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I am NOT going to Michaels craft store anymore....
While Matthew was in one of his cabinetmaking classes last night, I swung
around to Michaels to look for *one* pattern book (the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" that I saw on line and thought was so sweet). I ended up coming out with.... FOUR pattern books! Bad Gemini... bad, bad bad!!! *sigh* Thank goodness there was a 40% off coupon to help out. ;o) *hugs* Gemini |
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I am NOT going to Michaels craft store anymore....
"Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking wrote in message ... While Matthew was in one of his cabinetmaking classes last night, I swung around to Michaels to look for *one* pattern book (the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" that I saw on line and thought was so sweet). I ended up coming out with.... FOUR pattern books! Bad Gemini... bad, bad bad!!! *sigh* Yes, naughty. Hold out your hand ... Thank goodness there was a 40% off coupon to help out. ;o) Excuses don't help - your hand - NOW! *hugs* And don't try soft soaping! Mary |
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I am NOT going to Michaels craft store anymore....
Not Likely wrote:
While Matthew was in one of his cabinetmaking classes last night, I swung around to Michaels to look for *one* pattern book (the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" that I saw on line and thought was so sweet). I ended up coming out with.... FOUR pattern books! Bad Gemini... bad, bad bad!!! *sigh* Thank goodness there was a 40% off coupon to help out. ;o) *hugs* Gemini Sounds like a conversation Gail and I just had Hugs & God bless, Dennis & Gail |
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I am NOT going to Michaels craft store anymore....
"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t... "Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking wrote in message ... While Matthew was in one of his cabinetmaking classes last night, I swung around to Michaels to look for *one* pattern book (the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" that I saw on line and thought was so sweet). I ended up coming out with.... FOUR pattern books! Bad Gemini... bad, bad bad!!! *sigh* Yes, naughty. Hold out your hand ... Thank goodness there was a 40% off coupon to help out. ;o) Excuses don't help - your hand - NOW! *hugs* And don't try soft soaping! Mary LOL Thank you for the laugh... after the initial nightmare it brought back in a fleeting moment. --- At first when I read that I had haunting memories of being an 8 year old back in grade three where my teacher absolutely had it out for me... every single day (I kid you not) she would send me to the principal to get the strap even though I hadn't done anything (I was terrified to do anything because of the way she was with me). Finally after a couple of months of that (and keeping it to myself) and after one particular bad strapping that stands out clearly in my mind to this day... (All I had done was to ask to borrow a fellow student's eraser. The teacher slammed her ruler on my desk and screeched at me "Go to the principal's office NOW." It did no good to try to explain, because she would never listen to me at all and that day was no different, she responded with "I know if you did something or not, do not argue with me. You are a BIG FAT PIG, now get to the principal's office like you are told to do!" The principal was the same when I tried to explain that I hadn't done anything, saying "You MUST have done something or the teacher wouldn't send you here for the strap, now hold out your hands." Later at recess, of course... kids *will* be kids, and after hearing the teacher call it to me, they insisted on being relentless in calling me a BIG FAT PIG... "You MUST be, the teacher said so!!!" Yes, I was overweight, but not to that point... and kids always teased me anyway, and my Mom had told me not to let them see it hurt and instead to just walk away... so I did, no matter how much I wanted to run and cry.)... I was sitting at the table for lunch with my hands (swollen) under the table. My Mom told me to get busy and eat or I would be late going back to school. I started to cry and said I couldn't pick up the spoon (we were having soup). She asked why and I told her my hands were hurting. When she asked to see my hands and saw how swollen they were, she asked what had happened (not suspecting for a minute that it had anything to do with the teachers or principal) and when I told her, and explained that I hadn't done anything and had been getting the strap everyday since school started, she went totally white and told my brother to make sure I ate my lunch. She stormed out the door and across the other side of town (walking, I might add... she never had her driver's license) and into the principal's office. Now you have to understand, she was only a little lady (5' 1/2") but she was mighty when she lost her temper... and she had a hot Irish/French Newfie (Newfoundland, for those who don't know) temper that took a lot to come out, but when it did... everyone moved, and fast. A few of the other students who were in my brother's grade 8 class across the hall told my brother later what had happened. Apparently she didn't even knock on the door, just flung it opened and stormed in leaving it open behind her. She leaned on the desk and lit into the principal saying "My child is sitting home right now unable to pick up her spoon to eat her soup because you strapped her so hard that her little hands are swollen to almost the size of footballs. She tried to tell you that she had done nothing, but instead of investigating you just assumed the teacher was right and strapped her.... and from what I hear this has been happening EVERY blessed day since the beginning of the school year. A normal person would be suspicious seeing the same child everyday, but you just don't give a sh*t and swing your mighty strap anyway because you think it gives you power over these children. I'll tell you what... you EVER strap my child again, and I will come back here and use the God D*mned thing on YOU! Is that PERFECTLY clear?" According to the other students who heard and saw (naturally they went to the doorway of their class to see what was going on, considering their teacher was the principal and therefore there was no one in there with them), the principal was leaning back in his chair away from my Mom and just answered "Yes, it's clear." when she finished. Then she went up the stairs to my classroom and called the teacher out into the hall and lit into her too. After telling her off about sending me to get the strap everyday and threatening to introduce her to it herself if she sent me again... she then went up one side of her and down the other (she told me this years later, and a few of the older kids had overheard and told my brother this too) with "And how dare YOU call my child, an EIGHT year old no less, a big fat pig!! Number one she is a CHILD who's feelings are hurt very easily, number two she is not that much overweight and even if she was SO WHAT? she is still a child and should never be spoken to like that, and number three because of your big mouth all the other children in her classroom are calling her that horrendous name. And lastly... you might want to take a look in a mirror before you ever think about calling any child fat again! If she or any other child bothers you so very much that you feel the need to pick on her relentlessly by sending her to the principal everyday for the strap for no reason at all, and to resort to namecalling of that child, then you should NOT be a teacher. Teachers are supposed to teach children to enjoy what they learn, not terrify them of school. No wonder she went from liking school as she did from kindergarten through grade two, to feeling sick almost everyday and not wanting to go to school... YOU have her terrified to come here, and YOU have made her hate being here at all. If I hear of any further mistreatment of my child, I WILL be reporting you and that thing downstairs in the office that is supposed to be in charge of the entire school to the schoolboard. Good day!" and she turned and walked away. Now, apparently after school that afternoon, my Mom got a phonecall from the principal asking her to come retrieve her son. My older brother and his best friend (who were both grade 8 students in the principal's class) stayed after school and were out on the sidewalk waiting for him to come off the school property. They told him outright as they were leaving the school that they wouldn't touch him on the school property because they knew they would be suspended, but they wanted to let him know what kind of fear an 8 year old felt having to go face him everyday for the strap and just let him feel some of the pain that he inflicted on my hands day after day. They were 13 - 13 year olds who were not very big at all (in fact my brother was rather small for his age and his friend was pretty thin), but the principal was afraid to come off the school property until my parents went over to get the boys away from there and talk to them about not seeking revenge for my pain and anguish. --- Holy cow... that kind of opened up a can of worms, didn't it? They say opening up about things is a good stress reliever. hehehe *hugs* Gemini |
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I am NOT going to Michaels craft store anymore....
On Apr 14, 1:50 pm, "Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking
wrote: While Matthew was in one of his cabinetmaking classes last night, I swung around to Michaels to look for *one* pattern book (the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" that I saw on line and thought was so sweet). I ended up coming out with.... FOUR pattern books! Bad Gemini... bad, bad bad!!! *sigh* Thank goodness there was a 40% off coupon to help out. ;o) Uh-oh! And will you actually use that book????? Higs, Katherine |
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On 14 Apr, 23:22, "Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking
wrote: Holy cow... that kind of opened up a can of worms, didn't it? They say opening up about things is a good stress reliever. hehehe *hugs* Gemini- {{{hugs}}} But didn't it feel good that your mom told-off those idiots at the school? And that your big brother wanted to protect you as well? Erin |
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I am NOT going to Michaels craft store anymore....
"Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking wrote in message ... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking wrote in message ... .... LOL Thank you for the laugh... after the initial nightmare it brought back in a fleeting moment. --- .... Holy cow... that kind of opened up a can of worms, didn't it? They say opening up about things is a good stress reliever. hehehe That's a terrible story but it had a good ending. I'm very sorry to have opened the can - in a way - but pleased because we all need reminding to consider our motives from time to time. Your story reminded me of a time when I must have been about the same age. I used to get my knuckles rapped with two rulers held together but it was mostly for dreaming or being messy. My mother didn't like my dreaming either, I wish I'd known enough to say that Michelangelo was a dreamer, Beethoven was a dreamer .. etc. But of course I've never dreamed to those heights :-) As for being messy, it was bad enough when we wrote on slates or in pencil in precious (wartime paper shortage) books but when we graduated to pens which were dipped in ink I simply couldn't control the black stuff, it ended up on my fingers, my clothes, the desk and of course all over the pages. I was a clever child but not neat. A teacher sent me to the headmistress, Mrs Wilkinson. She was a tall, dark haired, rather fearsome figure. All head were fearsome in my mind but that was just me, I know better now that Mrs W Wasn't that tall and she was a kind and generous, if stern, woman. Mrs Wilkinson looked at the book, looked at me and said, shaking her head, "What ARE we to do with you, Mary?" She didn't punish me but I remember that incident more than any other except when I played the Elfin King in the school play as a five year old and when I burst into tears when told I'd passed my entrance exam to high school - the only girl in the class and the first in the history of the school. Still a messy dreamer though ... and the typewriter was a blessing to me because it meant that I could write letters which could be read by the recipient :-) Mary I trembled in front of her and handed my book. |
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I am NOT going to Michaels craft store anymore....
On Apr 14, 12:50 pm, "Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking
wrote: While Matthew was in one of his cabinetmaking classes last night, I swung around to Michaels to look for *one* pattern book (the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" that I saw on line and thought was so sweet). I ended up coming out with.... FOUR pattern books! Bad Gemini... bad, bad bad!!! *sigh* Thank goodness there was a 40% off coupon to help out. ;o) *hugs* Gemini Of for shame for shame! (Hmmm...I better get down to Michael's, myself!). Wendy |
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"YarnWright" wrote in message
... Not Likely spun a FINE 'yarn': snipped *most* of it to here, to make my point: --- Holy cow... that kind of opened up a can of worms, didn't it? They say opening up about things is a good stress reliever. hehehe *hugs* Gemini end quoted Gem/slash.Not Likely. . . and you can do that HERE, with US *anytime*!! Hugs, Noreen Thank you! ) *hugs* Gem |
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"Katherine" wrote in message
oups.com... On Apr 14, 1:50 pm, "Not Likely" notinthislifetime@yougottabejoking wrote: While Matthew was in one of his cabinetmaking classes last night, I swung around to Michaels to look for *one* pattern book (the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" that I saw on line and thought was so sweet). I ended up coming out with.... FOUR pattern books! Bad Gemini... bad, bad bad!!! *sigh* Thank goodness there was a 40% off coupon to help out. ;o) Uh-oh! And will you actually use that book????? Higs, Katherine I *hope* so... eventually! If not for Matthew, then for someone else. I can't do the yarnwork as quickly anymore, or even as often... but I still do enjoy doing a row or two whenever I can. ) By the way... one of the books was the "Love Me Tender Baby Afghans" (I wasn't actually sure I would even find it anymore, but I lucked out), the other larger book (the most expensive of the four) was Leisure Arts "Color-Bright Creatures" which has 8 Animal Afghans in it... *really* sweet. The two smaller books are Leisure Arts "First Choice Ripple Afghans" and RedHeart "Creature Comforts" Family Slippers that are really cute. Even if I don't get around to doing them soon, the books don't eat anything, and when I'm up to it (and the weather is right... I hate doing yarnwork in the heat of summer, so that is out) they will still be there waiting for me to give them a try. *hugs* Gem |
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