Comments on: Single Lady

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:05:48 +0000

No, he’s raising them to have a yucky taste in movies. The only reason the kids like that song is that it was in The Squeakuel.

By: Tom Townsend

Tom Townsend — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:23:45 +0000

I am a parent and on long car trips or even short ones my boys (and me) enjoy books on CD. Everybody has a different view on this and it doesn’t make one a bad parent because they let their kids watch TV in the car, but personally I despise that practice. And as others have mentioned, it appears that the driver was also shooting a movie - if this is true he deserves to have his license revoked. And he is raising his kids to have yucky taste in music.

By: FeelinOld

FeelinOld — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:53:31 +0000

Never had a problem reading in the car, except for the fact that my two siblings did get car sick if they read, so they made it their mission in life to prevent my reading. (I really feel for my parents, how on earth did they manage to put up with us…)
This of course was pre walkman never mind pre dvd, whatever music mom and dad were listening to, that’s what we listened to.

By: Keera

Keera — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:45:11 +0000

Chuck, you poor thing! You’re worse than I am!

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:17:13 +0000

We have no DVD player for my little sister. Our much younger cousin has one and my sister was amazed. She does have an iPod Nano, but at least my parents are holding firm on the cell phone thing. She also has a nicer DS than I do. Curses.

And Keera, I once got motion sickness from glancing at a bunch of tiny little flowers flowing downhill in the gutter while I was running uphill. I certainly can’t watch a movie in a car.

By: Keera

Keera — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:25:04 +0000

Elyrest @22, perhaps the DVD-players are more common in Norway. My impression here is that “everybody” has one per kid. I don’t know how they do it. Me, I can’t even read a few pages in a book without getting carsick.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:28:08 +0000

Elyrest, that is creepy, though I suppose I gave you all the clues you needed.

At one point we drove over water, and so many bugs hit it sounded like rain.

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:46:10 +0000

FeelinOld - Ha Ha! Very good. I reread my comment and you’re right it might not be bug bodies I scraped. I-5 goes down through the central valley of California where most of the produce is grown. It’s warm and fertile all year and I-5’s proximity seems to attract all sorts of bugs to the lights and the windshields anytime I drove up/down it.

I’ve never slipped on grasshoppers, but I’ve walked in woods that were so full of gypsy moths that you could hear the munching of the leaves. They also plopped out of the trees onto my head. That was in Pennsylvania.

By: John Bledsoe

John Bledsoe — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:56:15 +0000

What a crappy song for those poor kids to be singing to

By: FeelinOld

FeelinOld — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:54:08 +0000

Elyrest: Got to be careful making that statement (scrape dead bodies off) without ‘Bugs ‘ in it.

Dumb question what bugs? Especially this time of year.
(Sorry I’m from the prairies, this time of year is nice cause we’re between snow and bugs, went across to Saskatchewan last summer and had the traction control system cut in a couple times because the road was so slippery with grasshoppers)