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Zakk's in swimming lessons this week. Nearly all of his swim mates are gonna be starting school next year with him. So I've ran into the moms several times now. And I was totally ignored. Which really cracks me up since many of them were once good friends. However I was ostrasized from the clique because I didn't do the whole follow the leader crap. Sorry I'm not into having my house decorated with what's currently "in style". I'm not a label whore or any of that other crap. :rolleyes: I swear small town life is follow the crowd or else.

Pinky we are thinking alike..I was going to make a Stepford reference, also.

Reminds me of being in school...with the cliques and everyone following the norm.

Pinky wrote: Yeah, you'd think they'd grow a brain as they got older wouldn't you?

Obviously not! Sheryl, at least you're happy, and able to just be you without worrying what others think. :-6


Happy yea, but it can be lonely. Guess that's why I spend so much time on here.

There's a few who I associate with, but no real close friends. It's hard to find someone to trust in small towns, gossip is usually the #1 pastime, with the runner up being wife swapping. ***gagging**

:wah: My husband usually keeps filled on the town news, he's out and bout more than me. But some of the stuff I've heard would definatley make a great Lifetime movie.

Yea but here are the rules.

1. You must attend church A or B, if you chose another church your not "in"

2. Your outfit can cost you no less than $60, unless you are sick and on your deathbed.

3. Your house must look like it came from a magazine article.

4. Your kids must be clean at all times. Dirt is not a toy.

Think ya can handle those

Sheryl wrote: Yea but here are the rules.

1. You must attend church A or B, if you chose another church your not "in"

2. Your outfit can cost you no less than $60, unless you are sick and on your deathbed.

3. Your house must look like it came from a magazine article.

4. Your kids must be clean at all times. Dirt is not a toy.

Think ya can handle those
Dirt is not a toy?? :yh_ooooo

what about bugs and rocks and stuff???

Sheryl wrote: Yea but here are the rules.

1. You must attend church A or B, if you chose another church your not "in"

2. Your outfit can cost you no less than $60, unless you are sick and on your deathbed.

3. Your house must look like it came from a magazine article.

4. Your kids must be clean at all times. Dirt is not a toy.

Think ya can handle those


Sher

It's too bad these chicks didn't leave this behavior in high school.

GOOD FOR YOU!!!! for being true to yourself. It's not always the easiest road but it truly is the best one. :-6

sunny104 wrote: Dirt is not a toy?? :yh_ooooo

what about bugs and rocks and stuff???


haha when ya dress your kids in expensive clothes guess ya don't want them to be in the dirt.

Sher

Kids are supposed to get dirty

That's one of the *joys* of being a kid

Sheryl say bollock$ to the lot of them:yh_bigsmi you have your own mind and your own style and if these people have a problem with that then its their problem . How dare they make you feel bad just because you refuse to become a clone. You are a good wife and mother and thats all that matters - what these stupid people do not realise is that one day they themselves will become stale and old news become the leader of your own pack do what you want and be proud and when they wake up and smell the coffee tell them to bugger off:yh_tong2

Get one of those T-shirts to wear:

My Kid Beat Up Your Kid..................and on the back, put, I'm Waiting for His Momma To Say Something!

Phooey on those snobs!:p

chonsigirl wrote: Get one of those T-shirts to wear:

My Kid Beat Up Your Kid..................and on the back, put, I'm Waiting for His Momma To Say Something!

Phooey on those snobs!:p
:yh_rotfl

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

you guys all crack me up! But that's why I like ya and hang out here all the time. :-4

Those women are morons

And we think you're great :-4

Maybe we could help you TP their houses?;)

Sheryl wrote: Yea but here are the rules.

1. You must attend church A or B, if you chose another church your not "in"

2. Your outfit can cost you no less than $60, unless you are sick and on your deathbed.

3. Your house must look like it came from a magazine article.

4. Your kids must be clean at all times. Dirt is not a toy.

Think ya can handle those


OMG !!!!!! Sheryl !!!!!!!!!!! Of course aussies are bolshie and would go the opposite way on the above four just to be bloody minded. In your town I'd keep a cupboard full of champagne, join the flower people, cuss often, wear Paris haute couture only and smile inscrutably at those other ladies . (That'll make them mad). My house would be so stylishly eccentric that they would all gawp. And my kids would be trained to turn the garden hose on the lot of them.

Just kidding of course (probably). But I think probably what sets you apart from the gang is that you are obviously intelligent, feisty, creative and your own woman. This is a great way to be and your husband loves you for it. Unfortunately it means you're gonna stick out a bit in a small town... Grin..... You feel at home in here because there are loads of other bright and sparky non conformists. Do stay being yourself though. Who knows. You might start a trend there. And find others eventually come out of their closets and ditch the Stepford thing.

SnoozeControl wrote: You know what'd be fun? Having an FG gathering in Sheryl's town and really whooping it up. We'd show them! :sneaky:


I don't care as long as ya bring your tents. There's no motels in my town.

Wait on second thought my neighbor who's single, might let a few of ya'll stay at his house. :wah:

Sheryl wrote: I don't care as long as ya bring your tents. There's no motels in my town.

Do the tents have to cost $60?

we could always set up our own club of non-uniform housewifes and go round the town with our dirty old outfits on i will bring my own dirt covered children :wah:

The mind boggles at the thought of a massed close harmony male voice choir or singing rescuers suddenly riding into a small Texas town ....................

:yh_rotfl