Comments to Alice in Suburbia:

boxx - 2004-10-17 22:53:52
Those kids are going to get their heads smashed by falling debris. They are supposed to be completely under their desks. Those drills used to scare me to death as a child back in the day.
-------------------------------
Caesar Spritopias - 2004-10-17 23:32:24
Give the woman who doesn't know how to get to the mall my phone number because I think she may be the woman I want to marry.
-------------------------------
radiogurl - 2004-10-18 04:08:53
Your day yesterday is only a slight rearrangement of how I felt today...
-------------------------------
Inkdragon - 2004-10-18 07:41:36
Is that a picture of a drill or is it an uncomfortable nap time? Christopher cracks me up. Your family room sounds like mine but I have to include the hallway outside each bedroom. The hallway is the first stop in the "I've cleaned my room, Mom" sequence. From there it's the family room and then finally the basement. One more thing - don't you love when the hubby's get a bee in their cleaning bonnets they begin to question our time management and cleaning abilities. They don't dare do that when we're cleaning up dirty glasses and leftover Chinese and they're sitting on the couch with a beer, do they? Ummm.
-------------------------------
Poolagirl - 2004-10-18 10:15:31
Sounds like you could use a "Calgon, take me away!" moment.
-------------------------------
Mary - 2004-10-18 18:16:01
I tell my students on a regular basis that we don't say "Shut up" in the classroom or recess or on school grounds. So then they say things like "shut it" and "close your mouth" to each other. We get a lesson on the proper way to speak to each other at least once a week. It HAS gotten better, though...
-------------------------------
Carolyn - 2004-10-19 07:26:04
Your life sounds eerily like mine! It's ironic how funny it is to read about these things happening to someone else, when it's happening to me, all I can think is "LEAVE ME ALONE!"
-------------------------------
Jim - 2004-10-19 17:57:55
Ah, yes, the amazing ability of school desks to provide shelter from atomic explosions... I remember those days well.
-------------------------------
katie d - 2004-10-21 05:41:20
:::HUG::: We were big fans of the "be quiet" at my house, since Mom would not let us say shut up, either. Also, my office is our equivalent of your family room, so so trust me, I know your pain. To make matters worse, my car was the receptical of everything else I had no idea what to do with, and since it got broken into Friday night, I had to take every single item out of it...and find room for it all. So now there are more piles all over a room I had finally cleared the floor in. :( ::sigh:: I will NEVER get ahead in here, I swear. It's a sucking black hole. I hope yours goes much better. And ::hugs:: again. kd
-------------------------------
mkm - 2004-10-21 18:46:16
when i was about 13, my mother and i were going at it and the state of my room. i guess i decided if she wanted it cleaned, i would clean it good. i threw everything in the room into the garbage (clothes, stuffed animals, photos, everything). i was going through puberity, she was going through menopause. i had to live that entire summer in the clothes that were on my back that day and the clothes that happened to be in the basement in the dirty clothes. i had to wash my own clothes that entire summer by hand. my father pulled two things out of the garbage - the doll my mother made me when i was born and my grammer school diploma - all the rest was trashed. i learned a valuable lesson that summer - don't let your temper get the best of you, you might be the person who loses the most. my mother learned that she had a much more stuborn daughter than she ever knew. my father probably just learned that we both a bit nuts ;-).
-------------------------------

Dear Alice:

your name:
your email:
your site:

back to the entry - Diaryland

All comments become the property of Suburban Island.