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Step Away From The Charmin!
Jul. 28th, 2005 09:19 amI'm flabbergasted by this article. Adult children are stealing from their parents, taking clothing, razor blades, toilet paper, bottles of wine, furniture and even family heirlooms. The parents tolerate this behavior and are even amused by it.
What the hell? This is so incredible that I want to believe it's some kind of joke. If I stole things from my parents, I wouldn't be invited back to their home.
My grandmother on my mother's side once decided that she needed to make decisions regarding the disposition of her things upon the event of her death. Her method was to discreetly label each item with the name of the sister she intended to it to go to.
Apparently, somebody didn't like Granny's decision for one of her photographs, a handsome photo of my grandfather in his military uniform. This was the only photo my grandmother had left of him in uniform, and somebody stole it. My mother was appalled.
In response, she collected all the family photos she could get her hands on, carefully photographed each one and reproduced a copy for herself and her sisters. The realization that photos could be copied must have shamed the thief, because the missing photo eventually returned. That, and the knowledge that you could never even display that photo where your family might see it.
The children — no matter what their age — described in the article are incredibly self-centered and ill-mannered. I just find it so hard to believe. It's not as if toilet paper was so expensive that you can't afford to purchase your own.
And I suspect that the parents are less amused by it than they are tolerant only because it speaks very loudly to their own failings as parents, powerless to instill good values in their spawn. But they'll make a joke of it in order to save face.
How brazen these kids are, to have their names printed in the paper in an article that cries out, 'I'm a thief! I steal from my parents!'
Absolutely incredible.
What the hell? This is so incredible that I want to believe it's some kind of joke. If I stole things from my parents, I wouldn't be invited back to their home.
My grandmother on my mother's side once decided that she needed to make decisions regarding the disposition of her things upon the event of her death. Her method was to discreetly label each item with the name of the sister she intended to it to go to.
Apparently, somebody didn't like Granny's decision for one of her photographs, a handsome photo of my grandfather in his military uniform. This was the only photo my grandmother had left of him in uniform, and somebody stole it. My mother was appalled.
In response, she collected all the family photos she could get her hands on, carefully photographed each one and reproduced a copy for herself and her sisters. The realization that photos could be copied must have shamed the thief, because the missing photo eventually returned. That, and the knowledge that you could never even display that photo where your family might see it.
The children — no matter what their age — described in the article are incredibly self-centered and ill-mannered. I just find it so hard to believe. It's not as if toilet paper was so expensive that you can't afford to purchase your own.
And I suspect that the parents are less amused by it than they are tolerant only because it speaks very loudly to their own failings as parents, powerless to instill good values in their spawn. But they'll make a joke of it in order to save face.
How brazen these kids are, to have their names printed in the paper in an article that cries out, 'I'm a thief! I steal from my parents!'
Absolutely incredible.
