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feelgood · 11-25-2003, 10:16 PM

I'm a new guy and I've been lurking around here for awhile, reading stuff and all so I figured that I might as well make my first post.

To start off...

It's official people...my step mother is stupider than I initially thought...

I live in western Canada. We get more snow compared to Eastern Canada. I don't live in the city, just on a small farm in the middle of nowhere. So, a month or so ago, we had a fairly good snowstorm that dropped about 5-10 inch of snow, enough to get my step-mother's low rim car stuck. So, my dad and I got the tractor out and cleared the driveway so that the family wouldn't have any problem getting to work and school. But the first day after the snowstorm and clearing the road, my step mother gets stuck in the driveway with her low rim car (A Ford Taurus for those of you who are wondering) That's pretty understandable, all I had to do was give it a push and off to work she go.

Now, tonight, several small snowstorm, bunch of sunny days and couple of road clearing later...She manages to get stuck again. Not with her car but with the goddam 4 wheel drive truck. I had no problem getting my car through the driveway, nor did my step sister with the Ford Tarus. And for some reason, my stepmom gets stuck in the goddam driveway, with a 4 wheel drive truck! God knows how she managed to veer off into the ditch.

Share your experience with your stepdad, stepmom, step sister or bro if you have any

And I'm ready for my flamming ritual

cheerios · 11-26-2003, 12:37 AM

no flaming rituals here! I'd tell a stupid stepmom story, but, well... I don't have a stepmom. 'rents are still together. My dad drove into a phone pole in the fog once, does that count? (we don't have snow here, so really i have very little concept fo what you're talking about). sounds interesting, though!

Halx · 11-26-2003, 01:18 AM

In all fairness... is it even plausible for someone who uses 'stupider' to apply it to someone?

Ya know.. for arguement's sake.

OK, joking aside. (You took that lightly I hope.)

Ya know... I wouldn't really blame people for not adjusting to a new environment. I, for example, wouldn't know the first thing about about living in snow. I have lived in Southern California since I was 5 and it has snowed at this elevation a total of ONE time. That was in 1988. I was in elementry school. Yeah, so, I feel sorry for you all who have to wear parkas year 'round. Eh.

Cynthetiq · 11-26-2003, 06:35 AM

all 1988 I remember that snow day fondly....

and now I live somewhere where it snows regularly

I love it...

there is skill involved in driving, somepeople have a hard time driving on dry pavement let alone snow.

Which in all fairness, if you were put into a situation where you didn't have the enough skill to do it, you'd look stupider too....

and yes... We don't flame here.. there's no ritual to it... you want that find a different board that supports those heretical ways.

feelgood · 11-26-2003, 07:49 AM

That's the thing about people's skills with driving. People would live in Canada and be able to endure shitload of snows every winter. But when it comes to driving, it's almost as if they never drove in snow condition roads and that just baffles me.

As for the flaming ritual, I used to hang around at cloud10's forum and every noobs or lurkers that post, they get flammed...

Cynthetiq · 11-26-2003, 07:53 AM

LOL OMG.. that's funny...because it snows and rains regularly here in NYC and people don't know how to walk with an umbrella, drive on the street, get on the bus, get into the subway....

a single snow flake or rain drop and it causes MASSIVE traffic jams

Holo · 11-26-2003, 08:08 AM

I'm blessed with a wonderful stepmom. I really think Dad should've married her first. She's so much better for him than my mother was. She has two college degrees and is VERY down to Earth while at the same time idleaistic. Not to sound weird but one day If I'm single again I hope I find someone like her peronality wise.

Now my mother OTOH....

viejo gringo · 11-26-2003, 08:28 AM

They had about 6 snowflakes down here, 3 years ago and they were talking on the news about closing the schools the next day...man, it clear down to 46 yesterday---winters over---76 for the rest of the week...

Mother -in-laws are something else...glad the court appointed me to take care of Dad's affairs. After she found out he had a little money, she did everything she could to get rid of him...cost me $10K to buy her off and get rid of her...hear she died somewhere out west all by her self...even her kids hated her....

Rodney · 11-26-2003, 09:06 AM

You're never too old to get a new step-parent. I'm in my late 40s and my widowed mom remarried just a few years ago -- she's 80, he's 85. I resisted calling him my step-dad at first, but now I do because he's part of the family.

Anyway, the deal with Lloyd is not that he's incompetent or foolish -- it's that he's frighteningly competent; knows how to repair, build, and upholster fine furniture, ran training schools for the developmentally disabled, captained an artillery battery in WWII and was in on the Battle of the Bulge, worked his way through college in the Depression, made a lot of money investing in the 90s and hung on to most of it. Still sharp as a tack, too. Frankly, he's intimidating :-).

Rubyee · 11-26-2003, 09:36 AM

My stepmom thinks that I will amount to nothing because I am monogamous and went to college instead of become a bartender like she did.

Dumb cunt.

pocon1 · 11-26-2003, 10:13 AM

I am visiting my stepmother after thanksgiving. She is a wonderful woman, just different than my mom. I don't know how my dad fell in love with two completely different women. Anyway, when my dad was dying of cancer, she took very good care of him, and after he died, my stepmother broke down in tears with my sister and I, saying that she was afraid that now that dad was dead, my sister and I would stop seeing her. Fortunately, this was not the truth. We still talk and visit with her, and she is going out to Tucson over Christmas to visit my sister. So we do love her, and I am sorry your stepmother cannot drive in the snow. Does she have any other skills?

feelgood · 11-26-2003, 10:42 AM

Compared to my mother, my stepmom hasn't amount to anything that I would considered a skill other than "influencing" my dad to do something that isn't considered "normal" of him.

She's just alright, her stupidity gets in the way from time to time.

SaltPork · 11-26-2003, 08:30 PM

My mother-in-law is okay by me. I have very few complaints, I'm one of the lucky ones.

striker3303 · 11-28-2003, 12:07 PM

Where would we be without idiots? They make the world go round.

rockzilla · 11-28-2003, 03:33 PM

My stepdad's okay. A bit of a wiener, but still okay.

MrFlux · 11-28-2003, 03:49 PM

I used to have one of those evil stepmothers you hear about in fairy tales. Talking smack about my mum (in front of me and my siblings), being mean in general etc. Glad my dad divorced her, his new partner is much nicer.

My stepdad is alright, a bit slow sometimes though. And him and my sister argue a lot, he needs to act his age.

vermin · 11-28-2003, 09:34 PM

My stepmother is the secretary from my dad's old place of employment that he was fucking while still married to my mom. Lots of issues there. He filed for the divorce the week between Christmas and New Year's. Tried to get my mom committed to make the divorce settlement go his way. Walked out on a lot of unpaid bills. Etc. She's dumb as a post but harmless.

guthmund · 11-29-2003, 01:34 AM

I get along very well with my first stepmother ( and really she'll always be the only stepmother), but I understand about the snow.

It seems that at even the hint of bad weather the locals IQ drops collectively about 20%

"Yeah, it's icing pretty bad, but I bet you I can control this big ass SUV at 80 m.p.h. After all, I've got four wheel drive. "

Lasereth · 12-01-2003, 03:47 PM

My stepmom can't stand me, my brother, and my sister. We don't mind her at all, but she fucking hates us with a passion. Of course, she blames the us...she says it's US that hates HER. Ha ha. I don't mind step parents. I get along with my stepdad just fine. It's SHE that can't accept others in the family but my dad. Oh well...3 more years and I'll be free from that shithole. Maybe next year if my mom signs for my college loans!

-Lasereth

Batman976 · 12-01-2003, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by pocon1
So we do love her, and I am sorry your stepmother cannot drive in the snow. Does she have any other skills?

Okay, I appologize... and it was a really sweet story, but the way you ended it really made me laugh. That said...

I got lucky in the step-parent department too. I have two awesome step-parents. I was pretty young when my parents divorced and remarried, so my step-parents pretty much raised me too.

The one bizarre thing, though, is that both of my step-parents used to be married to each other before marrying my parents. They just traded.

Mephisto2 · 12-01-2003, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Batman976

The one bizarre thing, though, is that both of my step-parents used to be married to each other before marrying my parents. They just traded.

That's just plain strange...

monkeysugar · 12-01-2003, 07:13 PM

I can't really say anything bad about either of my step-parents. I get along with both of them just fine, in fact better than my biological parents most of the time. *shrug* I guess we all have our stupid moments. That said, there is a difference between inexperience and stupidity.

dragon2fire · 12-01-2003, 10:22 PM

2 step moms both were bitches

one kept calling me a kid i was 18 and hated her for it

Plaid13 · 12-02-2003, 10:38 AM

i think some people just learn to drive when everything is perfect clear weather dry roads good car. then they never adjust there way of driving for conditions because the way they drive is burnt into there mind as the right way and the only way. personaly i learned to drive in a small 1989 plymoth cold hatchback with 4 bald tires and bad breaks. first time out with my dad it was a little after midnight and there was 2 inches of snow on all the roads and it was still windy and snowing. thats basicly how the first few of my months behind the wheel was. first time i was able to drive in a car that didnt suck on a dry road i was amazed at how easy it was. so maybe your step mom is just set in her ways behind the wheel. as far as getting a 4x4 stuck in a ditch.. just because it has 4 wheel drive dosnt mean it wont slide. sure its harder to get it stuck but they are harder to stop and just as hard to turn as anything else once you start to slide. but i could be wrong and she might just be a true moron

11-25-2003, 10:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
feelgood Free Mars! Location: I dunno, there's white people around me saying "eh" all the time	Step Mother (If you have one) I'm a new guy and I've been lurking around here for awhile, reading stuff and all so I figured that I might as well make my first post. To start off... It's official people...my step mother is stupider than I initially thought... I live in western Canada. We get more snow compared to Eastern Canada. I don't live in the city, just on a small farm in the middle of nowhere. So, a month or so ago, we had a fairly good snowstorm that dropped about 5-10 inch of snow, enough to get my step-mother's low rim car stuck. So, my dad and I got the tractor out and cleared the driveway so that the family wouldn't have any problem getting to work and school. But the first day after the snowstorm and clearing the road, my step mother gets stuck in the driveway with her low rim car (A Ford Taurus for those of you who are wondering) That's pretty understandable, all I had to do was give it a push and off to work she go. Now, tonight, several small snowstorm, bunch of sunny days and couple of road clearing later...She manages to get stuck again. Not with her car but with the goddam 4 wheel drive truck. I had no problem getting my car through the driveway, nor did my step sister with the Ford Tarus. And for some reason, my stepmom gets stuck in the goddam driveway, with a 4 wheel drive truck! God knows how she managed to veer off into the ditch. Share your experience with your stepdad, stepmom, step sister or bro if you have any And I'm ready for my flamming ritual __________________ Looking out the window, that's an act of war. Staring at my shoes, that's an act of war. Committing an act of war? Oh you better believe that's an act of war Last edited by feelgood; 11-25-2003 at 10:21 PM..

11-26-2003, 01:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	In all fairness... is it even plausible for someone who uses 'stupider' to apply it to someone? Ya know.. for arguement's sake. OK, joking aside. (You took that lightly I hope.) Ya know... I wouldn't really blame people for not adjusting to a new environment. I, for example, wouldn't know the first thing about about living in snow. I have lived in Southern California since I was 5 and it has snowed at this elevation a total of ONE time. That was in 1988. I was in elementry school. Yeah, so, I feel sorry for you all who have to wear parkas year 'round. Eh. __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

11-26-2003, 06:35 AM	#4 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	all 1988 I remember that snow day fondly.... and now I live somewhere where it snows regularly I love it... there is skill involved in driving, somepeople have a hard time driving on dry pavement let alone snow. Which in all fairness, if you were put into a situation where you didn't have the enough skill to do it, you'd look stupider too.... and yes... We don't flame here.. there's no ritual to it... you want that find a different board that supports those heretical ways. __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!

11-26-2003, 07:49 AM	#5 (permalink)
feelgood Free Mars! Location: I dunno, there's white people around me saying "eh" all the time	That's the thing about people's skills with driving. People would live in Canada and be able to endure shitload of snows every winter. But when it comes to driving, it's almost as if they never drove in snow condition roads and that just baffles me. As for the flaming ritual, I used to hang around at cloud10's forum and every noobs or lurkers that post, they get flammed... __________________ Looking out the window, that's an act of war. Staring at my shoes, that's an act of war. Committing an act of war? Oh you better believe that's an act of war

11-26-2003, 07:53 AM	#6 (permalink)
Cynthetiq Tilted Cat Head Administrator Location: Manhattan, NY	LOL OMG.. that's funny...because it snows and rains regularly here in NYC and people don't know how to walk with an umbrella, drive on the street, get on the bus, get into the subway.... a single snow flake or rain drop and it causes MASSIVE traffic jams __________________ I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not. What's the best nation in the world? DO-NATION!

11-26-2003, 12:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
cheerios Banned Location: 'bout 2 feet from my iMac	no flaming rituals here! I'd tell a stupid stepmom story, but, well... I don't have a stepmom. 'rents are still together. My dad drove into a phone pole in the fog once, does that count? (we don't have snow here, so really i have very little concept fo what you're talking about). sounds interesting, though!

11-26-2003, 08:08 AM	#7 (permalink)
Holo A Real American	I'm blessed with a wonderful stepmom. I really think Dad should've married her first. She's so much better for him than my mother was. She has two college degrees and is VERY down to Earth while at the same time idleaistic. Not to sound weird but one day If I'm single again I hope I find someone like her peronality wise. Now my mother OTOH.... __________________ I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince

11-26-2003, 08:28 AM	#8 (permalink)
viejo gringo Registered User Location: Deep South Texas	They had about 6 snowflakes down here, 3 years ago and they were talking on the news about closing the schools the next day...man, it clear down to 46 yesterday---winters over---76 for the rest of the week... Mother -in-laws are something else...glad the court appointed me to take care of Dad's affairs. After she found out he had a little money, she did everything she could to get rid of him...cost me $10K to buy her off and get rid of her...hear she died somewhere out west all by her self...even her kids hated her....

11-26-2003, 09:06 AM	#9 (permalink)
Rodney Observant Ruminant Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town	You're never too old to get a new step-parent. I'm in my late 40s and my widowed mom remarried just a few years ago -- she's 80, he's 85. I resisted calling him my step-dad at first, but now I do because he's part of the family. Anyway, the deal with Lloyd is not that he's incompetent or foolish -- it's that he's frighteningly competent; knows how to repair, build, and upholster fine furniture, ran training schools for the developmentally disabled, captained an artillery battery in WWII and was in on the Battle of the Bulge, worked his way through college in the Depression, made a lot of money investing in the 90s and hung on to most of it. Still sharp as a tack, too. Frankly, he's intimidating :-).

11-26-2003, 09:36 AM	#10 (permalink)
Rubyee I'm baaaaack!	My stepmom thinks that I will amount to nothing because I am monogamous and went to college instead of become a bartender like she did. Dumb cunt. __________________ You don't know from fun.

11-26-2003, 10:13 AM	#11 (permalink)
pocon1 Banned	I am visiting my stepmother after thanksgiving. She is a wonderful woman, just different than my mom. I don't know how my dad fell in love with two completely different women. Anyway, when my dad was dying of cancer, she took very good care of him, and after he died, my stepmother broke down in tears with my sister and I, saying that she was afraid that now that dad was dead, my sister and I would stop seeing her. Fortunately, this was not the truth. We still talk and visit with her, and she is going out to Tucson over Christmas to visit my sister. So we do love her, and I am sorry your stepmother cannot drive in the snow. Does she have any other skills?

11-26-2003, 10:42 AM	#12 (permalink)
feelgood Free Mars! Location: I dunno, there's white people around me saying "eh" all the time	Compared to my mother, my stepmom hasn't amount to anything that I would considered a skill other than "influencing" my dad to do something that isn't considered "normal" of him. She's just alright, her stupidity gets in the way from time to time. __________________ Looking out the window, that's an act of war. Staring at my shoes, that's an act of war. Committing an act of war? Oh you better believe that's an act of war

11-26-2003, 08:30 PM	#13 (permalink)
SaltPork Everything's better with bacon Location: In your local grocer's freezer.	My mother-in-law is okay by me. I have very few complaints, I'm one of the lucky ones. __________________ It was like that when I got here....I swear.

11-28-2003, 12:07 PM	#14 (permalink)
striker3303 Tilted Location: Olympia, WA	I love stupid people Where would we be without idiots? They make the world go round. __________________ Green mustard is the salvation

11-28-2003, 03:33 PM	#15 (permalink)
rockzilla Junkie Location: The Kitchen	My stepdad's okay. A bit of a wiener, but still okay.

11-28-2003, 03:49 PM	#16 (permalink)
MrFlux Fluxing wildly... Location: Auckland, New Zealand	I used to have one of those evil stepmothers you hear about in fairy tales. Talking smack about my mum (in front of me and my siblings), being mean in general etc. Glad my dad divorced her, his new partner is much nicer. My stepdad is alright, a bit slow sometimes though. And him and my sister argue a lot, he needs to act his age. __________________ flux (n.) Medicine. The discharge of large quantities of fluid material from the body, especially the discharge of watery feces from the intestines.

11-28-2003, 09:34 PM	#17 (permalink)
vermin Indifferent to anti-matter Location: Tucson, AZ	My stepmother is the secretary from my dad's old place of employment that he was fucking while still married to my mom. Lots of issues there. He filed for the divorce the week between Christmas and New Year's. Tried to get my mom committed to make the divorce settlement go his way. Walked out on a lot of unpaid bills. Etc. She's dumb as a post but harmless. __________________ If puns were sausages, this would be the wurst.

11-29-2003, 01:34 AM	#18 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	I get along very well with my first stepmother ( and really she'll always be the only stepmother), but I understand about the snow. It seems that at even the hint of bad weather the locals IQ drops collectively about 20% "Yeah, it's icing pretty bad, but I bet you I can control this big ass SUV at 80 m.p.h. After all, I've got four wheel drive. " __________________ No signature. None. Seriously.

12-01-2003, 03:47 PM	#19 (permalink)
Lasereth Knight of the Old Republic Location: Winston-Salem, NC	My stepmom can't stand me, my brother, and my sister. We don't mind her at all, but she fucking hates us with a passion. Of course, she blames the us...she says it's US that hates HER. Ha ha. I don't mind step parents. I get along with my stepdad just fine. It's SHE that can't accept others in the family but my dad. Oh well...3 more years and I'll be free from that shithole. Maybe next year if my mom signs for my college loans! -Lasereth __________________ "A Darwinian attacks his theory, seeking to find flaws. An ID believer defends his theory, seeking to conceal flaws." -Roger Ebert

12-01-2003, 07:13 PM	#22 (permalink)
monkeysugar I'll be on the veranda, since you're on the cross. Location: Rand McNally's friendliest small town in America. They must have strayed from the dodgy parts...	I can't really say anything bad about either of my step-parents. I get along with both of them just fine, in fact better than my biological parents most of the time. shrug I guess we all have our stupid moments. That said, there is a difference between inexperience and stupidity. __________________ I've got the love of my life and a job that I enjoy most of the time. Life is good.

12-01-2003, 10:22 PM	#23 (permalink)
dragon2fire Junkie	2 step moms both were bitches one kept calling me a kid i was 18 and hated her for it

12-02-2003, 10:38 AM	#24 (permalink)
Plaid13 I want a Plaid crayon	i think some people just learn to drive when everything is perfect clear weather dry roads good car. then they never adjust there way of driving for conditions because the way they drive is burnt into there mind as the right way and the only way. personaly i learned to drive in a small 1989 plymoth cold hatchback with 4 bald tires and bad breaks. first time out with my dad it was a little after midnight and there was 2 inches of snow on all the roads and it was still windy and snowing. thats basicly how the first few of my months behind the wheel was. first time i was able to drive in a car that didnt suck on a dry road i was amazed at how easy it was. so maybe your step mom is just set in her ways behind the wheel. as far as getting a 4x4 stuck in a ditch.. just because it has 4 wheel drive dosnt mean it wont slide. sure its harder to get it stuck but they are harder to stop and just as hard to turn as anything else once you start to slide. but i could be wrong and she might just be a true moron