Comments on: Is It OK To Laugh At Your Kid?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:17:20 +0000

Floor 7 being the eighth floor!! Gotta love the Brits – we certainly know how to confuse some.

And YES you can laugh at your kids cos I am sure they laugh at us!!

By: Dr. T

Dr. T — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:18:17 +0000

But, Matt, in a bureaucratic school environment in the summertime, it might take three weeks just to get all the needed signatures on the request to hire an outside repair firm. Then the request will go to purchasing, budgeting, and/or contracting for approval, but the supervisors are on holiday. Finally, it gets to the low bid, unionized elevator repair company that schedules it ten days later and sends an incompetent team to dink around in the elevator and scratch their heads for a few hours before saying, “We don’t know what’s wrong with it.”

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:33:32 +0000

A *month* to repair an elevator?

When I read that my first thought was of the perpetually broken elevator in Winston’s apartment building in 1984.

My father is a retired elevator mechanic. The company he worked for had 24-hour service and typically had the things running again within a few hours, although sometimes it took a few days, and, extremely rarely, about a week.

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:53:01 +0000

Is It OK To Laugh At Your Kid?

Why yes, yes it is.

By: James H

James H — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:26:38 +0000

It’s hard to beat the exercise you can get on a college campus. I gained at least 5 pounds after graduating, which was probably due to much less exercise. Just tell the kid that it builds character After the first month, he probably won’t think much of it.

By: Max

Max — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:20:36 +0000

Ahhh, yes, that reminds me of boarding school in germany =) I had one year in a private school in Baden-Baden, which actually was built on a hill-top. The results was a daily aerobic trip to and from the class rooms because my house was on top of the hill =) After getting accustomed to the school, this was no problem and until today I’d say a bit of excercise wasn’t the worst I could’ve got =)