Text 32369, 83 rader
Skriven 2013-01-07 14:20:00 av Nancy Backus (62549.cooking)
  Kommentar till text 32322 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: famiglia 40
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-06-13  10:30 <=-

 ML>> I got dragged into their disputes from an early age.
 NB>> Considering that you were one of the older children, apparently it

 ML> Oldest. Then my sister, 2 1/2 years later. Then my brother,
 ML> 18 1/2 years after that. 

That's what I thought I remembered...  Not that different from me,
except that I have more siblings, and currently less responsibility. 

 ML> It didn't get really hairy until
 ML> my standardized test results came back, and after that I was
 ML> arbiter of all things: both parents worshipped standardized
 ML> tests, as do all Chinese I have met from the academic and
 ML> mercantile class, except me, who have divorced from these
 ML> people through steady downward mobility, which I hope stops
 ML> fairly soon. It's an unfair burden on someone just out of
 ML> infancy to be called upon to mediate adult issues, such as
 ML> Eisenhower or Stevenson (I was for the former) and whether
 ML> abortion was okay (I was an "everybody's got a right to
 ML> liver", but what did I know at the age of 6 or 7?).

High scores do not wisdom (or understanding) impart... though they may
indicate good aptitudes...  Thankfully my parents only appreciated the
test results as a tool... of course, by the time I was 7, I had four
younger siblings (and a mother) to be mothering, so perhaps their
attention was elsewhere, too...  ;)

 ML> I was obviously a failure, because they never got along,
 ML> and nor did they get divorced, which was my best solution
 ML> for them.

Expecting you to mediate the issues perhaps, but also not following the
answers... sounds typical adult irrational behaviour to me...  ;0
 
 NB>> didn't take that long for them to grow to dislike each other...

 ML> I noticed the currents early, when I was one and something,
 ML> when my mother ran away the first time (she periodically did).
 ML> Reconstructing the timeline, she must have just gotten
 ML> pregnant with my sister. She eventually came back but
 ML> periodically ran off until after my brother was born, then
 ML> some kind of anxiety disorder totally took over and aside
 ML> from trips to the grocery and whatnot, she was housebound
 ML> for ever.
 ML> Later on, when I was gone, it had gone from mutual fear and
 ML> disdain to something approaching hatred (at least on my
 ML> mother's end).

Sad end to things...
 
 ML>> Big industry, that Christmas cookie encouragement. Flour
 ML>> companies, sugar companies, sprinkles manufacturers, "women's"
 ML>> magazines (for reading which I was made to feel funny as a
 ML>> child), the TV food networks. Lots of fingers in that pie.
 NB>> To say nothing of the equipment etc companies... cookie sheets,
 NB>> mixers, cookie presses, parchment paper, tins...

 ML> Arg. Christmas. Though I am mostly a secular person I am
 ML> not a venal one.
 
When I was in high school, one year we learned a lovely round in chorus,
based on Scrooge's take...  Bah, Humbug! Christmas, what nonsense, a
plot just to waste good time and money, preposterous I say! Ignore such
childish Bosh!  (when repeating the round, the Bosh turns into the Bah
at the top)...  There are still seasons when I let loose with a proper
rendition thereof...  [g]

 ML> Title: Ham Apple Pie
 NB> Another one I have not a whit of desire to try...  ;)

 ML> Whyever not? ;)

Exactly.  [g]

ttyl       neb

... She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

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