By the farmers? Nah. Couple close calls, though. [ People don't exactly love it when you drive a two ton machine over their viable crops. It's just that tractors are much slower than cars. ] My parents caught me plenty of times. But by then, I was too big to be taken over a knee, and it wasn't like they were usually home to make sure I stuck to a punishment. We'd just scream at each other for a few hours, I'd go to someone else's house for a few days and then it was like it was over.
[ Her tone is cynical. Julie didn't come from a "good" family where dinner was on the table at 7pm and everyone played board games together afterward. Once she was old enough go to school, she was essentially left on her own to raise herself -- her parents would work their second jobs until late, sometimes hours past the time she should have been in bed. A variety of relatives and other people watched out for her until she was considered old enough to be on her own, and that age came earlier for Julie than it probably did for most girls. By the time she was actively sneaking out, she was well past being affected by normal discipline.
She knows her parents loved her. She just also knows they weren't very good at being parents. ]
I don't know that I'm cut out to climb up a cliff in the dark. [ She has to laugh a little. She's no slouch (give her any tree and she can make it to the top), but she can't say she's ever been rock-climbing. ] How do you feel 'bout paralyzed women?
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[ Her tone is cynical. Julie didn't come from a "good" family where dinner was on the table at 7pm and everyone played board games together afterward. Once she was old enough go to school, she was essentially left on her own to raise herself -- her parents would work their second jobs until late, sometimes hours past the time she should have been in bed. A variety of relatives and other people watched out for her until she was considered old enough to be on her own, and that age came earlier for Julie than it probably did for most girls. By the time she was actively sneaking out, she was well past being affected by normal discipline.
She knows her parents loved her. She just also knows they weren't very good at being parents. ]
I don't know that I'm cut out to climb up a cliff in the dark. [ She has to laugh a little. She's no slouch (give her any tree and she can make it to the top), but she can't say she's ever been rock-climbing. ] How do you feel 'bout paralyzed women?