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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:14:14 EDT
- From: Jenni Sheehey <JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92205.191414JMS111@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Shopping Trip
- References: <1992Jul23.191558.20857@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1992Jul23.191558.20857@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
- al677@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jerry Cosyn) says:
- >
- [lots of quality peeving deleted]
- > Mom caught on to the action as she turned past the Nestle's Quick
- >display at the far end of the aisle, and, with the swift peace-keeping
- >action of the United Nations, jerked the cart out of range of the
- >infantry, established a beachhead in front of the baby, and clouted
- >Jimmy with a backhanded swipe to the side of his head. As Jimmy
- >cringed and wailed on the floor at her feet, she shook a menacing
- >finger under the nose of the girl while issuing a steady and practiced
- >stream of threatening invective laced with unimaginative profanity.
-
- This brings forcefully to mind something I heard somewhere (don't
- remember where) "A good parent can accomplish with merely a stern look
- more than a bad parent can accomplish with blows." I wonder which type
- this one was? =)
-
- Peeve: parents who don't think enough of their children to bother
- earning their respect.
-
- ObHoney: Honey, I wouldn't respect you either, if you spent all of your
- time screeching at me like a fishwife. Coffee with that?
-
- --Jenni
-