Hey 3.
This is a restaurant that lost all it's windows and it's roof. The table cloths are still strangely in place.
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Just thought I'd say hey.
It's another boring Monday around here.
Trying to fix ex-roommates electronics but without all the right remotes, it's a pain in the ass. Not her fault, shit gets lost when you move and Greyhound who shipped her stuff actually broke and opened several of her boxes. Bastages.
The kids went off to school after telling me about the fish stick twins.
What? I said.
They smell like fish.
I told them to be nice and if I ever catch them saying that to those 2 girls, I'll kick their teeth in.
Some parents, need to do a better job of teaching hygiene to their kids. These girls smell bad and now have a nickname and Travis stinks to high heaven.
Hello parents??
Didn't you ever hear of teaching your kid to take a shower and wash with soap and water everyday? Or how about brushing your teeth and putting on deodorant?
Gawd. I feel bad for some of these kids.
I mean, middle school is hell enough without smelling bad. Do you have any idea what it's like for the smelly kids? They can have all the right clothes and the right sneakers and even some stupid bling (I hate that word. It's called jewelry you fucknuts) but if they smell bad, it's pure fucking hell. It's a nightmare everyday of school. They are teased mercilessly and if they get a nickname like Fish stick, it sticks until high school is over. That's a long time to be teased.
My back is still fried but I am going to make banana bread later on for my new neighbors. They have a daughter who goes to school with my boys and she just moved here and there are no girls on my street at all so she wants to hang with the boys. I'm going to make some bread to take over. It's nice to have nice neighbors unlike the fuckers that I currently have on both sides of me.
Comments
If the kids are in middle school, then they're old enough to know to wash up.
BUT... if their mother cooks fish alot, then their clothes will catch that scent. Know how people from India smell like curry? Same idea.
But good job on telling your kids not to tease the girls...
Posted by: Cammie | August 23, 2004 10:42 AM
Cammie,
Your logic sounds all well and good but you know as well as I do that if a woman, especially young women going through puberty, don't wash their coochies on a daily basis, it takes on a certain odor. I'd like to think that maybe they eat a lot of fish but knowing where i live and knowing that we have massive red necks here and knowing that Travis's family has not told him to take showers everyday nor to wear deodorant, I am highly suspicious to your reasoning.
Do you understand now? ;)
Posted by: kat | August 23, 2004 10:47 AM
To respond to that comment about all people from India smelling like curry, that was just kinda rude and stereotypical. I know people from India and no, they don't all smell like curry.
Gah.
Posted by: kat | August 23, 2004 11:44 AM
Yah kat, I know about the kids and smell. I have to make mine take a bath, he's a true boy alright but then he's only 7...but gezzz. He knows how to get dirty. And about the neighbor issue, we had a real b*tch live next to us. She was so anti-social. Now we have someone who is actually nice and talks!!! Hope ur back feels better. Mine is tender right now kinda sucks.
Posted by: christie | August 23, 2004 1:34 PM
I am hoping that we can stay friendly with them. I hate not having nice neighbors cuz if you're ever in a jam, locked out or whatever, no one helps you.
Posted by: kat | August 23, 2004 2:43 PM
Yea I agree that by that age they should know all about proper hygiene but I gotta say that I know most kids go through a 'nasty' phase when they don't want to wash. I know mine did and they knew better than that. I would say that that might be the cause of it but if it's all of 'em I doubt it.
Hope your back eases up and feels better soon!
Posted by: Kelly | August 23, 2004 3:10 PM
It's both twin girls so it might be a family issue. My back is starting to chill out a bit. I have to keep moving around some so I don't get all stiff.
Posted by: kat | August 23, 2004 3:27 PM
I also went through that phase with my son... I had to shove him into the shower. In large part the solution came from his entourage. The kids at school teased him about hygiene to the point where he smartened up. He still doesn't brush his teeth often enough, though. He thinks Clorets solves everything!
Posted by: Terry | August 23, 2004 3:38 PM
Yeah sorry, listerine pocket packs don't solve the nasty yellow plaque on the teeth. I had to like drill it into Marks head that the teeth need to be brushed daily. Twice even...lol
Posted by: kat | August 23, 2004 3:43 PM
You aren't lying about the nickname sticking forever -- there was a cheerleader in my grade who got the nickname "Tuna". All the guys called her that. She'd even open her locker to find Chicken of the Sea cans inside. And I noticed someone on an alumni site even posted a message to her that started off, "Hey Tuna!" We're in our early 30s now and it's still with her...
Posted by: robyn | August 23, 2004 5:45 PM
That's awful!! After all these years. Some people just never grow up and learn to stop being assholes.
Posted by: kat | August 23, 2004 5:54 PM
I cook and eat fish a lot, but I do not smell like that. And Mike went to MIT, where thye had a lot of Indian students, and he said that none of them smelled like curry.
But I don't get the stinky kid thing. Here's another one of my infamous *kids at ball games* rants...we were at this one game, and mike got up to get us some food. While he was gone. this family sat next to us. There were two boys, about 7 & 10 years old, and boy, did they stink to high heaven. Yeah, I realized that it was the middle of the summer, but still...we're talking lack of bathing for at least a few days here.
The smell was so bad that I was gagging, and there was no way I could eat sitting next to these people. There was no place elase to move to, so we ended up leaving and eating the food out in the car. After I stopped gagging, that is.
It's not the fault of the kids, but the idiot parents. Funny thing was...the parents of the stinky kids looked like well-to-do yuppies...they were probably just too lazy to argue with the boys when they refused to bathe. The kids' clothes looked new and were clean, it was just that they didn't bathe. I wanted to smack them (the parents) upside the head for not doing the job they signed on for, and for making everyone else smell their stinky kids. But I didn't say anything, I figured that those kids might get enough shit from other kids over the stench, why torture them more?
Good for you, Kat, for telling your boys not to make fun of those girls. I just hope that the girls will figure things out and start practicing hygiene soon.
Posted by: Christine | August 23, 2004 9:00 PM
Some parents, and this is just my opinion, don't feel like arguing about it but it's THEIR job. They are doing their kids a major dis-service by not telling them to clean themselves.
Sorry you had to deal with that.
Posted by: kat | August 23, 2004 10:16 PM