# Six years in the making

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-years-in-the-making/148927>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 16, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-years-in-the-making/148927 "2003-01-16T05:26:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-years-in-the-making/148927/21 "2003-01-16T18:34:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MissTake \*  
> \*\*Oh, and BTW, I store up phrases learned from The Pit for future reference. \*\*

Oh, see, now, that could get you into trouble.

“Well, whoop-de-mother-fucking-do. When come back, bring pie.”  
dead silence  
(chirp, chirp, chirp)  
“Okay, let me try that again…”

Congratulations on having an ex-relationship that works. That’s cool.

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**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-years-in-the-making/148927/22 "2003-01-16T18:52:00Z")

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_You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!_

😃

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**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-years-in-the-making/148927/23 "2003-01-16T19:39:36Z")

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LilMiss was more amused than terrified at my outburst.  
I grew up in a very quiet house. Anger was not something that could be expressed.  
And I have a temper.  
It did not work well for me, I bottled things up and then would explode.  
It has taken a lot of learning, but I do have control over my temper now. I also have worked with LilMiss to understand anger and how to express it. Last night flew in the face of what I try to be, but…  
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.  
And as far as embarassing her, well, we weren’t really in public. Would I do this in the mall? Of course not!

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-years-in-the-making/148927/24 "2003-01-16T20:14:48Z")

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> _originally posted by cuauhtemoc_  
> We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank

You had a brown paper bag? All we had when we lived in the septic tank was a strip of old worn-out newspaper. It was even a really boring editorial. I am _so_ jealous!😃

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