Ladybug, Ladybug...

[amicus]

My daughter called this evening...she has a small garden, with a rose bush on a trellis, with aphids...those lil green bugs that eat rose leaves.

So off she trundles to the garden shop and purchases a box of 1500 ladybugs, who eat the little green bugs that eat the rose leaves.

"Y'ever heard of bug spray, kid?" says I.

"Da-ad! I'm gonna eat things from my garden! No chemicals for me!"

One thing led to another...I told her about the $6.00 tax per pound of chocolate tax for all the fat ladies in the world and she shushed me.

She's reading "Atlas Shrugged", (I had to bribe her), she thinks Obama is just peachy, "Much better than Bush! Look at what he did!" she said, in no uncertain terms.

We talked, uhm, debated...well...you know....for an hour. About everything, all that I post about here, right versus left, constitutional, individual rights, I think she dropped the phone when I abolished the public school system and she cried about all those not able to afford to educate their little kiddies...

I shoulda stayed abed this day....but we parted happily, I think...her dog needed to be fed.

Having grown children is just so much fun...

amicus...

 

[slyc_willie]

Careful, Ami, you're gonna start making some of us think you're a softie.

 

[amicus]

(amicus straightens up, shoulders back), OMG...can't let that happen, now, can we?



ami

 

[slyc_willie]

Yeah, you know, if they start thinking you're human, then that would just change everything, wouldn't it?

On a more serious note, kudos to you for debating with your daughter, and to her for putting up with such a cantankerous old coot!

 

[Guest]

That is a nice side of you to see, ami.

On a more serious note, do you use your daughter's viewpoints when you argue the liberal side on your other forums?

 

[Recidiva]

That's adorable.

I bought a whole bunch of ladybugs once for my garden. And I also bought an egg sac of praying mantids.

Now it was really cool watching them all be born. And then I released them into my garden...

The praying mantids all ate the ladybugs, and then all ate each other, until there was one HUGE praying mantis lurking in my strawberries, making me terrified of weeding because it kept latching onto my finger and scaring hell out of me.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

AMICUS

I have something a lot more effective than ATLAS SHRUGGED.

It's psycho-lesbian-bitch next door.

She's the perfect blend of liberal, Democrat, oppressed minority, feminist, welfare recipient, and crazy as a shit-house rat mental defective.

She's about 5 feet tall, weighs maybe 275, short spiky hair, with rainbows on everything.

Her whole life screams I'M QUEER AND I'M HERE, but no one is interested. Even lady-faggots have a bottom-line they wont cross.

Anyway, when the kids were growing up and parroting the crap they learn at school, I reminded them that their liberal nonsense would change them into Psycho-Bitch.

 

[R. Richard]

Forget the Atlas Shrugged crap. How are the ladybugs doing with the aphids?

 

[amicus]

Wish I had thought to record the conversation as I know I cannot do justice to her words, descriptions and emotional content...

However...she kept an eye on the lady bugs and wondered why they seems to climb in circles up and down the wooden trellis. Then she saw one, up close with a little green aphid in its tiny hands as the red and black ladybug bit the head off the aphid and went on to the next.

"They burrow into the ground at night, and make whoopee with other ladybugs and then they fly off to somewhere else. But...before the leave, they lay eggs in the ground and presto, in a few weeks, I got baby lady bugs!"

Her philosophy of life is an amalgram of her environment, plus the indoctrination at a very liberal college, Portland State, in Portland, Oregon, but at least she is not a 'vegan' or even a vegetarian, although I think she prefers seafood to red meat, there is still hope for the kid...my youngest of five daughters, whom I attempted to name, Calamity Jane, at birth, but was threatened with immediate emasculation if I did so...

Life goes on...

amicus...