Is it me?

In fact, this whole "self-help" subject is still so taboo that it's changing the name of a certain new Buick....

http://finance.lycos.com/qc/news/story.aspx?story=36214782

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Trying out for the LaCrosse team!"

Later,
EV

By the way Rob, if you want to not be bored on this board, I think there is a potential slugfest about to start. Then again, I don't know if I want to pipe-in, hijack, throw in 2 cents or otherwise.

PS, sorry I called you a baby! I didn't mean it. Honest. ;)

I have a funny one........

The last time I visited my grandmother in Missouri she did something that NOBODY can do easily.....embarrass me.

Anyway, we were sitting around one day watching TV. My grandma looks over at me out of the blue and says "Tina, have you had sex dear? Do you enjoy it?"

The only other person in the room was my mother, and she just started laughing at the top of her lungs. I couldn't breathe. I was still trying to process what she had just asked me, and started asking me even more questions like "when you do enjoy sex, do you have that big O?" I swear this is what she said to me.

I just said something like "uh, sure grandma" and my face was as red as a cherry. Not only that, she went on to tell the story about HER first time doing certain things and by the end of hearing these stories I was literally in shock. It was also both hilarious and quite scary. The things grandma was telling me..........oh boy. She talked about sex as WELL as um, self-love. ;-) and RIGHT in front of my mother. I have never seen my mom laugh so hard in my life!

I miss my grandma. She was the type of lady who took no BS and told everyone EVERYTHING that was on her mind. She ticked off quite a few relatives because her honesty sometimes.

Grandma rocked!

-Tina

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^LMFAO
I love people in that "older" generation. Their bluntness is priceless. It's too bad not too many people from that generation get online. Wouldn't it be great to have some posters here on CB from the "Golden Age"? They would spice up the off-season and our "under 55" crowd for sure.

My grandma worked for Silver Dollar City for years too, and would take me there when I visited.

But yeah, I agree Scott, sometimes they can be so blunt, so frank about things! She was always like that......she had a GREAT sense of humor!

Hmm, now I know where I get my sense of humor and love for parks from. :-)

-Tina

My grandmother is the same type of person as well. Last Christmas, she went on and on about my grandfather (now passed) who was the "most excellent lover." I figured my grandmother was funny, and always had the edge to her, but this took the cake. I guess we forget they were young once, and are quite human as well.

Sometime you have to ask me, via email or IM, what happened when I talked back to my mother and father when I was 17. Granted, I was old enough, but I was always raised to respect my elders. This one time, though? ....it was brutal, and I totally scored! ;)

"totally scored!", Oedipus, smedipus........

Cool! Email me the story Rob, anytime! :-D

I don't recall my parents catching me doing anything, whether alone or with a boyfriend. I never really brought any guys to my parents home anyway. You have other places you can go, away from any parents.

A boyfriend and I almost got caught by a group a hikers in the woods at a local state park once. Now THAT was funny! I think they pretty much knew what JUST had happened but went about their business anyway. LOL! Priceless.

-Tina

I got caught having sausage smoked...but when you're in high school, and you don't have a place to go, it's all about PDA!

w00t!

Hickory or Cedar, Cedar being more proper on this site.

The best thing about high school were those away football games and overnight trips, especially for us band geeks. LOL!

It's amazing what you can get away with on those empty, dark buses while the game is going on........as far as drinking and smokin stuff that you shouldn't be smokin right before the halftime show. LOL!

-Tina

Like this one time, in band camp.............

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LOL....I remember walking with a couple friends in a local state park (Paynes' Prairie, was a lake only about 150 years ago, even had paddlewheelers...now it has bison, LOL). Anyhow, we walked RIGHT past a couple on their way out. I turned to snicker with my friends and immediately *realized* that only one of them noticed the woman was ummm, half-dressed....in that her dress covered WAY less than Janet Jackson's top. It was only put back on half-way, guess we interrupted 'em....good times! :)

By the way, Rob....it's just you...;)

P.S. Feeling any better about the off-season yet? :)

Since we're telling funny stories, my friend was babysitting this 5 year old boy one night and his mom was getting ready to leave. He came downstairs and went up to his mom. After pulling his pants down, he grabbed his stuff, and said "Look mommy, I'm as big as daddy!"

I feel sorry for daddy. :)

-Danny

Naw never been caught. Had a few close calls though. Yep.

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Im going to Hersheypark this year! My first visit since I was just a wee lad!

And just when all kinds of humorous threads pop up with newbie bashing galore, they all get closed.

"Wait. Wait. I make him better, Humperdinck suffers?"
"Humiliations galore!"

These stories about elderly outbursts are great. Usually when my grandparents say embarrassing things, it's racist, not sexual... but still funny in a twisted way.

i.e. The first time my wife's grandma saw my neighborhood, she saw some kids out playing and said, "Oh, you have black families in your area!" And every time my grandma sees Vijay Singh on TV, she says, "Now that's a good looking colored man." And my other grandma was going on about how all the Mexicans have ruined everything... never mind that she lives in the middle of nowhere and probably has never seen a Mexican in person...

I know Den, my mom's parents were the same way, but you have to remember they were brought up at a time where there were still "white" bathrooms and "colored" bathrooms and that was not strange to them.

I love the elderly, they can tell stories like it's nobody's business! My grandma (the one I mentioned in the thread earlier) was full of stories about anything and everything.