feel free to crack up, my sisters alwasy do!
The funny thing is that my Dad, bless his heart, took even worse care of himself. He once cut his thumb almost all the way through and sort of stuck it back on, wrapped it up and waited for it to "grow back together". He kept insisting that it would and we were all sure it would turn green and fall off. But sure enough, it was fine after a few weeks. He's some sort of warped pioneer man or something, I'm lucky I'm alive today :-)