From: theise@panix.com   
      
   On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 08:58:44 -0600,   
     sticks  wrote:   
   >  On 2/7/2025 8:44 AM, Ted Heise wrote:   
   > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 02:03:49 -0000 (UTC),   
   > >    Carol  wrote:   
   >   
   > >>   LOL!  Kids can be brutal by accident!   
   > >   
   > > Yeah, and that wasn't the only time.  In her 50s, my wife   
   > > sorrowfully let the kids know the chronic arthritis in an   
   > > ankle was going to end her walking days at some point.  This   
   > > same kid piped up, "That's okay, Mom; you've had a good life."   
   >   
   >  Hilarious!   
      
   Yeah, we've gotten a lot of mileage out of that one.   
      
      
   >  What always bothers me about the youngsters in the family is   
   >  that for one, they don't seem to realize that us older folks   
   >  were also young once, and second that they too will get   
   >  old.....and it happens much faster than they can believe.  So   
   >  much wasted time....   
      
   I know, right?  I was *never* that way when young.  /s   
      
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   Ted Heise             West Lafayette, IN, USA   
      
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