[Hopper]

I've had the dubious joy of parenting four kids. The youngest is now 17 and thank god it's almost over. She smokes pot daily, has tried ecstacy, coke and generally has been horrible to her mother.
The oldest is 22, one kid, already been abused by "hubby", who thankfully ran back to his home province telling his mommy and daddy how bad my daughter is for calling the cops (his father agrees).
Next is 20, one kid, who at least works to support his girlfriend and child (even though he's a high school dropout!).
Luckily our 19 year old is a computer geek and studying computer science and "reverse engineering".

I don't get it - my wife and I are professional people with good education who taught the kids well.

The biggest curse I can think of giving someone is that I hope they have many children (girls are FAR worse, however).

[dgthe3]

I think that we called oranges orange after they were brought back from china. And it is possible to make the statement 'I always lie' true: lie down when you want to tell the truth.

As far as drugs and what not, the only thing that i've ever done was drink underage. I guess i made it easy for my folks

[Dan74]

The worst thing my Mother ever said to me was "I hope you have kids just like you."I thought this was really mean but in Her defense She was convinced I had just sold my bike for drugs.The fact I was very beaten up really didn't compell her to believe I was jumped after a high school dance.
The funny thing was I had never tried drugs at that point.2 years later she may have been closer to the truth.

[canadian1971]

I didnt smoke pot til i was 19 and moved out of my folks place. The utter FEAR of my father kept me from doing ALOT of stuff when i was a kid, not everything, but alot! That was back in the day when it wasnt child abuse eh, and I thank god he was like that now, though i cursed him then! Hell he was mean...he was so mean my friend Pat from across the street would stay outta trouble cause he was so mean! Hell my older brother joined the navy when he graduated to get away from him! I have no doubt that i would have been in jail at some point in my youth if it was not for him......."The worst thing my Mother ever said to me was "I hope you have kids just like you."....my mother said this to me too eh, thats why im not havin kids, i figure i can just mess up my brothers!......................now aboot them there oranges eh..........................If an ORANGE(the fruit) was not ORANGE(the colour) then it WOULD NOT BE CALLED AN ORANGE! ..... .......Partly due to my chemically modified thought pattern here my guess would be that way back when, when "ORANGES" were first introduced to "WHITE PEOPLE" a person holding the fruit that we know as an ORANGE, say the guy who helped unload the first batch ever to arrive, was asked.."hey, whats that?".. and he didnt have a dam clue. All he knew was that it was orange, so thats what he called it, and it stuck, and the rest as they say is history! oh man...i got the munchies!