tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post3854409771398363631..comments2023-10-07T03:12:02.883-04:00Comments on Suburban Matron: Judith Martin May Actually Have Covered This SituationBeckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06517252487552392654noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-69013398764150291622013-04-01T18:15:12.803-04:002013-04-01T18:15:12.803-04:00Here's that comment I tried to leave a week ag...Here's that comment I tried to leave a week ago:<br /><br />I have to know what she did, too, but I suspect that moment has passed.<br /><br />Our housekeeper is a devout Catholic (from Mexico), and sometimes her daughters come with her. One of her daughters (18 years old) told me once how her mom heard one of her Mexican Christian radio stations talking about how Hello Kitty is a devil-worshipping symbol, and now she's terrified of it (the mom, not the daughter). It's interesting, these superstitions.<br /><br />I am not remotely religious but I can't have the radio volume or the car temperature setting on anything that isn't an even number, unless it ends in a 5. For reals.<br /><br />I'm so behind on my SubMat reading!<br />Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05220334396409452136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-6599215197990685162013-03-22T13:25:44.985-04:002013-03-22T13:25:44.985-04:00Dying to know. Really. You must get to the bottom...Dying to know. Really. You must get to the bottom of this. I actually have a friend who made her daughter write an apology letter to Jesus one time when she lied. Do you think it was something like that?Lisa Lilienthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152500885897993371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-25072037145153873292013-03-22T10:36:23.342-04:002013-03-22T10:36:23.342-04:00I was doing fine until you said "Oh, well, th...I was doing fine until you said "Oh, well, that's why I got a flu shot." Then I very nearly spit oatmeal all over my keyboard. And here I am at work trying to pretend to be all serious. That's what I get for reading blogs at work. I'll probably get the flu now. The Bughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509037206264761261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-22326914240404653532013-03-22T09:39:00.965-04:002013-03-22T09:39:00.965-04:00Following her conclusion to it's logical headw...Following her conclusion to it's logical headwaters, all health care is an attempt to thwart the will of God, isn't it? Paging Mary Baker Eddy!Camp Papahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03918758148818443535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-17528124956309456562013-03-22T05:23:44.764-04:002013-03-22T05:23:44.764-04:00People have all kinds of wacky ideas. Hmmm, I'...People have all kinds of wacky ideas. Hmmm, I'd have to know more about what she said for her reasonings to know how I would've responded. But maybe something like, "Wow, Fabienne, if God responded to our mistakes by making us sick, we'd all be dead by now." This said with a good natured laugh/wink combo. (It's my signature move but you can use it.) <br /><br />But yeah, I totally would've been like, "whoa, what did you do?" Sometimes people interpret natural consequences as God's deliberate action. And lol to your flu shot remark!! You shoulda been all, "We'll that's why I never sin!'Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07969357513275063157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-79048999472665323892013-03-22T02:40:07.914-04:002013-03-22T02:40:07.914-04:00Speechless.Speechless.Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06350579051520505525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-31004563903232989882013-03-22T02:18:50.403-04:002013-03-22T02:18:50.403-04:00What the evangelical Christians have done to the H...What the evangelical Christians have done to the Hispanic community here in Los Angeles is reprehensible to me, perpetuating ignorance in the name of Jesus and the Bible. My babysitter's daughter once came to me and asked my advice. She was nineteen and having terrible stomach/uterine pain, and the doctor wanted to do a vaginal exam. She refused because she didn't want the doctor to break her hymen and therefore take away her virginity. I gently told her that she was an educated young woman and a vaginal exam was not like intercourse and that she owed it to her fellow women to educate herself and strengthen herself, yada yada yada. I'll shut up, now, because evidently hordes of people flock from the Catholic to the evangelical churches (our of the frying pan and into the fire).Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-38488602984425393192013-03-22T00:38:19.519-04:002013-03-22T00:38:19.519-04:00I love the image of defending oneself against God&...I love the image of defending oneself against God's wrath with a flu shot.<br /><br />It makes me sad that she believes God punishes people like that. I think I would have tried to disabuse her of that notion....Jesus said something along the lines of "God makes the sun shine on good and evil alike," didn't He?<br /><br />Now I'm totally curious, though, about what sin is punishable by the flu. There's a motherload of British sketch comedy in that.....AlGalMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10079585115981856591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-80752309759317414532013-03-22T00:21:37.810-04:002013-03-22T00:21:37.810-04:00Another good reason to get a flu shot. Another good reason to get a flu shot. Erika Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616267564975552152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6328138894440374230.post-52618428351233447812013-03-22T00:03:56.212-04:002013-03-22T00:03:56.212-04:00Yes. Dying to know what happened there.
Me being ...Yes. Dying to know what happened there.<br /><br />Me being the heathen that I am, I would have gone with "Who the what now?" as an actual response, and probably lost another housecleaner.Keelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06323783519078200647noreply@blogger.com