Doug's stupid ex-wife plays Mr. Wilson of "Dennis the Menace"

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 09:43 PM
DOUG'S STUPID EX-WIFE, #03 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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We have a few families boarding their horses here.

They come once or twice a day to ride or to otherwise tend to their horses. Today, I heard a funny motor, look out the door and see a little dune buggy full of kids go by. It looked just like that old PlaySchool bus, full of kids, only it was a dune buggy. Being driven by a kid who turns out to be 11.

When I went out to run interference, I counted 10 kids, the youngest two, and zero adults. They weren't even in earshot of their dad, let alone, in his sight. On top of everything else, it was getting DARK. I wanted to deck the idiot, badly.

So I had the driver park the thing and we all walked back up and over the hill to the area where the father keeps his animals. I let them walk down on their own because I was too angry to talk to the guy at that moment.

Who does things like this. Seriously, ten kids, the oldest one eleven, driving alone on hills at dusk in an overloaded dune buggy with no adult supervision.

Oh my again.

Yes, yes, that's very bad.

However.

However.

However.

Doug's stupid ex-wife has two sons in the slammer, and so one wonders how well their mother supervised them.

virgogal  (1000+ posts)      Thu Nov-04-10 09:48 PM
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1. Casual parenting. We had them in our neighborhood and the kids survived and did quite well,much to my surprise.

I was the cautious type and never could understand it.

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 10:01 PM
DOUG'S STUPID EX-WIFE, #03 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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6. My mom was one of those.

And, that's cool, we grew up. I started babysitting at 11, too. CPS wasn't as active then, either.

virgogal  (1000+ posts)      Thu Nov-04-10 10:24 PM
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10. It's funny,isn't it? There is really no right way to raise kids. You love them and do your best and keep your fingers crossed for years.

elleng  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 09:49 PM
THE PRIMITIVE WHO'S ABOUT A GENERATION OLDER THAN franksolich THOUGHT SHE WAS
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2. No sane person, that's fer sure.

Catch any bumper-stickers?

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 09:56 PM
DOUG'S STUPID EX-WIFE, #03 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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4. They didn't even all belong to that one dad.

He rounded up some kids to come out here, which is fine. Not fine to pack them all into a dune buggy and wave 'em off.

Good googly moogly.

WhiteTara  (1000+ posts)       Thu Nov-04-10 09:49 PM
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3. something similar happened where I used to live

one child died and one was paralyzed forever. The kids in our area were on an atv. The parents of course were shattered, but that didn't change a thing

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 09:58 PM
DOUG'S STUPID EX-WIFE, #03 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #3

5. Omg. That's exactly what I was afraid of when I saw them.

Kids get hurt all the time playing. I think I spent every Sunday in 1987 in the Kaiser ER with one of my boys and their noses and knees and arms and ears. But this was just flat out spitting at the sky.

Tansy_Gold  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 10:08 PM
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7. Years ago where I used to live, three accidents

1. Father and his two kids out on ATVs. Father was drunk, two kids were maybe 8 and 11. No helmets, riding like morons. Father flipped his and rolled down a ravine. Broke his neck, died instantly. Kids had to haul the body out and take it home because they didn't think they could find their way back to the ravine.

2. 22-year-old in an old Ford Bronco goin' down the freeway, 75 mph. Just about this time of the year, right before Thanksgiving. Blew a tire and rolled a couple times. No seat belt. Did not survive.

3. A few weeks later, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. 18-year-old in an old Ford Bronco goin' down the freeway, 65 mph. Blew a tire and rolled a couple times. Had his seat belt on. Walked away with scratches on his shoulder from broken windshield glass. My son.

[true_blood]

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 09:43 PM
DOUG'S STUPID EX-WIFE, #03 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Original message
We have a few families boarding their horses here. They come once or twice a day to ride or to otherwise tend to their horses. Today, I heard a funny motor, look out the door and see a little dune buggy full of kids go by. It looked just like that old PlaySchool bus, full of kids, only it was a dune buggy. Being driven by a kid who turns out to be 11. When I went out to run interference, I counted 10 kids, the youngest two, and zero adults. They weren't even in earshot of their dad, let alone, in his sight. On top of everything else, it was getting DARK. I wanted to deck the idiot, badly. So I had the driver park the thing and we all walked back up and over the hill to the area where the father keeps his animals. I let them walk down on their own because I was too angry to talk to the guy at that moment. Who does things like this. Seriously, ten kids, the oldest one eleven, driving alone on hills at dusk in an overloaded dune buggy with no adult supervision.

Could this be why the DUmmies and liberals would LOVE for the gubberment to tell parents how to "parent" their kids. For example, no more Happy Meals in San Fransicko.

[BannedFromDU]

     Waiiiiit. Beth has two kids in the joint? Really?

[franksolich]

     Waiiiiit. Beth has two kids in the joint? Really?

Yeah.

One's been there and is out now; one's still in there.

I thought this was common knowledge.

They're her only children, by her first husband (i.e., not by Doug).

[true_blood]

What were/are they in the clink for?

[franksolich]

What were/are they in the clink for?

Selling drugs.

[BannedFromDU]

Selling drugs.

     What a great parent she is.

[BlueStateSaint]

     What a great parent she is.

The apple don't fall far from the tree, does it?

[true_blood]

Selling drugs.

How fitting.

[jukin]

I had a buddy and his family had some ag land that we would drive...wait... TRACTORS all around.  We also started driving this rusted old chevy around there when we were ten.  Of course we drove it to go shoot at bottles with our 22s.  If they wanted to get rid of us for the day they would tell us to go get rabbits for dinner.  Man we made some very elaborate traps that never trapped a single one.  We were too busy laughing to ever get within shooting range.  Oh we also made tree houses more or less by our selves but I'm sure the Parents checked it or on the sly.

All I can say is that I am glad to have grown up when you could do those types of things. 

[catsmtrods]

I grew up in a housing development that was built in the middle of 3 farms. Us kids were gone all day and our parents knew nothing of what we were doing. We were driving everything that had a motor from the age of 7-8. If it had wheels we put a motor on it. We had guns, we built forts in trees and under ground. We went swimming w/o pfds. We jumped off falls and bridges. We climbed cliffs and double dared each other to do death defying stunts every day. A few stiches and broken bones but we all made it. I wouldn't change a thing.