Things I got in trouble for...

Original post date: Friday, January 04, 2008


Things I got in trouble for...

I don't know how many of you know that I had a step-dad before Sam, but I did. His name was George Dodge. I learned quite a bit about life from him...pretty much how not to be. He was a "not nice man". It is weird though how even though you can have a guy hang a belt in the hall way to remind you not to do things to get yourself in trouble, you have a weird nostalgic memory of him. Anyways I used to get in trouble a lot as a kid, you know for being a kid and here is a list of some of the things:

1. Telling a Lie. This is an obvious one. You shouldn't lie, but when you are trying to get out of a whipping you do whatever it takes. Unfortunately this usually back fired and I got in twice as much trouble because I lied about what I did to get in trouble in the first place.

2. Having a crumpled up napkin at the dinner table. I didn't say they would all make sense. My napkin had to be folded neatly either on the side of my plate or in my lap. I caught myself telling Audrey to keep her napkin neat the other night at dinner, I was being nice about it don't worry.

3. Not filling the ice cube trays up with equal amounts of water in each compartment. All the ice had to be the same size. Whew! luckily we have an automatic ice maker now.

4. Not closing doors the right way. You don't just pull a door shut and let the latch do what it was designed to do with it's curved apparatus. You have to turn the handle and gently pull the door to so it doesn't slam or click. Yeah I still close doors this way.

5. Chewing with your mouth open. This one I am glad of because people that chew with their mouths open need to be slapped...it is freaking gross. If you do that now, STOP. Really people don't want to see it or hear it. The only time you should be allowed to do that is when you are sick and you can't breath through your nose.

Then of course you have the standards

6. No elbows on the table...stupid, I put my elbows on the table all the time now.

7. Say Please and Thank You...it is a respect thing.

8. Yes/No Maam and Yes/No Sir...I still do this and Garretts parents still get mad at me for calling them Maam and Sir. It is a freakin hard habit to break.

I am sure there are more but I can't remember them all now. I got the good ones in, the creepy thing is, is that the doors get shut quite in my house, but I have found that is by telling as much as by example.

Well I am off to bed...sleep well all.