Subj : Re: this definetly isn't Raspberry Tart
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Sun Oct 22 2017 00:59:22

-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 12-Oct-2017 02:22 <=-

Just getting back into my replyings after being away from home for
almost a week.....

 NB>> what would benefit one might not the other, and indeed might even
 NB>> prove detrimental

 MK> Looking back, it seems to me it was more of "the punishment fitting
 MK> the crime" dealie.  For example if I sent them to their rooms for time
 MK> out for the younger one that was punishment but for the eldest it
 MK> wasn't since she often willing went to her room to read books.  She
 MK> was a real bookworm that one and it was virtually impossible to find a
 MK> suitable punishment although she seldom required any punishment. 

There is that, too.... :)  ("don't throw me in the briar patch" says
Br'er Rabbit, in the hopes that the fox will...)

 MK> Speaking of punishments, often I would 'threaten' to send them off to
 MK> a Catholic girls school which rightly neither took as a serious threat
 MK> ... which it never was.  However decades later the younger one was
 MK> totally caught off guard when she found out the place actually
 MK> existed.  All those years ago she thought I had made it up. 

Surprise... ;)

 MK> Same deal with math camp which her eldest son willingly enrolls in
 MK> every summer. She thought I made that one up too. 

At least she knew that it was an idle threat in her case.... and had she
been interested in going to math camp, she might have been able to done
it too...  :)

 NB>> At least you have grandchildren

 MK> Yes.  I definetly live a charmed life and probably don't deserve any
 MK> of it. :::evil grin::: 

Probably not...   :)   Enjoy it, though....  :)

ttyl      neb

.... I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

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