THAT’s nothing! When I went to Catholic School in Queens, NY you got it from the Teachers, you got it from the Nuns, you got it when you got home, AND you got it from EVERY Little Old Lady on the way home (The Grape-Vine was INCREDIBLE!)
Interesting. Always thought that Pluggers were old buggers. Now I am thinking it is a town or a race. Maybe the island of doctor moreau years after the story took place.
I never had to wait for my dad to get home. I got it from my mom right away! And THEN got it again from my dad! It didn’t happen very often – because I KNEW I would get it from both of them! (I am now 56 and those lessons STUCK!)
Yup, the discussions I had with my dad after getting in trouble at school were not whether or not I was guilty – my guilt was already established. The discussion was about how sore was my butt going to be.
Night Gaunt: That was the usual arrangement, but some [extracurricular?] courses had outsiders. I worked part of my way through a Methodist seminary teaching square dancing at a Jim Crow black Catholic high school!
LeoAutodidact over 11 years ago
THAT’s nothing! When I went to Catholic School in Queens, NY you got it from the Teachers, you got it from the Nuns, you got it when you got home, AND you got it from EVERY Little Old Lady on the way home (The Grape-Vine was INCREDIBLE!)
stukuls over 11 years ago
Interesting. Always thought that Pluggers were old buggers. Now I am thinking it is a town or a race. Maybe the island of doctor moreau years after the story took place.
hippogriff over 11 years ago
stukuts: Plugger is a state of mind. Read the right margin description.
battle of plattsburgh over 11 years ago
Some of us never got detention, …..and we walked four miles to school through three feet of snow.
contralto2b over 11 years ago
I never had to wait for my dad to get home. I got it from my mom right away! And THEN got it again from my dad! It didn’t happen very often – because I KNEW I would get it from both of them! (I am now 56 and those lessons STUCK!)
KCnFla over 11 years ago
Yep, that’s the way I was raised….get in trouble at school, be in double trouble at home.Would that it were that way now!!
Geldhart over 11 years ago
Yup, the discussions I had with my dad after getting in trouble at school were not whether or not I was guilty – my guilt was already established. The discussion was about how sore was my butt going to be.
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Night Gaunt: That was the usual arrangement, but some [extracurricular?] courses had outsiders. I worked part of my way through a Methodist seminary teaching square dancing at a Jim Crow black Catholic high school!
Gretchen's Mom over 11 years ago
“Just wait until your dad gets home!” . . . could there be anything scarier to a little kid than those 7 small words?!?
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