Wednesday Weirdness 20 and 1

Wednesday Weirdness

1.) If you caught your partner viewing porn online and masturbating, how would you react? I guess we’re playing pretend here…. IF I had a significant other,and caught her checking out porn I wouldn’t be all that upset… I might even think it was kinda rad, as long as, of course, she wasn’t substituting porn for time that she could be spending with me.

2.) If you caught your partner participating in a sex chat room online, how would you react? Megh… pretty much the same as above… as long as she kept it as just chatting.

3.) Did your parents know when you became sexually active? How did they find out? Um… sexually… ACTIVE?!?!? People have sex now?!

4.) How open were/are your parents about sex? Not very… they never even gave me “the talk” so I figure it was something they refused to talk about…

5.) When was the last time you had a splinter? What part of your body was it stuck in? A long, long time ago…. I think it was in my knuckle… and it was a metal splinter… double ouchies…

6.) If you could only bring back ONE extinct animal, what would it be and why? The tasmanian tiger wolf… those things were rad… but if I could make one animal, which is not extinct, more common, I’d have an abundance of yeti crabs!!

What’s left of my self-esteem disapproves of your subtle fat joke.

Here’s a conversation I had with my mother the other day. To prove that “Positive Reinforcement” is not in her vocabulary.

Me: You know these jeans I’m wearing?
Mom: Yeah?
Me: Two months ago they were too small to fit, now they do.
*pause*

Now… this is were a normal, relatively polite person would say something like “Oh, you must’ve lost weight then.” But not my mom…

*unpause*
Mom: Yeah, that’s probably because they don’t get dried in the dryer anymore, just hung out to dry, that’s probably why they fit ya now.

Positive Reinforcement or Postively Unreinforced?

You know how most parents reward their kids when they do something good? Well, my parents never worked like that.

My parents made sure that I knew I was a complete failure. They never exercised positive reinforcement for anything. Like the contest I won in first grade for fire safety week in which I thought outside the box. I told them about it and their reply was “Oh yeah?” and “That’s nice” it was never “Good Job” or “I’m so proud of you”.

When I brought home all A’s in elementary school and constantly made the honor roll it was never “Keep up the good work Josh” it was “Yeah, I saw that.”

Then, during my senior year in high school, I was about to fail and have to take the entire year over again I didn’t get a “You’re a smart kid, I know you can get your grades up” it was just “There’s no way you’re gonna pass this grade”

And when I did pass the grade and graduate, there was no “Oh my! You totally surprised us.” it was just “Well, you should have done that earlier in the year.”

So why did I even end up being a decent human being? If you ask my mom she’ll tell ya its all because of her. Not because of something I’ve done.