I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

This has been one day around here. My DH runs his own business out of our house because of the turn down of the economy lost the shop bummer. So our DD works for him. So while I play on this old computer DD works. Today I decided she should make chocolate chip cookies(see what all the talk of food does to me). So didn't have brown sugar so smart mom says lets make our own. DD says to me it does't look right. That's ok it will be fine. Then she says the dough itn't right. So smart mom decides to take matters into her own hands. Well the dang mixer just started smelling, DD says mom I thinks it's on fire. Brilliant mom says na, guess what DD was right.

Kids are kind of weird. 

I was a "bus kid" -- rode the bus to and from school every day and brought a lunch my mom packed with lots of love each morning.  Then the school system figured out a way to load us country kids back on a bus at noon and carry us to a newer elementary school that had a cafeteria.  (The kids that lived in the neighborhood near the school walked home for lunch.)  Even way back then, the school lunches were dirt cheap.  Twenty-five cents, maybe, or even less; and we weren't poor so that wasn't the reason.  The meals were hot -- prepared fresh (more or less) an hour or two before being served.

Our junior/senior (combined) high school also had a cafeteria; in fact, we weren't supposed to leave the building during the lunch hour.  I think everybody ate lunch in the cafeteria, or in the band or choir rooms if they had a hall pass.  I don't recall very many kids bringing bag lunches -- that wasn't something teenagers wanted to be caught doing.  OTOH, the lunches were mass-prepared and served up quickly, to enable us to get back to class.  I think lunch "hour" was half an hour, with maybe 5 minutes tacked on either end for the run down the hallways.  Heaven knows how we had time to hit the loo.

Like most public and parochial schools in the upper-midwest, we always had fish on Fridays.  Always.  It was often fish sticks, which were okay because we never had them at home; but sometimes they would serve creamed-tuna-on-biscuits.  Honestly, it tasted just fine (especially in retrospect); the biscuits were fresh and flaky.  But the whole thing looked like a dog had thrown up on your dinner plate, so the meal was rarely eaten.  Lots of wasted food in high school... 

In elementary school, one of the teachers on "lunch duty" positioned herself next to the garbage cans as a food monitor.  Anyone who tried to throw away uneaten food was sent back to his/her seat to finish eating.  My sister had to drink creamed peas and carrots through a straw once, because she'd tried to conceal them in her milk carton and got caught.  Pretty darn funny, if you asked me.  I pretended I didn't know her.  It was safer that way.

otter

I hate to admit it but I liked tuna pea wiggle. My mom made it I never had i at school. Like tna cassarole but without the noodles. I have not cooked with mushroom soup in years. I think it is bleeech now.

Otter, I didn't realize we went to the same elementary school!

In elementary school, one of the teachers on "lunch duty" positioned herself next to the garbage cans as a food monitor.  Anyone who tried to throw away uneaten food was sent back to his/her seat to finish eating.  [One of my friends] had to drink creamed peas and carrots through a straw once, because she'd tried to conceal them in her milk carton and got caught. 

It really is a shame to see how much food is tossed in the trash daily.

I was skinny, too. Those were the days.

I weighed 125 lbs at 22 - and I'm 6'1" ... skinny didn't begin to describe it. 

I went to a Hallowe'en party once as a crayon -- put a conical hat on my head and a yellow wrapper around my middle.  It was quite amusing!

When I was in 6th grade we had a Halloween costume contest. There was one girl who showed up wearing a diaper and nothing else. It was really embarrassing. I often wonder if she ever thinks of it.

I know, CS !  I went to a Catholic elementary school in Wisconsin -- Otter's was in Minnesota, and I don't whether public or parochial...  I'm a little stunned to see we witnessed a nearly identical scene in the cafeteria!  Was there some upper-Midwest training camp for lunchroom monitors of all denominations??!!  Something the Lutheran, Catholic and public schools could all agree on??!!

The Lutheran school I attended believed in corporal punishment too.  ouch!  I couldn't wait to get to public school.

Bren

CS -- thanks!  I actually got it from my mother, who used to say, "Be careful about the boys you go out with.  Murderers don't have a big M on their foreheads ... that's how they can get close enough to murder you!"  I come from a nice, careful, Midwestern family that looks both ways even on one-way streets before crossing -- at the corner, of course.  Might as well get a little twisted humor out of it!

L

Gees I was a double A till after my first kid. Wish I was that small now nothing would be hiding in these boobs.

Barbara, I got teased for being so small. I don't think it makes a difference anyone who is different will be teased.

Diagnosis: 6/1/2010, ILC, <1cm, Stage Ib, Grade 1, 0/1 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-

HHAHAHAHAHA! I didn't even wear a bra until my early 30s. I have no children, but apparently my estrogen-making factory kicked in and I blew up to a 36D in a couple of years. As DH puts it, when we met when I was 38, I had a rack.