Whirlwind

...so I was sleeping soundly this morning, dreaming about something that I don't remember right now, really into it, and the phone rings.

An automated voice that sounded like a lady talking with a mouthful of crackers told me: "This is the school calling to inform you that there will be no school today due to the possibility of snow."

I hung up the phone. That was good to know. It would be even better to know if I had a kid that went to that school. I don't.

Then, in the misty mist of sleepiness, it dawned on me...

Now just wait a minute here! I sat upright in bed. They're going to cancel school because it MIGHT snow???

MIGHT snow???

When I was a kid, it would be coming down outside, flakes as big as baseballs, and they'd still make us stay until the end of the day. I had to stand at the bus stop for two hours before hearing that there was a two-hour delay! I had to walk to school, ten miles, in snow up to my chest, uphill both ways! On Christmas Day, they let us out for a half-hour to open our Christmas gifts, then we had to go back to class!

Now...in this day and age, they're canceling school because it MIGHT snow?

...Yeeeeesh.

'snot fair!

Boanerges

I can remember standing in pouring, freezing rain for a half an hour waiting on the bus- our kids have it made!

Whirlwind

I remember one time standing at the bus stop in the rain. This guy pulled over and started to roll down his window and I got ready to run away from this bad person...

"It's Saturday!" he yelled at me.

Jax

Back in my day ,when we lived in a shoe box in corner of mill, and rats were as big as small ponies, and we all shared half a slice of bread for a week!
You'd have to be from northern england to understand the funny side of this!

violet

Pastor Gary

50 years ago, a child would be awakened on a school morning by Mom, who had already been up for two hours doing household tasks. The child would sit down to a hot breakfast with Mom, Dad and the rest of the family and TALK with everyone with family respect, love and bonding. Then, the child would either walk to school on safe sidewalks or take a school bus and sit QUIETLY and study while in route. On Worship Day, the entire family would get their good clothes on and attend church together.

Today, in many cases, the children get themselves up, if they get up at all, they wolf down a Pop Tart and drive to school with their own car ( if 16 or older) and talk on their cell phone all the way to their classroom. They can't walk to school because they might get shot in a drive-by gang shooting. They never see the rest of the family because "Mom" or "Dad" are working all the time and are taking part in the 'social scene' with friends after work. Single parent households are common and the children have no family role models to identify with. Children in many cases today have no concept of God, goodness or righteous values because their parents and grandparents are much too busy to care about teaching the young these days.

The strong values that defined the family 50 to 100 years ago have all but disappeared and have been replaced with a singleness and an "I want everything for me" attitude filled with dislikes and bitterness.

The family that DOES continue the traditions of Family from times gone by, is indeed, rare these days.

Boanerges

The liberal agenda to free this nation from God is spawning a godless generation.

Whirlwind

I also remember back in school, one of the elders came in and taught us how to sing "Yes, Jesus loves me!" in Indian.

Can't do that today. Yeesh, they're even trying to take the words "Under God" out of the Pledge!

A couple of years ago, my nephew got kicked out of Good News, and he was told never to come back!

(shows how rotten my nephew was to make the Good News lady that angry, he he he)

I still tease him about it today: Michael, remember when you were so rotten that you got kicked out of Good News?

He gets a kick out of it (he has tamed down quite a bit).

violet

Whirlwind

And speaking of kids these days...

My nephew told me recently that they don't have to shower anymore after P.E. (okay, now, that's just gross!)

They get to chose pizza or burritos for lunch. We never got that choice. It was either eat what we got or go hungry.

They have soda machines in the lobby. Wait a minute...they have a LOBBY now?

The school bus picks them up at the end of the driveway. Now just a cotton-picking...! I had to walk, really, about a mile to the bus stop!

The school supplies list that came out before school started this year included a spell-checker! Yeesh, back in school we had to learn how to spell those words on our own.

They get three warnings. If they're caught text-messaging three times, they get their phones taken away until the end of the day. Wow! If we got caught passing notes, the teacher would read the notes outloud to the entire class!

Kids these days...