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Looking into the future?

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MawB Thu 13-Aug-20 08:28:16

Just stolen this from my daughter who, like all parents, is finding 6 weeks of school holidays hard going AFTER 4 months of lockdown and home schooling ....priceless ?

“In the future, when our kids are the parents... ? “

‘Oh my god, these kids are doing my head in. Six weeks is so long.......’

Six weeks? SIX WEEKS?? Try six chuffing months! You parents today haven’t got a clue what we went through in 2020. Six months of entertaining you, and we couldn’t even go any-bloody-where. All we had was Netflix and a colouring book. We had a heatwave, and couldn’t do any baking because every chuffer had stolen all the flour. Couldn’t make macaroni necklaces, no chuffing pasta. Praying nobody gets sick as we had two toilet rolls to last us til we dared even get in a QUEUE to go to a shop, and ended up using kitchen roll. We had to stand on spots on the floor and risked being tackled to the ground if we dare walk up an aisle the wrong way in Tesco by JimBob in his visor, who was working there cos he’d lost his job in a pub, which we couldn’t go to for a night off cos they were all bloody closed. We only saw people on a Thursday when we stood and clapped for nurses on the street, whilst wondering what would happen to Sharon in the Vic in Eastenders but not knowing because.....the soap operas all run out! Yep kids that’s right, no soaps!! Imagine that. We had to download things called zoom and had to attempt to do meetings in our houses whilst you lot ran around telling everyone you were bored, or hot, or STILL hungry despite the fact we’d made you fourteen breakfasts. We had this fit fella every morning attempting to get you fit on YouTube but that lasted all of two episodes before you put Spongebob on. We had to attempt to teach you, yes you! I was expected to print out all these bloody sheets, running out of ink at midnight attempting to print out the monarchy timeline for you to give it four seconds of thought before saying you didn’t want to do it and that’s not how Mrs Jones does it. We had to give up our phones so you could FaceTime your mates, or download more games, if it gave us five seconds of time to tidy up the kitchen only to turn around and see the living room had now been turned into a ninja warrior assault course. We dug out paddling pools, we got stung by wasps, we redecorated gardens and bedrooms, we hoovered a lot, we forgot what a bed ‘time’ was, we gave in to technology far too much, we had no money and ordered shit off amazon in the hope it passed an hour for you, we then had a chuffing postal strike as every postman got covid, and waved to other humans through windows on our one hour allowed out every day. Cash?? Didn’t have any, and if we did you couldn’t bloody use it as no chuffer accepted it for fear of touching you. Swimming? Nope. Cinema? Nope. Bowling? Nope? McDonald’s? Nope. Playgrounds? Nope. Taped off like a crime scene. None of that. 6 weeks?? Piece of p*ss mate.

Buttonjugs Thu 13-Aug-20 12:58:43

I remember my mother being really poorly in bed with the flu in the sixties. She later told me that when my dad went in to see how she was one day, he sat on the bed and told her a man in the next street had just died from it. He never did tactful.

knspol Thu 13-Aug-20 13:56:05

Nice one!!!

123kitty Thu 13-Aug-20 14:10:53

Wonder why you didn't post the item for us all to enjoy Pinkcakes if it was already doing the rounds on facebook. Well done MawB, think you've cheered us all up today.

hulahoop Thu 13-Aug-20 14:49:07

Very good maw ?

Bathsheba Thu 13-Aug-20 15:41:52

123kitty

Wonder why you didn't post the item for us all to enjoy Pinkcakes if it was already doing the rounds on facebook. Well done MawB, think you've cheered us all up today.

Oh for heaven’s sake! Pinkcakes made an observation, that’s all, just commented that it’s on FB. I see a lot of funny posts on FB - should I relay them all here? Didn’t realise that was expected ?. I’ll see what I can do.

Mapleleaf Thu 13-Aug-20 19:40:22

??? maw. Made me smile, thank you.

MawB Thu 13-Aug-20 19:44:35

PinkCakes

That's doing the rounds on Facebook..........

I never claimed I was the author hmm
Read the first sentence!

HurdyGurdy Thu 13-Aug-20 20:36:18

Oh MawB, thank you for that.

I've laughed out loud, literally, at that - especially "ordered shit off amazon". I've definitely done that and I've not even had the excuse of having kids at home to entertain and educate grin

Furret Thu 13-Aug-20 21:32:26

Yes, I’ve already read it on FB and it did make me laugh.

Milest0ne Fri 14-Aug-20 09:17:28

In the Asian flu pandemic our school didn't close and I was one of only three who didn't get it. I didn't get a single day off school.