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onethatcares

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15. this!

Reply to marble falls (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 4, 2021, 11:46 AM

Dec 2021

conversation at the dinner table , "Dad, Joe hit me upside the head today on the way to gym class and laughed at my grades".

Dad,"Well what are you gonna do about it?"

"Dad, he's 5 inches taller than me"

Dad, "Well equalize it"

the rest is, as they say, history in the making.

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When I think of a Christmas gift for a 15 year-old... [View all] MissMillie Dec 2021 OP

My father & WWII generation of uncles, cousins grew up hunting. At most they'd get a bb gun at that hlthe2b Dec 2021 #1

And parents were apparently told by school their kid was looking to purchase ammunition LisaL Dec 2021 #3

A shotgun is really a poor choice for home defense. PTWB Dec 2021 #28

Especially if the kid is troubled. LisaL Dec 2021 #2

Sadly, I don't think they think their little darling has issues. Claustrum Dec 2021 #18

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1950s left-of-center2012 Dec 2021 #4

Same in rural NJ. no_hypocrisy Dec 2021 #5

Grew up out west and duck hunted over 90 days a year DenaliDemocrat Dec 2021 #7

We were taught gun safety left-of-center2012 Dec 2021 #12

Unfortunately that wasn't the case in my childhood community... hunter Dec 2021 #20

In that particular era, the NRA itself existed primarily as a GUN SAFETY ORGANIZATION. bullwinkle428 Dec 2021 #25

My 14th Christmas gift was a Remington .410 single shot, shot gun. About $30 from ... marble falls Dec 2021 #6

this! onethatcares Dec 2021 #15

The summer after that I worked as a "stoop" laboror on a 'muck farm' (big commercial ... marble falls Dec 2021 #22

Well... Mike Nelson Dec 2021 #8

Did you shoot your eye out? (n/t) MissMillie Dec 2021 #9

I see what you did there. nt Nay Dec 2021 #16

My nephew had a good friend who actually shot himself in the eye with a BB gun and it Demsrule86 Dec 2021 #21

"We want you to have Grandaddy's gun" babydollhead Dec 2021 #10

Gifts are fine. But they need to be secured. SYFROYH Dec 2021 #11

Not if your kid is troubled. LisaL Dec 2021 #13

Well sure, but the OP was more general than that. SYFROYH Dec 2021 #17

What?? You don't run out to get your emo/hormoney teenage son with the half-developed brain Wingus Dingus Dec 2021 #14

Reminiscent of cbabe Dec 2021 #19

A gun was a common Xmas gift when I was young Kaleva Dec 2021 #23

Me too. Texasgal Dec 2021 #24

Boys could take guns to school during hunting season. Kaleva Dec 2021 #29

I got hockey equipment at that age. maveric Dec 2021 #26

I'll take a wild stab jmowreader Dec 2021 #27