Some of you have magic and wonderous snow in the DFW area. I am really jealous. I've seen some pictures and it looks fantastic. TamiJean, Skittl, Angel-A, Alex, your snow is enduring and terrifying.
Yesterday I got a collect call from the Harris County Jail. Anna ~something~ was making the request and then the recorded message got all weird. I started talking about #76 or something. That's the point I hung up. A good thing too, it turns out that people all around the plant were getting these phone calls and it was a PHONE SCAM!!! Once you accepted the collect call, your number would be billed for who-knows-what!
Today's Question of the Day? is:
Were (are) you a latchkey kid? What ages?
bonus for parent participants: what about your kids?
Love,
The Asker
7 comments:
I was not a latch key kid until I got to jr. high school, when my mother went back to work full time. When we got to high school, we got home before mom, so we started dinner every night!
I had to look up what a latchkey kid was.
Yup, I was. My brother was typically home with me, so I wasn't completely alone, but he terrorized me, so I wished I was.
Yikes scary on the phone call! Thinking about it, I would think the jail and their one phone call policy would have something in place if it really was a misdialed number. I mean, misdialed numbers happen all the time, right? It'd be pretty awful to force someone to leave without a real phone call at that point.
I also was not a latch key kid until junior high. I also got dinner started usually some laundry before Mom and Dad got home. I suppose my brothers had some responisbilities, I just don't know what those were.
The snow is amazing and sensational! It goes up past Ford's belly, so he has to jump through the snow. I swear it has got to be AT LEAST 15 inches out there this morning! The kids threw snowballs to him yesterday. He would jumped to catch them, only to have them explode in his mouth, whereupon he would shake his head from the sensation.
They called off school for today early yesterday afternoon, which was no surprise when at least two school busses went off the road trying to bring kids home early yesterday. And the snow just kept coming. This HAS to be a blizzard in Texas terms. So I anticipate another day of wet clothes, shivering teeth and warm towels.
I was not a latch key kid. My mom went back to work when I was a sophmore in high school, and my sister (a senior) said something about being a latch key kid. A friend's mom she was a latch-key kid. The mom pointed out that since my sister could legally vote, the definition probably didn't apply. At that time, I had my own car, so I don't think it applied to me either!
So what do Texans do when they get that much snow? Y'all don't have snow shovels... Or is it still melting within a reasonable amount of time. (I'm still amazed that snow will sit for months. That's weird)
As for a blizzard- the thing I learned in Iowa is that the amount of snow doesn't make a blizzard- it's the wind blowing the snow. We've had blizzards with only an inch or two!
Our snow- well, they are worried about flooding again since we have had so much. Hopefully it will be better controlled than the 2008 flood, which was just horrific.
Kristen- never ever accept a collect call if you don't know who it's from!!! I mean they can bill you all kinds of things.
@ Skittl,
We have a tractor with a front loader, which serves very well for clearing driveways and the street. Bob cleared off one driveway yesterday and the street before the buses came. But the bus for the junior high and high school kids got stuck in a ditch and never made its route.
This morning the subsequent snow has completely covered all cleared paths. Our little street is shut down and unless someons asks Bob to plow, he would rather leave the street and driveways thick for kids to enjoy.
We don't expect it to melt today. The temperature is not meant to get that warm, even if the sun comes out. And it is heaping mounds of snow!!
So, in Texas we just shut down. And wind or not, this is a blizzard for us.
I was a latchkey kid from age 11 to....whenever I stopped being a kid. I mean....I still let myself into the house and I have alot of toys. So, 11 to now.
If my cats had thumbs, they would be latchkey cats.
2nd Mom, such good daughters!
TamiJean, terrorizing brother? no good.
Anne, dinner AND laundry? gold stars for you. Your snow is lovely.
Skittl, good call, if you can drive to a hospital in case of emergency, probably not a latch-key kid.
Bobs(!!!), I love your cats.
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