The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question. "Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?" I replied I had a drug problem when I was young:
- I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals.
- I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.
- I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults.
- I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher, or if I didn't put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me.
- I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profanity.
- I was drug out to pull weeds in mom's garden and flower beds and cocklebur's out of dad's fields.
- I was drug to the homes of family, friends and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline, or chop some firewood; and, if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the woodshed.
Those drugs are still in my veins and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, or think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin; and, if today's children had this kind of drug problem, America would be a better place.
God bless the parents who drugged us.
Thanks Dilbert... I, too, remember being drugged. More often than it should have been. Guess I was a slow learner. But I agree with you that if more kids had this type of drug the country would be a better place for all.
- Ziel
- 05-02-2010, 08:03 PM
lol I am always talking to my cousin and this post is funny as hell because of what we talk about. I think I will email that to him. He will have a big laugh.
We always talk about how we grown up and how kids are now. i keep telling him no one shot up a school or did these stupid things kids today do because back when we were growing up there was no time out or go to your room.
It was bring me the leather belt and drop your pants for this ass whipping you about to get for fucking up.
My godchild is a nightmare to my moms because she never gives him any spankings. She just makes him sit on the sofa. I go over there and see him acting like that and get after him and he stops right there because he knows I will spank his little butt if he keeps being bad.
Now I am not saying to kick the shit out your kids by no means. But a good spanking can correct a child's path real fast.
