One of my favorite lines of all time was from The Cosby Show. Vanessa had come home after being beat up at school and Mom & Dad Huxtable asked what had happened. Vanessa replied that the girls beat her up because she was rich.

In turn, Dad replies (not the exact quote), "Your Mom and I are rich. You are not rich."

Bwah-hah. I know that it was a rather dorky saying, but no matter what...it's so true. My Mom used to use versions of it all the time. Her best one was when I would say, "Stay out of my room." She'd just turn and grin and say, "Well, technically your Dad & I own that room. We just let you stay in it. If you want, we can put all of your stuff outside and then it can be 'your lawn'."

It burned me at the time. But, I saw her point years later.

There's been a few of those moments today with The Diva and she is in ramp up mode for the evening. Snow days cultivate boredom. Boredom with her leads to trying to create drama with BM and FDH.

She has been in "me, me, me...mine, mine, mine" and "there's nothing here to eat/drink/look at" mode for a few hours now. I was selfish at 17, I admit. But I did have respect for my folks. Sometimes I didn't like them very much and they made me want to spit fire -- but I didn't see the need to push them to their breaking points every time I was bored.

(They would have never let me anyway. I would have had every perk taken away and been grounded for a year.)

I think because I complained about soda yesterday, karma brought it up again to me today. lol. She was also on machine gun complaint mode: too tired to study, she doesn't like plain chips, she wanted mcdonald's, she needs a new cell phone, she hates our computer, she deserves her own car, etc.

FDH told Diva to drink something other than soda with dinner. Diva lipped at FDH that the reason she was drinking soda was because there is "nothing else to drink". (Even though the fridge is full of juice, milk and water.) FDH shrugged at me as she walked away. I jerked out the remaining bottles and put them in the garage fridge. 10 minutes later FDH returned them saying, "Let's not start anything. Ok?"

I didn't. Start anything with him that is. I will be making real sure those bottles go flat, though. }:)

I couldn't help but think that if I would have pulled that with my Dad...he would have grabbed the bottle, poured it down the sink, told me to go without a drink with dinner, and then it would be water and only water for the next 2 weeks.

I was wondering, is that the difference now? I mean, is the way my parents taught me throughout the 80's & 90's considered 'old school'? What ever happened to respect of others?