Are you crying?

kincsem · 30-03-2009 3:37pm #1

I was digging the garden at the front of my house this afternoon. There is a primary school about fifty yards away. Parked outside my house was a BMW M5 and a Toyota Land Cruiser, with other expensive vehicles all along the street waiting to collect the children. When the cars had cleared off three young boys walking home from school, aged about ten years, looked into the garden.

I had a garden fork in my hand, I had dug about thirty square yards of soil, the sun was shining. One of the boys asked "What are you doing?" Reply "I'm digging my garden". Next question "Are you crying?" Reply "No, I'm sweating".

He was not being smart. I guessed he had never seen someone digging a garden, and was unfamiliar with sweat.

Kids of today and all that, blah, blah. But this shocked me.

chin_grin · 30-03-2009 3:40pm

Captain-America · 30-03-2009 3:41pm

What possessed you to make a thread about this?

Black Swan · 30-03-2009 3:41pm

"The Crying Game?"

Sean Quagmire · 30-03-2009 3:47pm

What possessed you to make a thread about this?

antodeco · 30-03-2009 3:48pm

Probably hadnt heard you the first time :pac:

EDIT: They werent originally by different posters!

Creamy Goodness · 30-03-2009 3:48pm

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

What possessed you to make a thread about this?

what possessed you to dup another poster?

antodeco · 30-03-2009 3:49pm

Captain-America wrote: »

What possessed you to make a thread about this?

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

What possessed you to make a thread about this?

Stung!!

Schism · 30-03-2009 3:50pm

Captain-America wrote: »

What possessed you to make a thread about this?

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

What possessed you to make a thread about this?

You've found you're internet dopleganger!

Edit : Note to self, post quicker.

me-skywalker · 30-03-2009 3:51pm

you've got more than 30square yards of soil to dig?? yes yes i am crying...

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 30-03-2009 3:53pm

Not crying, but I am sure their inability to distinguish between sweating and crying has nothing to do with their experiences of hard work. It's a simple misconception I guess... Maybe you actually looked like you were crying?

Captain-America · 30-03-2009 3:53pm

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

what possessed you to dup another poster?

:pac:

ok im done

Sorry, no.

Sean Quagmire · 30-03-2009 3:53pm

antodeco wrote: »

Stung!!

Actualy Captain america posted it twice then as a joke I put the line in for a third time.
then captain america took out his mistake, making me look like a foolish fool

consultech · 30-03-2009 3:58pm

yes, yes I am.

kincsem · 30-03-2009 4:00pm

Why did I make a thread about this? I think children are being shielded from real life and are not getting the experience they need.

Later, at about 15:40 the whole 300 yards of the road was blocked with vehicles as parents drove their children home. It is a dry, sunny day. I'm sure most live within walking distance. They would learn more walking home, chatting to their friends, and seeing the neighbourhood.

If a child does not know that effort produces sweat does that not seem odd to you? I felt like telling him my pet elephant had died and I was burying it in the front garden. He was so naive he might have believed me. Of course the recent financial troubles would suggest that naivety is inherited from the parents.

Agamemnon · 30-03-2009 4:01pm

Admit it, OP, you were crying, you big baby. Man up FFS.

stovelid · 30-03-2009 4:11pm

kincsem wrote: »

One of the boys asked "What are you doing?" Reply "I'm digging my garden". Next question "Are you crying?" Reply "No, I'm sweating".
.

They were deeply afraid because a strange, profusely sweating adult, armed with a pitchfork, was standing in a garden, muttering and staring at them leaving school.

The rhetorical question Are you crying was just a diversionary tactic as they got ready to flee in terror.

biko · 30-03-2009 4:12pm

You were chopping onions outside right?

kincsem · 30-03-2009 4:15pm

The thought did cross my mind that if that soft kid had ambitions to play for Manchester United he could - on the XBox.

On daffodil day four teenagers were collecting at the local shopping center so I handed over a €20 note and said "take €5 out of that". I got €5 change. Wake up children. I was sweating there as well. :mad:

xOxSinéadxOx · 30-03-2009 4:17pm

fair enough but why did you call it are you crying?

antodeco · 30-03-2009 4:24pm

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

Actualy Captain america posted it twice then as a joke I put the line in for a third time.
then captain america took out his mistake, making me look like a foolish fool

Until i see facts, I will be watching you!!

\o/

kincsem · 30-03-2009 4:27pm

xOxSinéadxOx wrote: »

fair enough but why did you call it are you crying?

That was what the young lad asked me.
Sweat on my forehead might have been a clue that I was sweating.

Clues:
Garden fork in hand: Large area of soil dug: Sunny day: Sweat on forehead: Sweat on face: Sweat on shirt

Questions:
What are you doing? I'm digging my garden.
Are you crying? No, I'm sweating.

He might get a job with the Garda detective bureau when he grows up.

Piste · 30-03-2009 4:29pm

The correct answer was "real men don't cry"

javaboy · 30-03-2009 4:31pm

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

Actualy Captain america posted it twice then as a joke I put the line in for a third time.
then captain america took out his mistake, making me look like a foolish fool

Sounds plausible.

dublinario · 30-03-2009 4:41pm

Piste wrote: »

The correct answer was "real men don't cry"

I bawled like a schoolgirl when Ireland went out of the 2002 world cup. I'm also still haunted by the death of Mufasa in The Lion King, and often wake up in the middle of the night drenched in what I hope is tears and sweat.

Are you crying?

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