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THE BEST OF
From Our July,
1993 Edition |
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 ll, after
watching Kelly &
Margaret's whale vacation videos from Boston, I'm madder
than George Perrot at a weight watcher clinic. These
McCarty kids are spoiled with all these fancy schmancy
vacations.
When
I was a kid, we didn't go on vacations. I remember one
year I had to write a paper on "What I Did on My
Summer Vacation". I turned in a paper with the word
"Nothin'" written across the top. We didn't do
anything, and we didn't go anywhere, but we loved it
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We
didn't need to go anywhere to have fun. Our Mom and Dad
would send us off to the local park.
At the park, we were taken care of by some deranged,
shell-shocked, ex-Vietnam vet park director with missing
digits. He would teach us how to make plaques, lace, and
once in a while he would uncork a fire hydrant and let us
run through the water screaming like crazed animals. Except
for being molested, we loved it!
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And
how about Rick. His kids have been to Cedar Point, Disney
World, and lots of other amusement parks. I'm sick of those
kids, "Ohhh, we went on Space Mountain",
"Ohhh we LIKE the Demon Drop".
Yeah, I bet when they're on the ride, they are
screaming like babies, with their eyes closed and puking
their corndogs all over their parents. When I was a kid, if
we wanted a ride, we got in an empty cardboard box at the
top of the basement stairs and pushed ourselves off.
Sometimes we got hurt and sometimes we didn't, but we
loved it anyway!
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Don't
spoil your kids with these powderpuff vacations. Instead of
out of town trips, take them running down hills, to the zoo,
or just to the park. But, most importantly, and read this
very carefully… Please,
Please! Do not take videotapes of them... |
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