rant for the day
there was a list of things that are disappearing posted on aol (i think..rhonda showed it to me) and these caught my attention:
the bees. this is a real problem; we depend on the bees and they are dying out and no one seems to know why. i do. it is mother nature and she is pissed. we are, as bill hicks once said, a virus with shoes and we are contaminating the planet.
kids to do chores in the neighborhood. i had a fair amount of work to be done in my front yard, leaves to be racked, weeds to be pulled, trees and bushes to be trimmed. i live on a corner lot and there is both a high school and a middle school within three blocks of me and every school day dozens of kids walk by my house. NOT ONE EVER STOPPED AND ASKED IF THEY COULD DO THESE CHORES. NOT ONE. i eventually went and got two day laborers, both probably illegal, and paid them one hundred dollars to do the work. i would have paid a couple of kids the same but... i don't want to sound like the typical old man (why, when i was a boy etc etc etc) BUT when i was a boy, i mowed lawns, washed cars and windows, had a paper route, worked at the grocery store as a sacker and all of those jobs i went out and hustled up. the kids walking by my house seem to all have cell phones and ipods and hundred dollar sneakers. where are they getting the money from? i can only imagine if i had asked my folks for the money to buy a pair of tennis shoes that cost 5 times more than the just regular cheap ones what would have happened. but, one thing, i know is that they would have never given me the money though they did have it...we were not poor nor rich but true middle class and they were very big on earning your own money. so i ask: what the fuck is going on? from what i read about the schools here in vegas a good many kids are going out into the world with a piss poor education and to top it off, no work habits. good luck to them.
a catholic education. both rhonda and i went to catholic schools. both rhonda and i can read and write, know history, know math, know science (not my strong suit), etc. while catholic schools had and have many things about them i don't like they did one thing really well...THEY FUCKING MADE YOU GET THE GRADES BECAUSE IF YOU DIDN'T YOU DID THE YEAR OVER. PERIOD. NO FUCKING AROUND. YOU DID IT OVER. and no kid likes that. also, because they did cost a pretty penny, the parents were involved and today, the teachers i speak to who are from public schools tell me that it is like pulling teeth to get parents involved. when kimberly and mica were going to school be it public or private (they did both depending on how much money we were earning) their mom and i knew their teachers, talked to their teachers, supervised their homework etc etc. guess what? they were good students who went on to college and now have good careers and their kids get good grades. not that i was a great parent, i wasn't because i left, but when i was there, books were in the house, we read to the kids from almost day one of their lives and guess what again? they grew up with a love of books, learning and reading. those are great assets to take into the world. (here i must give almost all credit to their mothers but i did my part when i was there...hell, stefanie's first word was "daddy" because i was a stay at home dad for the first two years of her life.) ((hudson i can take no credit for at all other than being a sperm donar as sharon liked to call me...lol...but he turned out great as well))
those that is my rant for today. off to play poker.
the bees. this is a real problem; we depend on the bees and they are dying out and no one seems to know why. i do. it is mother nature and she is pissed. we are, as bill hicks once said, a virus with shoes and we are contaminating the planet.
kids to do chores in the neighborhood. i had a fair amount of work to be done in my front yard, leaves to be racked, weeds to be pulled, trees and bushes to be trimmed. i live on a corner lot and there is both a high school and a middle school within three blocks of me and every school day dozens of kids walk by my house. NOT ONE EVER STOPPED AND ASKED IF THEY COULD DO THESE CHORES. NOT ONE. i eventually went and got two day laborers, both probably illegal, and paid them one hundred dollars to do the work. i would have paid a couple of kids the same but... i don't want to sound like the typical old man (why, when i was a boy etc etc etc) BUT when i was a boy, i mowed lawns, washed cars and windows, had a paper route, worked at the grocery store as a sacker and all of those jobs i went out and hustled up. the kids walking by my house seem to all have cell phones and ipods and hundred dollar sneakers. where are they getting the money from? i can only imagine if i had asked my folks for the money to buy a pair of tennis shoes that cost 5 times more than the just regular cheap ones what would have happened. but, one thing, i know is that they would have never given me the money though they did have it...we were not poor nor rich but true middle class and they were very big on earning your own money. so i ask: what the fuck is going on? from what i read about the schools here in vegas a good many kids are going out into the world with a piss poor education and to top it off, no work habits. good luck to them.
a catholic education. both rhonda and i went to catholic schools. both rhonda and i can read and write, know history, know math, know science (not my strong suit), etc. while catholic schools had and have many things about them i don't like they did one thing really well...THEY FUCKING MADE YOU GET THE GRADES BECAUSE IF YOU DIDN'T YOU DID THE YEAR OVER. PERIOD. NO FUCKING AROUND. YOU DID IT OVER. and no kid likes that. also, because they did cost a pretty penny, the parents were involved and today, the teachers i speak to who are from public schools tell me that it is like pulling teeth to get parents involved. when kimberly and mica were going to school be it public or private (they did both depending on how much money we were earning) their mom and i knew their teachers, talked to their teachers, supervised their homework etc etc. guess what? they were good students who went on to college and now have good careers and their kids get good grades. not that i was a great parent, i wasn't because i left, but when i was there, books were in the house, we read to the kids from almost day one of their lives and guess what again? they grew up with a love of books, learning and reading. those are great assets to take into the world. (here i must give almost all credit to their mothers but i did my part when i was there...hell, stefanie's first word was "daddy" because i was a stay at home dad for the first two years of her life.) ((hudson i can take no credit for at all other than being a sperm donar as sharon liked to call me...lol...but he turned out great as well))
those that is my rant for today. off to play poker.
posted by Ron Shock | 12:43 PM
3 Comments:
ron,
kids today have no sense of responsibility. its not completey their fault but mostly falls on the parents not givin a fuck enough to care about what the kids are doing. of course these are the same parents who piss and moan about wile e coyote tryin to catch the road runner and think that its too violent. now we have no more bugs bunny and friends cartoons on saturday mornings!!! i'm 41 years old and my generation grew up watchin these cartoons and our parents(some of the ones pissin and moanin) did too! what is the world comin to these days?!
Thank god we can go to our local comedy club and see a guy named Ron Shock!!!!!
here is a little scary thought for you: today at the poker table there was a sub teacher who said that in some of the schools here in vegas kids started carrying guns at the ripe old age of NINE!
also he told me about a kid who was absent 43 days but nothing was done about it and you know why? because they get x amount of money for each kid. man OH man
I know several beekeepers in my area and they told me that there is mite that is responsible for the collapse of beehives. It destroys the homing mechanism of the worker bee so they are unable to return to the hive and so the queen bee and the colony starve to death. There is a solution!!! the pollen of peppermint flowers contain a substance that kills the mites. So if everyone who has a garden would grow peppermint plants it would help the bees.
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