I’m over at the neighbors house drinking a beer with my neighbor and my son. I didn’t mean to douse the fire on this thread. Oh I agree with a whole bunch of what everyone is saying. I’m going back across street to drink another beer, and of course we’re playing with cars!
My buddy across the street is using that worthless water stuff. I’m trying not to get him to blow up his engine like Steve did. He’s taking shortcuts and I’m telling him not to.
I see this as a training problem, kid was thrown on the register and never taught how to give change. I was a dishwasher at a deli when I was 16 and thrown on the register if you have never been taught how to count back the change then you panic and you are 16 and terrified this happens. When this happens to me I try and talk to the manager and explain what happened and how proper training would eliminate the kids pressure and the customer being pissed. They usually tell me to F’ off
Waterless coolant? If he follows the directions he'll have no problems. I have 4 gals of that stuff and the needed flush.
My guess was water injection to save mpg. https://www.instructables.com/Water-injection-to-save-fuel/
I really despise this generalization. There is a difference between physical discipline and child abuse. Unfortunately, the over educated idiots among us have worked to blur that line for the last 40 or 50 years. The notion that children don't need to fear authority and consequences for their actions are a fundimental cause of what we are discussing in this thread. JW
Exactly. My father was a OTR driver and would come home each friday night to a verbal list of all the crap my sister and I pulled during the week. Sat am the spankings would commence. After that it was back to the stable family unit. Id say I probably deserved at least 95% of the lashings I got. What hurt worse was the loss of privilege's. My butt would stop stinging after a hour but doing without my stuff lasted far longer. I'd say for the most part I am a fairly well adjusted, if not a bit warped ,adult. My kids were raised in much the same way
3 kids, straight A students from k through high school, honest, hard working, respectful, never hit them or spanked them once. Wife is the one who get's out of line, and I spank her all the time. (okay, not really -- she would punch me out if I tried.)
I'm sure I despise corporal punishment more than you despite this "generalization." You fail to discern the difference between discipline and violence. Being treated with violence never did anyone good. But please resume the regularly scheduled programming of how Boomers feel obsolete.
Perhaps If you were disciplined you wouldn’t feel the need to resort to hurling pathetic insults to the owner of the site / it’s members .
So how many people here besides you lack a sense of humor? I'm not expecting you or anyone else to laugh but, c'mon, if you think that's insulting, please keep in mind the MO of this thread is to insult a generation of people. It's been done time and time again here to the point that my eyes are stuck from an eye-roll. Yet what you are STILL missing is that I am not talking about a lack of discipline. What I've been talking about is discipline with violence is a bad path to follow. It does nothing positive for society.
And when they do, I go somewhere else. They are making enough on the sale to afford to lose 3% or so.
More then 50% of all McDonald's franchise holders started by working behind the counter of a McDonalds.
Oh Deigo, I doubt very much that your distaste for corporal punishment, is at all comparable to the results of the lack of respect for authority in our society. Which is what I despise... if there is one thing in this world that I hate, and will not abide, is a totally self-centered person. This is the clown who leaves the shopping cart right where he quits using it, with the "I don't work here" reasoning... Who that really hurts is not the business, it's the next guy who comes along, and wants to park in that spot. Put that cart back in the cart corral, and be a decent human being.. geeze.. how hard is it? A group of self important eggheads brainwashed the weak minded in our country, starting in the late 50's, that any type of physical discipline was harmful to a child. That movement is more to blame for the disintegration of the family unit, which is at the core of the decline of our society in general, more than any other single influence. Children lost respect for their parents. And if you don't respect your parents, you certainly will not respect any other authority. Not all children have to be physically disciplined.. But you take a willful child, and refuse to impose your will upon them, your just setting that child up for failure as an adult. This is true more often than not. Very few "rebels" go on to lead successful lives. Only the willful child has to be brought into conformance with the parents wishes, with corporal punishment as always the last resort. But it has be be in the toolbox. And early.. I was spanked by my parents when I was young.. probably about 5 or 6, when I decided I was going to push them a bit, and not do what they required of me. I was quickly brought to the understanding that this was not going to fly in my household. No further physical punishment was required by them, right up till the day I moved out. ------------------- I was physically spanked that one time by my parents, and once in school.. Neither was a pleasant experience, but the fear of a repeat to that unpleasant experience, kept me on the straight and narrow, for the most part. The school spanking was more of an embarrassment among your peers, that you as a 16 year old had to be spanked.. totally not cool... Don't even tell my that your one of those "consequences don't deter the crime" folks.. That's the most laughable psychobabble they ever came up with. Tell that to the outlaw in the old west, that knew if he survived the almost inevitable gun battle at his capture, his ultimate destination was the hangman's noose. Were they to erect a gallows in Times Square, along with the 19th century court system to go with it, I can assure you that the homicide rates in NYC would plummet.. but they actually have been doing the opposite for decades.. right up until the latest stroke of public policy genius with the no bail laws. And we all see the results of that policy folly. The centerpiece of a responsible civilized society is a populous that respects authority. Another word for respect is fear... And those who believe that children should never have to fear anything growing up, are just kidding themselves. Corporal punishment is intended to instill fear in a child, who refuses to modify his behavior with other methods. There is nothing wrong with a good healthy fear.. for both children and adults. In fact I would argue that without it, society degenerates into chaos. JW
