Moony wrote:
Then again, you were a kid at some point too. We all were. Everyone in the world was once a small child.
I've had someone try to use that sort of logic on me.
Her child kept sneaking up on me and biting me. Hard. Really hard. It was taking every ounce of my focus to keep track of the kid to try to keep from getting muched on. I finally said, "can you please control this damned kid and make hims top biting me?"
She said, "you should have more tolerance! You were a child once, too."
I said, "I was a junkie once too, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let someone sit and shoot up in my living room."
Which shut her up. And she made the kid sit next to her.
(And I was lying for effect because I was so pissed off. I've done drugs but I was never a needle junkie.)
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So they somehow become better once they turn a certain age?
They sure do! They get toilet trained and generally socialized and eventually the ravages of age make them slower, quieter, and calmer. The ones who never learn to stop biting people are eventually regulated and/or institutionalized because what was "cute" and "tolerable" as a child becomes "criminal" as an adult.
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09 Jun 2010, 11:46 pm
