My Drug Problem

[RonS]

(I've seen it before, but it just came to my inbox today.)

God bless Parents who drugged us!

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a
Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining
county and he asked me a rhetorical question: ''Why didn't we have a drug
problem when you and I were growing up?''
 

I replied, I had a drug problem when I was young:

I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings
and funerals.

I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.

I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults.

I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie,
brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the
teacher or the preacher, or if I didn't put forth my best effort in
everything that was asked of me.

I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I
uttered a profane four-letter word.

I was drug out to pull weeds in mom's garden and flower beds and cockleburs
out of dad's fields.

I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out some
poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline or chop
some firewood; and if my parents had ever known that I took a single dime as
a tip for this kindness, they would have drug me back to the woodshed.

Those drugs are still in my veins; and they affect my behavior in everything
I do, say, and think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack or heroin; and
if today's children had this kind of drug problem, America would be a better
place.

~author unknown~


AMEN!!!!

[Steve H]

Double that Amen!!

[Caneybuff]

Yeah, Amen..,

Trouble is these days, try dragging a kid just about anywhere, esp to the woodshed, and ya get drug to court for child abuse... if any of us grew up resenting the seemingly "unfair" authority of our parents and elders, just imagine how much today's kids may resent us for not giving them the "drug" of the woodshed when they get older and hopefully wise enough to know how badly they have been failed..

How many young guys or girls do you hear today even saying Yes Sir, No Sir, or Ma'am?  Makes me appreciate the one that do. 

[grumpy]

Yes Sir, i want to smack my kids right across the mouth everytime they don't address someone as Sir or Mam, the azz chewing dosen't work either.
It's fine with me if they don't address me or their mom that way, i still want them to address anyone else respectively.

Grumpy