da burbs.....

"baseball mom"

"football mom"

datchoo?

well, she's catholic, apparently...

basketball mom

soccer mom (sorry, ya gotta state the obvious sometimes)

yep!

this is the damn fog that won't go away! where's the sun!?

they also had a video screen thingy.

in new york, sucka!

OI! so silly. god forbid kids look out the goddam window, count out-of-state license plates, play punch-buggy (which i STILL play and i'm 36 years old!)...

Well, yeh.

or mormon

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JKönig says:

well, as the wife of a high school teacher, i can tell you that kids who are forced to fill every inch of their lives with extracurricular activities -- on top of all the college-level classes -- end up sitting in class, tearing up blank sheets of paper into tiny little bits, and cutting themselves quietly under their desks.

what the fuck ever happened to playing? i don't mean on a team, and i don't mean where a game is won or lost. just playing.
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debaird™ says:

Is there a fuh2 tag for suburbans? cause.....

yeah. what happened to playing with yer mates in the neighborhood?

i blame the video games and computers. oh, and MySpace.

;-)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

JKönig says:

flickr, however, had nothing to do with it.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

debaird™ says:

nope. when in doubt, blame MySpace.

War in Iraq. Yep, MySpace.

High gas prices. MySpace is to blame.

Fall of civilization? MySpace.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

JKönig says:

MySpace? MySpace.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

madalyne53 says:

I see these land yachts every day. 9 times outa 10 there is just the driver in em. Or if it's full of kids the driver is normally talking on the cell phone and ignoring traffic laws.
The dumbing down of America.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

~james~ says:

to make it even worse, in Texas -- in addition to all of the above -- there are also the omnipresent Jesus Fish decal and very often, Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes kneeling down in front of a cross. also, down here, the football and baseball, etc.. have the kid's name e.g: Tyson: Bronco's & Brianna: Gymnastics. The lamest are the poor kids who only get the clarinet decal....
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

~james~ says:

let me just add that i come from a tradition of bumper sticker = heinous transgression against good taste. there were no stickers or decals on the forty foot long Mercury, as it sailed down the interstate at 75 mph, driven by my 5 foot tall mom, while my brother and I jumped up and down on the back seat like a trampoline (or dozed in the sun between the back seat top and the rear windshield (!!!!)) before that car, we were just stuck, standing up, behind the two seats of her tiny Alfa Romeo convertible. No, she wasn't a bad mother -- everyone acted like that (maybe it was a local custom -- total disregard for safety?) remember how they warned you never to climb into abandoned refigerators??!! ok....i'm digressing too much...
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

debaird™ says:

hey hombre, watch the clarinet kid mockage! yes, (drops head in shame) i was a band geek. and yes, it's amazing we all survived before the "danger lurks around every corner" / safety nazi's took hold of childhood.

we drank water from the hose (yum!), ate dessert (yum), rode bikes without a helmet, drank coke and pop rocks--AT THE SAME TIME!!--(OMG!), and in the car, my mom's arm was all the safety net we needed.

and ya.....what's up with Calvin (of Hobbes fame, not Klein) praying in front of the cross? so strange.....i didn't know that cartoon characters had to worry about eternal damnation.

;-)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

~james~ says:

ms. cleo alert -- saw the clarinet at lunch, in the parking lot of a mexican food restaurant. the name was Melissa. oh, how i wish i had my camera! there was also a jesus fish, but no praying Calvin...
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

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