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Earlier this week my mother-in-law made some wonderful vegetable soup. Ingredients included hamburger, tomato base, corn, green beans, peas, lima beans, and probably some other stuff. My husband doesn’t like green beans and always jokes about how they aren’t really “beans” but hulls of beans.
So I walked into the kitchen and the mother-in-law was standing over the stove. I stopped and looked to see what she was doing. She was picking out the green beans for her son, my 50+ year old husband, so he wouldn’t have to.
16-year old was waiting at bus stop this morning alone.
“If that boy isn’t out there, you’d better watch her!”
The mother in law has a doctor appointment today, so I’m trying to change my schedule to be home when baby girl gets off the bus. The MiL:
“Does she have a key? It’s scary coming home to an empty house because you just don’t know who’s inside waiting for you. With all those crazy people out there, you just never know.”
Ahhhh… love spreading the seeds of fear.
Bus stops are evil, bad places. “You never know what kind of crazy person is going to mow kids down in a car! Or steal one of the kids! It wasn’t like that when I was growing up!”
After watching the tragedy unfold today regarding the massive killings at Virginia Tech, first my deepest sympathy to the students, faculty, family and friends of those murdered and injured.
The MiL’s take is a little different:
“We need to stop sending the kids to school.”
