FCM posted from work! :eek:
This is what I know about Maryland Fried Chicken. It’s good chicken. The tater tots are pretty jake too.
Just a quick hello to all. Taters -I would do exactly the same thing. Maybe he is on the up and up, but the consequences if he is not are pretty great. I would not be comfortable with him coming at all, but given her age–I would also have acquiesed, with similiar conditions.
I am not so much concerned with purity and innocence as I am hard headed pragmatic. Why face an STD or unwanted pregnancy if avoiding it is easy?
I seriously have to question the motivation of a 20 y/o male wanting to continue and strengthen a 16 year old female. Let us hope that reality bites (she may well be mature, but I hope she still giggles at stuff etc–something that a 20 y/o thinks he is past) for both of them. Sounds harsh, and I usually advocate for friends of all ages, but not this time. I “dated” a 19 year old when I was 16–this meant that he came over after school (when my mother was still at work), and we talked and made out (I believe second base is the antiquated term). I never met his friends or his parents. He never met mine. It was all very odd and I am lucky that he didn’t press his chances (once he muttered that I had made him come. At 16, I was so naive that I had no idea what he meant! Let’s hope your daughter is more savvy). Looking back, he really treated me like shit, but I loved the “status” that an “older man” gave me.
Sorry to embarass you with this pathetic story, but again, he meant me no harm, and it could be argued that he did me no harm, in that I never got a disease or pregnant. But the age gap messed up my young head for quite some time. If I could go back, I would not do that again.
I’m with you on this one. I’ve been really busy the last couple of days doing my work and the stuff for Roundboy that can’t wait until he gets back next week. But it’s been incredibly slow yesterday afternoon and this morning.
Spats, congrats! You have found yourself as the fulcrum in an on-going power struggle between these two people. In military parlance, they are “protecting their bowls of rice.” Enjoy it while it lasts!
Taters your plans sound entirely reasonable.
Mornin’, y’all.
I’m a bit of a mental wreck at the moment, because the VunderLair changes in less than 24 hours. I got to bed at 10 last night, and woke up at 5:30 today, which is the longest I’ve slept in a while. I still haven’t figured out if my 3 AM insomnia was real, or dreamed. The dreaming does happen to me, and it really messes with my head the next day.
Wik, I hope you get the playful daughter straightened out…
:smack:
Taters, not Wik…
See what I mean about being stressed? I can’t keep the players straight without a program…
Why isn’t it Friday yet? :mad:
Taters, I think you’re doing the right thing. You don’t know this guy at all, and he’s much older.
MGB, (((hugs)))
Morning! Time to play stupid flash games until work! Well, interspersed with chores.
Hee, it is my Friday. 
Hey, you all have seen my picture - do I look Chinese? Someone stopped me to ask me for directions this morning and he said the building he was looking for was “near a Chinese restaurant”. When I told him I didn’t know where the Chinese restaurant was he looked baffled and said, “Oh, you’re not Chinese?” :dubious:
Weird.
One of the biggest ongoing <snerk>s in the pathetics lives of VWife and myself is some pretentious princess who appeared on Judge Joe Brown and insisted her [del]psychotic rat[/del] dog was a she-wa-wa. :rolleyes:
You Asians all look the same.
Good morning, MMP!
Taters, you sound like a very caring mom. I believe your rules are good ones. I would be wary, too!
I can’t keep up with the MMP this week. Sheesh!
Congrats and good luck and sorry’s to whoever needs one…
taters, i DID raise a teen-age daughter, she’s 20 now, and I think you’re doing exactly the right thing. Our Kid always knew that if we didn’t know who she was going to be with, that we would before they went anywhere. Anyone she wanted to meet that had any reservations about hanging with us probably wasn’t going to earn her trust either, when it all came down to it.
BWAHAHA - I really didn’t expect that, especially coming from you, Bobbio. I’m still chuckling.
wipes tears out of eyes
Now that I’ve actually read everything that happened last night, my responses …
Taters–I agree that this guy needs inspection. If it turns out that you like him and you think he’s not a complete wanker, I don’t think letting them go out alone to get a cup of coffee or something would be out of the question. I did a lot of stupid things when I was sixteen, so I’m not advocating you send 'em out with a twenty and no curfew, but if they really are friends, your daughter would probably appreciate a little time to talk without her parents hanging over her. But, as I said, you definitely need to check him out thoroughly first.
BusMan–Cheering up the blues is what we do here. Failing that, we can make snarky comments about any topic you choose to give us. 
Mika–I don’t think I would pass you on the street and think “Hey, she looks Chinese.”
GAAAAH! New Girl. Stop talking to me. I trained you on this for two weeks. I wrote down step-by-step instructions. Which, when you come over to my desk to try it yourself, you completely ignore in favor of just asking me how to do it. The reason you have to learn it is so that you can do it when I’m not here. Gaaaah. :mad:
I need only take Drae out of context as my cite:
Hooray for greased lightning MMPs! Helps me get through my week faster. Well, it feels like it’s going faster, anyway.
The refurbishing of my hosts’ living room is nearing completion. The new wallpaper and half of the new carpeting is in place, and the rest of it goes on today. Then the furniture has to be moved back in, and it’s all set. It’ll be nice to have places to sit again, and to be able to move through the front hallway, which is where the couch and loveseat went.
Taters, others have said it better already. So I’ll just say “You go girl!” and leave it at that.
Senor Autobus Muchacho - I get to use my favorite piece of advice here. “Don’t think you can - know you can.” We’re all pulling for you, of course.
VBob: nicely done, my friend. Nicely done.
Today I get to take more data in the magnetically quiet region of the base, just like I did on my first day at the new job. Fortunately, we have a new 24 bit six channel digitizer, which means all I have to do is swing the sensor around and it’ll beep when it gets a data point. No more changing the name of the vector in the code or rotating it on that angle thinger. Yay!
Speaking of “Yay!” I know you’re all totally excited to read the next pun:
If you think this is good, just wait until you see some of the ones I’ve already written for next week. The good ship lollipun is ready to set sail! 
Taters you are doing the right thing. Especially the parts about him not staying in your house and about either Mr. Taters or you or both being present at anytime they are together. Of course Mr. Taters could always offer to take him up to Seattle to see the sights and he could “accidentally” fall off the Space Needle. I’m not suggestin’ that or anything, it’s just a thought.
So
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Taters, erring on the side of caution may prevent remorse - perhaps you could show your daughter one or two simple self defense things (like stepping on his instep - or the heel of her hand smacked into his nose) just in case - may I suggest that you suggest if they do go out for coffee or some such, that they stay in public, well lit places
SHIT, man.