In my day...blah blah blah...
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Topic: In my day...blah blah blah...
Posted By: caraMel
Subject: In my day...blah blah blah...
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:27pm
Yesterday I was sitting at the bus stop with Ella and Benjy when a nice elderly lady came and sat down and started chatting to them. She told me how wonderfully Benjy was talking and said how polite and beautiful Ella was, it was all very lovely 
Then she asked me where we were going and when I told her just up the hill to kindy she got really cross and told me we should be walking! And then! I got the full spiel with use of the actual phrase "In MY day"! Apparently she had to walk 15 kilometers to and from school on a gravel road without shoes, rain, hail or sunshine. I was in internal hysterics! She told me I'm too soft on Ella, catching the bus to kindy so that she's not too tired by the time we get there and that she'll wind up fat if I'm not careful. (Those of you who know Ella will be laughing at that one!) She said that she wasn't trying to upset me but that mothers today just don't know what's good for their kids and that things are too easy for them, with a wink and a pat on the arm. I had to laugh, I'm sure she actually thought she was passing on some really helpful wisdom to me  ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:46pm
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bet she had to darn her own socks!
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Posted By: almostthere
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:47pm
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Aww, that poor old biddy <insert condascending tone here!!>
lol gosh i hate when people do that, as you said imure she was just trying to be helpful but ya know!!? ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2128f6"> 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:51pm
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I hate that! I really do, it annoys me now. I work in an office and (at 29yo) I am the youngest person here with most of the ladies over 50 and many over 60 so I get heaps of great advise but there are one or two that jump on the "you don't know how easy..." band wagon.
Last week I was told that we don't know how easy we have it these days because we get parental leave which they never had when (the opinionated lady) had her children. I turned around and told her although that's true they also didn't have an expectation or financial need placed on them to return to the workforce placing their babies in the care of others shortly after giving birth. Her response "oh, well I'm just generalising Jo - I didn't mean you"  -------------  
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Posted By: bookwyrm
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:52pm
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I love how random strangers (bus stop strangers are a classic example) feel obligated to dish out parenting advice. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:57pm
LMFAO - Ella, fat?  That's the funniest thing I've heard all day!
Slightly OT but my nana apparently used to do the "in my day we walked 15 miles a day to school, barefeet in the winter" spiel to her kids, one day Dad measured it in the car and it was less than 2km  -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:59pm
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I wish someone would offer to teach me how to darn socks, lol! DH is always sporting holes in his and refuses to get rid of them!
Sometimes I really look forward to being old and having that as an excuse to be blatantly rude and opinionated ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 2:00pm
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*snort* ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 2:00pm
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LOL Emma, I bet that shut her up! (In the nicest possible way of course) ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 4:56pm
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I get that but to the other extreme, we walk to school everyday unless it's snowing or theres a storm brewing, the mothers at school have a real issue with the fact that we walk to school, they can't fathom it at all.
It's a 45min round trip and its the only exercise Nyah gets, unlike their kids who get driven to school in their mummy's flash Ford Territory's... I had a wee giggle at her comment about Ella. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: ElfsMum
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 4:59pm
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funny caramel..even my own Mum is like this every time i see her she keeps asking me to ask the doc about pulling back E's foreskin in the bath...in my day we did that if you don tit will get infected...i have told her that we dont do it these days and why 694 times but still she doesn't believe me.. and the same with biting him back and letting him cry*sigh*!! and shes only 56 (in her day at Xmas they got oranges an fizzy drink blah blah blah) :) ------------- Mum to two amazing boys! |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 6:44pm
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Oh my god LOL, things have changed from when she was young with young kids!
Some people should just keep their gobs shut  ------------- |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 6:48pm
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pah!!! in MY day i had to walk THIRTY kilometres in the snow to school , then thirty kilometres back, then i had to chop piles of wood for the fire , and then feed the horses and then i DIED , and the next day i had to walk THIRTY kilometres AGAIN!!!!
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 7:17pm
Ah yes, but did you have to do it all in barefeet? ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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caitlynsmygirl wrote:Posted By: Neeks
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 7:46pm
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Back in my day I used to stand in cow pooh to warm my feet after walking 15 miles in snow to get to school *rolls eyes* WHATEVER Grandma -------------  
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 7:50pm
That's what I was going to say! Don't worry, when you're old you'll be doing that too lol. I know I will! I usually just smile and then turn my head away and roll my eyes lol ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 8:04pm
Barefeet?! bare feet?! i didnt even HAVE feet . |
Posted By: Konagirl
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 8:16pm
| And it was up hills both ways |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 10:57pm
| *gasp* did you have to walk it too?? |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 7:39am
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i know my mum had to walk from tepapa / oranga to other side of one tree hill for piano lessons and also to where greenlane mcdonalds is (my grandddads butcher shop was there)....and when i thought about that i wondered how the heck they did it to be honest...that is a hell of a long walk!!! Dont blame the oldies for thinking we are lazy really....heck I drive to the mall which is like 1 km away! We are just lucky we have cars etc and the ability to cram more into our day - ummm lucky????
Let the oldies have their memories - but give me my car anyday....there are other ways of stopping our kids getting fat LOL! |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 10:18am
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LMAO!! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: Snickerdoodle
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 10:39am
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TOTALLY LMAO!
Awesome 
I had an old lady stop me in the supermarket yesterday. "Aww...what a gorgeous wee girl...what have you called her?" "Hannah" "Oh! Out of the Bible! Are you Christian?" "Raised that way, yes... but.." "Oh,lovely. So you're off to church on Sunday? I have 11 brothers and sister... of course, Morrie dies of a heart attack last year, and Ethel has cancer....and June is having bowel problems..." Oh dear
Gotta love' em! ------------- 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 17 May 2008 at 11:27am
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Makes you wonder why on earth they think we'd want to go back to how hard it was in their day!!
Thank god for automatic washing machines, the bus and not having to walk everywhere. Whose got time to walk 15 miles to school!! None of those old biddies had to go to work or lose their house either. They don't know how lucky they had it.
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