Re: When do the nearly teens morph...

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:08:16 -0500, Anthony Summers
<summerstorm0007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:02:23 -0500, Thomas R. Kettler wrote...
In article <MPG.21f89a65f346b3299897d5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Anthony Summers <summerstorm0007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:41:36 -0600, David V. Loewe, Jr wrote...
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:20:53 -0500, Anthony Summers
<summerstorm0007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:11:39 -0600, David V. Loewe, Jr wrote...

We got ours before the parents got ahold of them. I consistently
scored highest in the entire school district in my grade (this would
be around 900 students) - MMAT (I don't remember if it was called this
back when I took them - Missouri Mastery and Achievement Tests), PSAT,
SAT, ACT, Achievement Tests, blah, blah.

The only one I didn't see first was the actual Stanford-Binet result.
My uncle, who worked in the neighboring district to the south of the
one I went to, managed (somehow) to get ahold of those. They never
showed me or told me, but Uncle Joe WAS impressed.

So what, Mr. Loewe?

What, Mr. Summers?

My question was straightforward; I'll make it moreso: who gives a ***?

Why ask the question? Are you constipated?

He must be.

I'm mostly just wondering how many times, exactly, Mr. Loewe was hugged
as a child, Mr. Kettler.

Quite often. My parents fought a custody WAR (and I'm an only child)
back when such things just didn't happen in middle class divorces.

Amongst other things, I was "kidnapped" [1] (and taken across state
lines - which is a Federal Crime) by the non-custodial parent during
the divorce. For one parent (and an Aunt) to risk doing THAT and for
the custodial parent to go the several hundred miles to fetch me back
from the aforementioned Aunt in 1971 America SHOWS me that I was
cherished and loved. Do you have such proof that you were loved, Mr.
Summers? Did your parents risk incarceration to BE with you? MINE
did.

It's rare to see someone so desperately (and publicly) in need of
validation.

To quote a great Cardinal, "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."

I don't need validation from the likes of you, Mr. Summers. I get my
validation from how I actually performed and how my parents acted. Do
my accomplishments make you feel inferior?

Didn't the "blah, blah" at the end of the list of tests TELL you
something, BTW? I'm beginning to think you are Slick returned to
awkwardly attempt to vex us.

[1] Which consisted of them pulling up next to me on my two block long
walk to school on a Monday morning and asking me if I wanted to go to
my Aunt's house. I said, "Sure!" and jumped into the car and off we
went... [2] I had some vague misapprehension that my opinion actually
mattered as to who got custody and I wanted to spend some time with
the non-custodial parent. Of course, that misapprehension originated
in the fact that every adult I knew more than casually treated me as
if I were FAR older and more mature than a normal 9 year old boy. So,
naturally, I figured the Judge would too and that he would ask me and
take into account (although not necessarily agree with) my opinion.

[2] Which is why, to this day, I take a somewhat jaundiced view of the
hysteria over children being "kidnapped" by their non-custodial
parents, but I digress.
--
"I thought that you might have some advice to give ...
On how to be... Insensitive."
- Jann Arden
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