Date: 2006-07-26 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pocketwitch.livejournal.com
That is just sad ...

Date: 2006-07-26 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
After announcing this, the mother/aunt/grandmother/? tried a couple of times to get him to agree ("Right? Right?"). The boy bounced along silently. He didn't look upset; but he was so, so quiet.

Date: 2006-07-27 01:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cyanocorax.livejournal.com
Good on him for not just going along with her and saying what she wants to hear.

Date: 2006-07-26 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
I'm going to hope he's young enough to be resilient....

Date: 2006-07-26 04:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xanath.livejournal.com
Oh, poor kid. :( I feel so sorry for him.

--Kris

Date: 2006-07-26 02:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
You know, the problem with developing the habit of keeping my eyes and ears open for interesting things to draw and new observations to record, is that I'm bound to overhear stuff like this.

Date: 2006-07-26 05:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com
That is so-ooo 20th century... Ooops, unlike when I was in the area as a kid, NYC keeps electing Republican mayors.

Dr. Phil

Date: 2006-07-26 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
Maybe so, but NYC is so angry with Republicans in general now (what with the whole "there are no national monuments in NYC" "the Empire State Building is just a tall office building," "the Brooklyn Bridge is just a bridge," "ports? what ports?" "send that anti-tarrrrrist money somewhere else!"); I'd be stacking up my Liberal Street Cred if I were a Republican trying to stay in office around here. At least, the general sentiment I hear (from non-Wall Street types) is, "Yeah, you're a Republican, but if you do a good job you do a good job--and WE'RE KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU." That, and "Turn my A/C back on, d@mmit!"

Date: 2006-07-26 04:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com
Hey, just because Con Ed couldn't figure out where to put the decimal point when counting people without power in Queens during a heat wave... Could've happened to anyone. Why the Mayor's Office would have NO reason to actually send someone OUT to Queens and see what was going on... I should stop mumbling before I actually say something which makes sense. By accident. (grin)

Dr. Phil

Date: 2006-07-26 01:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigsarahfan.livejournal.com
yay...i love people! *rolls eyes* what a great thing to say...good for her! oh, and she's smoking...i hope she didn't forget to blow the smoke in someone's face while spitting out such crap to her poor kid! a-hole!

Date: 2006-07-26 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
The conversation caught my ear not just because I was standing right next to them waiting to cross the street, but because the boy sounded so bright and happy telling mother/aunt/grandmother what he must have thought was a great new development in his life. That, and he was wearing a lime green somekinda sports shirt (soccer, football, basketball, whaddoiknow if it isn't baseball). I'd like to think the kid has a good chance of having some other role models around if they live in NYC.

And, yeah, she did make sure to blow her smoke at people walking by. It's just about impossible to navigate the sidewalks of Manhattan these days without getting stuck in a crowd of smokers somewhere along the way.

Date: 2006-07-26 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyleen66.livejournal.com
I kinda feel bad for the woman. She's so damned insecure that she's obviously pushing her own agenda on the kid.

But I have a feeling he's going to be fine. He's the one that humoring her.

Date: 2006-07-26 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
Let's hope! The woman did seem old enough to be the grandmother rather than mother, so maybe he has a buffer between him and her :P

Date: 2006-07-26 01:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liminalia.livejournal.com
Nooo....heterosexuals don't recruit, right? Hmmph.

Date: 2006-07-26 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com
Recruitment? Nah. Just making sure kids are carefully repressed.

Date: 2006-07-26 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigsarahfan.livejournal.com
carefully repressed? LOL! that's funny! i love it. no recruitment this year? darn! i was looking forward to the annual recruitment fair. i mean come on all that gayness and straightness in one room...it's just a gas.

Date: 2006-07-26 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com
The problem with the heterosexual recruitment fair was that they keep on having trouble finding someone to cater it... Wouldn't want to indulge in any stereotyping, after all. No... the real reason is that last year they declared Mission Accomplished, only to find out that it wasn't. NOW what do they do? (so sorry, I'm just in a wicked mood today)

Dr. Phil

Date: 2006-07-26 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bigsarahfan.livejournal.com
LOL! so true...the food was awful last year! they should have just ordered pizza or something. hahahahaha!
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