Hi folks,

I have not posted in a while, as I have been working some crazy hours and have not had time to update. I also have been working on a project to convert some of my mothers old articles from PDF files to text files, and thought I would share one with you all. I will try to post a new one each day!






POST-STANDARD July 6,1974

My Weird World by Audrey (kentuckypine)




I HAD THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS scared out of me yesterday.
Know what happened? I came home, and my
16-year-old lady resident, Annetta, had just cleaned her
room.
Now, as any mother of a teen-age daughter knows,
that's just plain frightening. I didn't ask her to do it. I
didn't tell her to do it. I didn't even threaten her to get it
done. She just did it.
Well, to all things there is a reason and a season, and
apparently this is the mating season. Seems that "Wonderful
Wilfred'* called and invited our "sweet sixteener" out for the evening.
I know, and she knows that I know, that if she doesn't
start making some effort around this house, "Wonderful
Wilfred" will have to settle for "Agnes Acne" for his
weekend date.

ITS NOT THAT HER FATHER is demanding. Quite the
contrary, he is almost reluctant to look into her room.
But, he does occasionally like to walk through the front
hallway without the use of a bulldozer.
As I said, he seldom looks into the children's rooms.
Something he keeps muttering about "above and beyond
the call of duty. But, when he does peer inside, and immediately
after the nausea leaves him, he has been known
to make a few not so quiet suggestions to the people living
in those rooms.

ANYWAY, THE WHOLE POINT of this thing is that I
resent it when a kid goes ahead and does something without
being told. It throws my metabolism off for weeks.
Since the good Lord saw fit to make me a member of
motherhood, the least he could do is instruct "Miss Sixteen"
to save me from such shocks such as 1 suffered yesterday.
After all, she's the oldest with four more pulling
up in the rear. I don't know how much my metabolism can stand.