She Needs To Sort Out Her Priorities...

[Ironclad Alibi]

The Well of Souls.

[/Chalker's one up.]

We have a new Well of Souls these days. Check out the Bright Empires series by Stephen Lawhead.

[cindybubbles]

How old is Little Timmy, anyway? Is he even her son, or is he her husband, just like Peter Griffin?

[Jetfire]

The Well of Souls.

[/Chalker's one up.]

So Timmy's an asexual plant creature now? Or maybe a blue furred satyr or a centaur or a ...

[Teskeria]

My youngest didn't clean her room... once... She was around 13 or 14. I did what my mom had done to my 3 younger sisters when they were around 10, 9, & 8. I said 'You have one hour to clean that room properly. If I have to come in there, I will be using a shovel and EVERYTHING that in there, with the exception of anything mine you 'borrowed' is going into the trash." BTW, it was trash night.
One hour later the shovel and I started bagging trash. 2 hours later the trash went into the can.
2 days later my youngest wanted to know where I had stashed the bags of her stuff because she wanted a particular shirt. Oh the fuss and screeching when I pointed out the trash had been picked up the day before. 'I didn't think you MEANT it!!!' She spent the rest of the school year wearing the same 5 or 6 outfits or borrowing clothes from her friends.
Strangely enough, I never had that problem again. Her room remained reasonably clean

[NateTheChops]

I Will never understand why people are so rude to someone on the phone who is helping them!!

The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory applies to phone conversations too. The phone provides a shield of distance and electricity that makes people feel they have the right to treat people at the other end like sludge.

Unfortunately, the average Dick and Jane could just complain to the phone company. So these people are forced to rely on the customer service industry as the recipients of whatever abuse they did not have the balls to issue to their (insert whomever is causing distress in their lives here).

[protege]

Dafuq kind of mother just......I don't even get it. I don't.

Me either, Blas.

Of course, whenever I've had work done at my place, I make sure there's a path...that you could turn the Titanic in. My place is a bit on the small side, so having extra room to bring that stove, water heater, or couch in...really is a bonus. Not so for the kittehs, which usually get locked downstairs.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Bark bark barkbarkbark bark

This is how it really happened.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Dafuq kind of mother just......I don't even get it. I don't.

Actually, that would sound like my Stepmom . . . only time my youngest sis would have a clean room was when Aunt Reebie would come visit - Reebee is a neat freak and will tear through a house like a tornado!

In my house, however, I was taught to clean my room when I was 5. Mom got tired one night of the toys in the floor (she'd had one too many times of coming home, kicking off her shoes, coming down the hallway barefoot and stepping on a Weeble Wobble) and brought the big, metal trashcan with the lid on it into the bedroom and threw anything and everything that was in the floor in it and hauled it outside!

Next thing they knew, I was outside climbing into the trashcan getting my stuff out.

Nevertheless, I kept my room picked up after that. Even to this day, I cannot stand anything in the floor that's not supposed to be.

And little Timmy wouldn't have any tv set or any toys if he lived in my house - I'd haul everything outside and leave it on the hill for the dumpster divers to have. And if little Timmy wanted to have a fit about it, he can go live in the doghouse and I'll bring Buddy inside and see how he likes those grapes.

Even my brother is the same way . . . he goes through a box of Swiffer refills every two weeks.

[Grendus]

I don't get her kind either.

But I get her kids

Well, her kid's cars

Again

And again

And again

And again

They just don't seem to understand following rules. Gee, wonder who instilled (or didn't) that idea in their heads? Hmmmm, that's a puzzler.

No problem. Mommy will pay for him to get it back. Here's her credit card...

[dalesys]

Are you trying to tell us something? What's that? Timmie is down the well? Which one?

The Well of Souls.

[/Chalker's one up.]

[gerund]

Bark bark barkbarkbark bark

Are you trying to tell us something? What's that? Timmie is down the well? Which one?

[Racket_Man]

Maybe he fell down the well ... again.

Bark bark barkbarkbark bark

[Ironclad Alibi]

And quickly! I mean, has she even seen Timmy lately??

Maybe he fell down the well ... again.

[MoonCat]

Time for mom to get her shovel out and clear the crap out of Timmy's room. And quickly! I mean, has she even seen Timmy lately??

[emax4]

I think I would have said, "ok, well we will have a tech out there, but if he or she can't access the equipment, you'll be charged a non-refundable, non-negotiable service charge. It'll have to be paid upfront before a tech comes out there a second time..."