You decide: your kid or your beer?
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The 2012 Koala Challenge
I think we'll call this column an 'example' of a typical month for a while...keep picking up the badges, though!
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
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Angie
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Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
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6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
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Pete
"We were on a break..."
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Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
Nine or more points:
Angie
Stevie
Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
Eight points:
Seven points:
Six points:
6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
Five points:
Four points:
Sempra
Whirl (how'd he beat me?! That never happens!)
Three points:
3 McK
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Mar
Sylvia
One point
Pete
"We were on a break..."
Jenna
JJdeGoblin
Displease the Koala by neglecting your writing altogether and you may find yourself joining Sarah
on
KOALA SMACKDOWN
Displease the Koala even more and she may call in her slippery sidekick and put you on:
SUPER-SMACKDOWN!
Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
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12 comments:
I know there are a lot of people like that. They really should be removed from the gene pool. Or at least sterilized.
I watched this one guy very carefully strap his child into the backseat of his car. I mean he took a long time to do it. And then he drove straight across the middle of the parking lot without slowing down to see if anyone was coming down the aisles the way they were supposed to.
Seems like he was taking reasonable precautions to me.
If he'd slapped the brakes on at 30mph+, those cans would have become the equivalent of cannonballs. Add to that the CO2 and the sharp metal and we're talking Serious Health Hazard.
Behind the seat, the kid would have been OK. The driver's only mistake was not locking the kid in the boot or strapping him to the roof. And, at least he hadn't already drunk most of the beer...
Depends on the kid.
I know this is bad and all that, and it's more dangerous on the roads today than it used to be, etc. But I remember sitting on the floor of the front passenger side, next to the beer (that was in a brown paper bag with the open end strategically coupled to the floor AC vent for refrigeration purposes) because I thought it was fun... Don't think I'm actually making a point. Just wanted to share.
I am childless, so I've never had to make such an agonising choice. I could borrow someone else's kid, just to try the scenario out...
Excellent point, BT, but I would argue it also depends on the beer. The article doesn't mention the brand.
Conduit, when choosing between your beer and someone else's kid... it's a no-brainer. I don't think your test would be conclusive.
The real question here is, why didn't they put the beer on the kid's lap and strap them both in? Duh.
You know, there was something on one of those cop video shows where a woman put her kids in the trunk because she needed room for her beer in the back seat...
I wish I could recall which show now, but I did see that one fairly recently.
I haven't had children, but I'm afraid I'd be tempted to give them a roped tied to the bumper and a roller skate just on general principles!
A $750 is nothing compared to the verbal denutting that guy'd get if his wife saw that, and she had the sense God gave a goose.
Of course- she didshack up with the guy that made the beer vs. child decision - so maybe she sucks, too.
Or this guy isn't related to the kid - in which case - I sentence him to an hour in a locked room with the mother. Again, if she doesn't suck.
Based on this information, the only one of you shabby crew that I would trust to babysit my kids is Sarah.
Possibly Robin, but I suspect she'd ask if she could bring her boyfriend and I don't want her and EE doing whatever they do on MY sofa...
All I'm saying is that children heal but broken beer is forever.
Wow that is not even funny. Although the comments are funny. The story is not. But that is me with 3 kids and even a nasty little piece of shit needs to be strapped in because that is how I feel. Now a nasty little shit might get smacked around accidentally but they'd be strapped in.
Hey now, McK. We'd clean up afterward. At least I would.
Maybe old E's secretly very messy. I don't know.
$750 only? for how many simultaneous offenses?
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