Re: Re: 4/4/14 WDT NSFW So I got roped into helping chaperone my wife's 5th grade class for an overnight field trip. It's my first and only time doing it. Hell is real, it's other people's kids. 5th grade boys believe in Axe body spray in a big way, I am drowning in it, holy Christ if I was this much of a pain in the ass when I was young I am surprised my dad didn't whip my ass more than he did.
I dont know about mixing vodka and pickle juice together, but pickle back shots, basically chasing whiskey with pickle juice, is fucking awesome. Removes all the burn and staves off some of the dehydration effects.
Re: Re: 4/4/14 WDT NSFW Axe in fifth grade? WTF?!?! I guess I'll find that out on April 30th - I am one of the chaperones for the 5th grade field trip to Washington DC. It's not overnight, though. I was about to wonder WTF that's all about, but then I remembered that when I was in 6th grade, we did this whole week experience at some sort of nature retreat where we stayed in cabins and did educational stuff during the day. It was one of the neatest experiences of my life. Like, one session we literally sat on a shore of a lake breaking open geodes. This was in or near Land between the Lakes in Kentucky - we drove up from Clarksville.
Re: Re: 4/4/14 WDT NSFW When I lived in San Diego, we'd sometimes have beer leagues game after a Friday night dance kinda thing. It was a free skate for shits, it reminded me of an 8th grade dance. I'll never forget the amount of cheap cologne floating through the air. It was annoying and just smelled terrible. I remember a kid I skate with in high school wouldn't shower after games, maybe he was insecure about having a vagina (the kid annoyed me), so instead of showering, he'd douse himself in Axe. Really gross, especially if you've ever been around hockey players after a skate. We tend to be a very sweaty, smelly group.
Re: Re: Re: 4/4/14 WDT NSFW Yeah Axe and fucking IPhone's, the amount of 5th grade kids with an iPhone is staggering. Selfies, FaceTime all going down on the bus, my kids won't have phones until they are 30.
Re: Re: Re: Re: 4/4/14 WDT NSFW I can't be the only one who's parents wouldn't have even entertained the idea of giving you a phone at that age, let alone a phone that does video / pictures. I don't see any reason a 5th grader needs a iPhone. None.
Re: Re: Re: Re: 4/4/14 WDT NSFW #justajoke Phones are good when your kids do sports and actually field trips. The school or kids give you an estimated time to be there, but rarely are they on time. You'll be stuck sitting in a lot of parking lots waiting for them. It doesn't need to be an iPhone, but phones are nice in that regard. Particularly if you have more than one kid and are trying to coordinate schedules.
You guys are all worried about kids getting phones. My goal for when I have kids is to try to never let them know that Disney World even exists. This will be challenging and may require home-schooling and no technology for them, but it will be a cold day in hell before I drop several grand to walk around in the blazing heat of Orlando.
Mrs. Noland's parents live an hour away from Orlando and we have never been to Disney. I consider this my finest act of parenting skill.
Do what my parents did - tell them you're taking them to Florida when they're about 6, get them all excited and pumped up to go on the plane, let them carry on about Mickey and Minnie and Goofy, all the while knowing that you're not going to Disney World, you're actually going to Fort Myers, and the kids will spend all week in a trailer with a bunch of retirees playing backgammon and cribbage. You'll scar them so badly towards the idea of Disney, they'll never want to go back.
My middle one wants to work there. I tell her how miserable it will be and she responds with something along the lines of "thanks for killing my dreams". Braggert. So that's what I need to do. And Angel, that makes me sad.
That is an amazing idea. But even I hate Ft. Myers. I would just take them to Sanibel 20 minutes away. This way I can even enjoy myself a bit. Edit: I did work there. For a year in college, and it is just a fun as she hopes it will be. I was 20. And the place is loaded to the gills with horny college students taking a semester away from school and living on Disney property in these huge dorm style apartment complexes. All they do is sleep with each other and get wasted. Let her live out her dreams.
I have that on my phone and when I listen to it in the car the kids look at me and go "What is this?" Just awesome music kids. His laugh in it he stole from Grandmaster Flash.
Someone in this office is wearing jingle bells on their shoes. When I find them - and it shouldn't take long to find them - I'm going to feed them those bells.
Disney is fine by me as long as the entire country of Brazil doesn't show up. Their tour groups apparently ruin everything for everyone.
My experience was the English. They didn't ruin anything, but at Blizzard Beach they hovered around the smoking section in Speedos. Not sure if you're even allowed to smoke there now. We got in line behind some foreigners (I forget from where) and they said it was actually cheaper for them to go there than to EuroDisney.
My experience is anyone from the UK wears soccer jerseys whenever they travel anywhere. I don't get it. Its not gonna make their pasty asses burn any less in the sun. Its also probably the safest place for any foreign travelers to visit. Not many American cities cater well to non-English speaking foreigners.
Re: Re: 4/4/14 WDT NSFW My son's class is going to DC soon. I told him I would chaperone ONLY if I can leave for lunch and go to a pub and drink to deal with the fact I hate other peoples' kids. He said I could just stay home, no worries. Yes they believe in Axe body spray. But then, fifth grade is about the time they start smelling like wet puppies. So. Gross.