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Post by gyro on May 18, 2009 18:49:59 GMT
Bugger. The latter is my speciality ...
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Post by lola on May 19, 2009 16:18:49 GMT
That's cause yer a guy.
(note: humor attempt. I'm not quite THAT sexist in real life.)
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Post by gyro on May 19, 2009 19:40:15 GMT
Typical chick .....
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Post by lola on May 19, 2009 22:40:52 GMT
Hey!!
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Post by gyro on May 20, 2009 4:44:45 GMT
See post #31, 2nd line .......
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Post by rikita on Jun 2, 2009 19:30:10 GMT
i would say we had to do about the same amount of chores. well, one of my brothers had to do a lot less, because he was a lot younger, and always stayed the baby... i was lazier about chores though. washing the dishes, setting the table etc. was something we all had to do, but the outside chores (raking leafs, helping to cut down the hedge, moving the snow from the drive way, mowing the lawn) were something i always tried to get out of, while my brothers were more willing to do that...
ah but i remember one time though, when my dad paid us, to move this huge pile of sand, so we were all at it with our shovels, and my brothers kept taking breaks while i kept working, so in the end i said i am done now, and they can do the rest. they disagreed because "boys are stronger and thus working faster, so we caught up with whatever you did while we took a break". don't remember what came out of that though.
these days, the brother who is closest to me in age i think keeps his place (slightly) cleaner than i keep mine, we both aren't particularly good at it though. he cooks quite well when he wants to, better than me i think, but he still brings his laundry to my mom - which in part has to do with that there is just no convenient place for a laundry machine at his place though, while in mine there is... the younger brother still lives at home. he does some stuff, like he completely redid the upper floor of the house with his friends, and he helps with gardening work etc. ... but i guess my mom cooks for him (or he has pizza) and of course does the laundry etc. ...
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Post by rikita on Jun 2, 2009 19:32:47 GMT
what was a bit different though was stuff like walking home late in the evening as a teenager - there were some stretches between the train station and home where there were no houses, and my parents didn't want me to come home alone after a certain time, while for my brothers they didn't think it was as much of an issue... also i think when i started wanting to stay overnight at my boyfriend's they had a bit of a problem with that - there the difference is though that neither of my brothers really seemed to have much with girls yet until their later teens or early twenties, and at the same time me being the oldest, my parents anyway had to find their way to deal with these things first with me...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 12, 2013 15:57:56 GMT
Somehow I missed your reply from 3 1/2 years ago, Rikita. There is such an enormous generation gap between your statement & anything I could say about my teen years that we might as well be from different planets. If I, or for that matter, my sisters who are respectively 7 and 11 years younger than I, had told my parents we were staying over at a boyfriend's house, we would have become instant orphans, as Mama and Daddy would have disintegrated from shock.
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Post by htmb on Jan 12, 2013 16:13:43 GMT
That would not have been the case with me, bixa. After my father dealt with him, I would never have seen the boyfriend ever again. Next they would most likely have shipped me off to a cloistered convent.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2013 16:28:34 GMT
You might have found the body parts on one of your canoe trips, htmb.
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Post by htmb on Jan 12, 2013 16:33:35 GMT
I doubt evidence would ever have been found, Kerouac.
KAYAK trips, not canoe. Big difference.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2013 16:40:33 GMT
Forgot about the alligators....
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