zero points for creativity, no zoo...

Yes the sp*c word is vulgar to me and my folks. Having the childhood that I had I always got yes we are going later. Silly for me to believe that later would ever come, as later I would ask when are we going and wouldn't you know it received later again. I bet they are still saying later to the newer kids. Most of my site viewing and zoo visits were all done as I became an adult.

no and yes... No, never got promised something that was hinged on doing something. And yes, I knew that word wasn't allowed because I tried to use it in the name of the product of the same name as you room needed to be with an "'n" instead of an "and"

LOL I figured that out when I saw the word sp*c.. and wondered what was so wrong with that word.. though I assume it's probably offensive to Hispanics if used in that context. Ya know, that was kind of mean! There are a lot of times I tell my kids "If you don't do this, you don't get to go.." But 99% of the time they get to go anyways.. mostly because I can't punish the rest of them who did do it right just because one didn't.. or because I don't want to punish myself. If it were something like the only time we'd ever be able to get to a place we'd never been.. I'd let it go but make them clean it 100% properly when we got home. Yeah, I'm usually mad about it.. but I'd feel worse if they didn't get to go.

I hate to say but I was so deceptive with my mom when I was a teen that I don't know where to start with answering your post question. Ya see my mom worked the night shift at a restaurant. There were so many mornings I came in the door sometimes just minutes before mom came home from work (around 7a. or so) and I would slide into bed. She never knew. (Oh, yes we must be careful of all the little words we mustn't say-teeheehee)

I haven't heard the word sp*c in thirty or fourty decades and even forgot for a moment how the heck it was used... Now I remember... As for being promised something if we did something...I'm sure that happened a lot. But I'll be darned if I can remember one instance. I do have a great memory...it's just short.

I remember that I had a water bed with an under dresser and storage thing. I would shove all I could under the bed and the rest went between the wall and the bed. I used to hid things under the water bed mattress but around the first leak and my mom found that one and I got in trouble for that. Nothing like having to hold back a water bed mattress with your legs while your mom patches a hole. It was pretty funny. My mom also had a rule for a while that we had to make our beds, which I still don't do. I used to sleep with 5 or 6 blankets and I hated making the bed so I would flatten them out a bit and but the conferter over the whole mess! Well she caught on after a while and just gave up on that fight. I liked sleeping with my blankets like that. We make our bed now before we go to bed and in the winter about an hour before so the electric blanket can warm things up. I am glad to say my daughter is much better than me and even at three she will let me know if I put something in her room away in the wrong spot, most of the time she cleans it herself anyway. I still have a ton of stuff under my bed now but at least it is in boxes and a little orginized. Sorry for the spelling errors to tired to fix them. On a side note we got a membership to our local zoo for Christmas this year I hope that we make it there a few times when it warms up my daughter loves the zoo and has been a few times already.

I could have guessed about sp*c as writing the short term for raccoon, or talking about where Webeishere lives got the same treat ment. I also talked about something or someone having a back that was wet and was bleeped for that as well. I have seen what lives under beds. I have even done the same. My dad caught me at any thing I ever tried to do.

No i didnt do that but!!!! I had a kid over to the house playing with son and gave them apples for treats this went on for about a week not sure why I lifted up the bed but I found all the aple cores and partly eatened apples under the bed. SOn said he didnt do it but the othr boy had stil not sure if son did or didnt but I made them both clean it all up and only gave them apples to eat outside after that .

Sp1c is not allowed? I don't doubt it for a moment.

hi dawn oh yes I used to shove stuff into our closet and shut the'door and my mom did not catch on til one day she went to put some clean dresses in my closet and opened the door. I got cut off from movies for two weeks. sad. My son was the original messed up room kid. I finally just gave up and said "At least keep your dog closed." KNow what he is 51 and I wou ld love to seed the his bedroom in the apartment he shares with three other guys. probably he is finally neat then again i will never know. lol.yes and I also was reprimanded today for using sh$t and it was two typos the sh of one and the it of another and together they formed the forbidden word so I edited my response and sent it then with no further problem. I got around the Di.ck C lark new years show by using a period. I can bet you were all a bit teed off at not getting to go to the zoo. I loved going to the zoo as a kid, and to the graveyard of steam locomotives in my home state of South Dakota.THose really are a wonder to see as they are huge. all nicely polished and on display in Deadwood South D akota. the Adams museum also has room furished in the style of 1840, 1850 and so on and women and men manikins dressed in the clothing of that erea too, fascinating to see.

Hi dawn... happy new year. At last you were in a zoo. lol. I was the too naughty guy in my childhood even to day a little bit. So, i was punished by my parents all the time but it did not work for me. I repeated and got punished. When i recollect those days i laugh myself. take care.

Ha - that sounds like something my daughter would do . . . we tell her to clean up and to her that means taking stuff off the table - and shoving it on the other side of the table!! Naw, I never did stuff like that . . . I was always father-fearing - so I actually mostly did what I was told. I don't think they ever made deals with me . . . it was more like what they said OR ELSE. If I did and got caught - I probably would have been severely punished - no kidding. Wow - you didn't go to the zoo til you were an adult? Well, I probably went to the zoo less than a handful of times with my family growing up . . . we didn't go on a whole lot of family outings like we do now with the kids.

Hi Dawnald!. I don't have clue why mylot forbidden thats word, I never hear thats word used for negative purpose. My parent not really strict about cleaning my room. They says I am the one who stay there, so as long I can handle thats mess its will alright. But I love my room to be clean so I clean it when I feel its start to be messy. My parent never promise any gift except for good marks. The first time I go to zoo is when I was 15 years old but I not to enjoy it because its feel sad to see thats animal in cage or small space and seem not to happy.

Oh god, does that bring back memories, I used to do the same exact thing, when I wanted down right away for my benefit. I used to either stuff everything under my bed or sometimes I would throw it in the closet, just so that I can get rid of it quickly and move on with my day and plans. I think I got away with it a few times, but after my mom realized what I was doing she put a very quick stop to it. I remember the first time she found out, she literally got the broom swept everything from under the bed and went into my closet and throw everything right back out, it took me almost 24 hours to get that entire room organized, but did I learn little by little I tried to doing the same thing, until it she did it again and then I just gave up with the short cuts. So trust I can definitely relate...

I would shove stuff in my cupboard - sort of willy nilly/tidily. Mum would tip the cupboard over so everything tumbled out then tell me to do it properly. I would receive a couple of whacks with the copper stick while we were in close proximity to each other. There was no promise at the other end....unless you count more violence if things were not to her standard. They also do not allow the correct spelling of likewer. I was describing a recipe for duck l'orange recently and a famous orange likewer is used. I can understand if they don't allow likka even though it's a group name for all sorts of beverages and refreshments. Stupid b@st@rds!

Of course My Lot 's Big Brother must be in his 60's! Sp!c was a derogatory name for Hispanics in the 50's. I bet anyone born after the year 1970 doesn't even know this! This is another reason why bribes would never work on me and that I will Never make a good parent. First, I could care less about zoos. So that wouldn't make me clean my room.And I really don't care about a kid's room. As long as he/she can find what they need, I really don't care about thr condition of their room.

Yay for your dad in standing up to you not doing it properly. Though when i was a kid I would of gotten away with it simply because my Mother wasn't picky nor did she care if it was a mess usually. It was my Aunt who'd come and bribe me with a trip to the zoo or a toy I really wanted to get it done. Which was a nice incentive, seeing as I've mentioned my Mother could of cared less about picking up & keeping things somewhat decent.

Hi dawny! Happy New Year GF! And no, I didn't know that it is now politically incorrect to put the "i' in that word! Boy, myLot is sure keeping up with the time aren't they? And I wish I could go to the zoo and see the cat exhibits! We have one of the greatest zoos in the world- The Bronx Zoo and it is incredible! The cats are in their "Habitats" and it is so cool! The Zoo is huge and it takes more than one visit to see the whole thin and it is expensive! I really only care mostly about the "cats" anyway! I haven't gone back in quite a few years now. I would love to go again when the weather gets warmer!

I don't think that there were very many people that were kids once upon a time that never tried that one. However, I can say that I am one of those people that never tried to clean my room by shoving everything under the bed. That isn't to say that I wouldn't have tried it if I could. You see, it was never a possiblity for me because of the fact that my bed while I was growing up was a trundle bed so there was a bed under it and I couldn't shove anything under my bed.

I do that all the time. I'm sort of a neat freak, but I don't find time to really clean rooms, or putting things away. Sometimes I resort to putting them in boxes and storing stuff away. That's why I have lots of shelves in the garage. Why would sp*c be an 'unallowed word?