... but his ability to blurt the question out due to his overwhelming curiosity is apparently stronger than any fear of my parental wrath I have yet been able to instill.
"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
- Prov. 22:15
I know what my Mom would have done to me, and I wouldn't have been doing it anymore whether I understood why or not. But unlike the IdaBriggs primitive, my Mom wasn't a moonbat. And she didn't look like the female version of Marty Feldman.
This explains part of it:
IdaBriggs
4... I did not learn some of the social conventions myself until I was in my late teens.
So some of it is inherent stupidity. Moonbat parents raise moonbat kids to be future moochers.
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