tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post115578280833545847..comments2023-04-05T09:23:38.928-05:00Comments on Hillbilly Mansion Two: Hillbilly Mom Rants AgainHillbilly Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067833789262242514noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post-1155949872200787262006-08-18T20:11:00.000-05:002006-08-18T20:11:00.000-05:00Stewbacca,How could I forget how much the Stewhamm...Stewbacca,<BR/>How could I forget how much the Stewhamm loves him some tissues? Are you planning to be an elementary teacher now, just for the fringe benefits?<BR/><BR/>I used to get around a bit. As my Ozark Mountain Daredevils sing "...I've been a lot of places, and seen a lot of things I didn't need to see..."<BR/><BR/>But I wouldn't change anything I've done. I could write a great memoir, if it wasn't for all the people who would sue the pants off me.Hillbilly Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18067833789262242514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post-1155891471462017082006-08-18T03:57:00.000-05:002006-08-18T03:57:00.000-05:00Well well well. Looks like I'm not the only one w...Well well well. Looks like I'm not the only one who's ever been accused of getting emotional over a Kleenex box. (40 of them, to boot! You sure do <I>get around</I> HM)<BR/><BR/>Like ray-hee-ain on your wedding day, and whatnot.Stewed Hammhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02289256821313634861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post-1155867204161330432006-08-17T21:13:00.000-05:002006-08-17T21:13:00.000-05:00OOOHHH!!! More things to complain about!Cazzie,I f...OOOHHH!!! More things to complain about!<BR/><BR/>Cazzie,<BR/>I forgot to mention these kids also smoke. Not in school, because we have rules about that sort of thing, but they talk about it, and smell like cigarettes first thing in the morning. Who is buying the cigarettes? The kids work fast-food jobs, and spend the money on cigarettes. The kids who don't work? Their parents give them the money. The money they don't have for school supplies and doctors.<BR/><BR/>Diva,<BR/>I, too, was livid. They should mention that in the little handouts...pencils will be put in the classroom pencil bin. Sometimes, the kids use stuff left from the year before, and theirs are stored until needed. So they don't even have a random chance of getting their own stuff.<BR/><BR/>And the Ziploc bags! My kid also brought home ONE bag of stuff. What gives? Is someone selling pot because they didn't get the meth memo, and need a lot of Ziplocs?<BR/><BR/>Mrs.,<BR/>And why is it I never hear about free Oklahoma peanut butter, huh? When I was a child, my family got *FREE CHEESE* and free peanut butter. Have you been holding out on us, OH AMBASSADOR OF FREE CHEESE?<BR/><BR/>Lessa,<BR/>Here's my gripe about the free medical. They use it as an excuse to miss school. When my 8-year-old had the rapid heartbeat back in February, and the doctor kept saying he'd be fine...he wasn't fine, so we took him to an ER in St. Louis while we were up there. We had to pay $100 right there in the exam room. Yeah. Not even the usual billing of the insurance and then covering the deductible. What if I didn't have $100 to find out my boy's pneumonia had gotten worse, and gave him the rapid heartbeat, and he needed a stronger round of antibiotics? But a kid could get a DR's excuse for free.<BR/><BR/>That's my whole point, Lessa, that those kids go bragging about getting the free stuff, and then pull out a wad of money when the FCCLA is selling candy bars and buy 3 or 4 a day. I guess to tide them over until they can have a cigarette.<BR/><BR/>Chick,<BR/>I finally found out they keep workbooks or some such thing in the magazine racks, and set them by their desks while working from them. Then they go on a shelf.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and the car thing bothers me, too. HH says those people live payment to payment. They'll never own anything.Hillbilly Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18067833789262242514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post-1155850876629538972006-08-17T16:41:00.000-05:002006-08-17T16:41:00.000-05:00A friend and I had a similiar discussion earlier t...A friend and I had a similiar discussion earlier this week. She has a 9-yr old and she didn't understand why she had to buy a magazine rackc/container thingie for the teacher...especially when there was going to be about 30 kids in the class. What was the teacher going to do with 30 of those magazine racks???<BR/><BR/>I worked as a paramedic for awhile and I could never understand when I walked into a house that was in absolute squalor, but low and behold there was a large, expensive TV in the corner and an expensive car in the driveway. The way we look at money and spend it mystifies me.<BR/><BR/>http://www.danno.org/blogsChickadeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05014499736486393658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post-1155824627029429032006-08-17T09:23:00.000-05:002006-08-17T09:23:00.000-05:00AMEN!AMEN!Queen Of Cheesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00411157529359394902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post-1155821847895189192006-08-17T08:37:00.000-05:002006-08-17T08:37:00.000-05:00Mr.Diva was LIVID when he found out that the teach...Mr.Diva was LIVID when he found out that the teachers just put everything in the closet and make one big community pot o' crayons and pencils. Oooh he was enraged even! Our kids get most of their supplies through the indians, but there are several things we don't get and buy ourselves. I'm certainly not complaining and wouldn't even bat an eye if they said tomorrow that there would be no more school supplies for the indian kids. I'm not entitled, but I'm sure glad my tribe takes care of them. But at the same time, I know that the parents who buy all of their supplies can spend upwards of $40 and I wouldn't want to see my kids' Crayolas that they picked out in with the El Breako brand from the dollar store. I'm not being a snob, I shop at the dollar store, too. But I'm with ya on the ridiculousness of it all! Grr!! <BR/><BR/>The boys had to bring paper towels and the girls had to bring baby wipes - add that to the 40 boxes of kleenex in the room and well...there'd better be some serious recycling and planting of trees as a result of all that paper! And the Ziploc bags I just don't get - my boy brought home ONE baggie all year last year. What happened to the rest??????<BR/><BR/>My kids wear $15 Wal*Mart shoes, too....even though when I was a kid I swore my kids would never be outfitted in such cheap footwear. Funny how reality makes us eat our words sometimes.Redneck Divahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13506685036989431733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31782548.post-1155801929336232582006-08-17T03:05:00.000-05:002006-08-17T03:05:00.000-05:00I so get what you are saying about people who are ...I so get what you are saying about people who are not entitled to what they think they are entitled to and get it anyhow because they act like they are..well...entitled to it!!!<BR/> A few months back we drove through a suburb of Geelong that is renouned to be a less than affluent place, everyone living off the Government..or off my taxes as I pay so much in tax every year (Hmph!)..anyhow, the amount of Plasma screen TV's I could see on through the windows of these Government Housing Dilapidatede Buildings was amazing..either they DO get my tax money on pensions or they are stealing the blasted things from somewhere...and then I betcha they go and whinge at the schools and the doctors and anywhere else they can that they cannot afford anything!!! To top it off, I bet they buy up on fast food (fast food city there) and drink like fish and smoke like chimneys..but cannot buy kleenex for their sniffling shoits of kids :)Cazzie!!!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13856029137337148466noreply@blogger.com