Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for January 17, 2025

Then, why did we got through two radios and two TV sets when we were ‘growing up’ ???

When you get another one, put it in your room and lock the door. For YOU not the girls. They can earn $ for a new one.

Lawn darts?

You may have deserved it.

Self-inflicted?

I’d go a step further than ‘IndyMan’ suggests. No replacement television accompanied by lots of chores to fill in the time that was freed up by not watching their shows.

I’m slow…. I just caught the resemblance between the 2 generations, lol. Seems to be more than superficial, too!

That scar was your own fault!

My baby sisters were jumping on in the bed when they were little resulting in the upper teeth of the older sister imbedded in the scalp of the younger. Horrific tragedy, head wounds bleed profusely, poor sweetheart.

Dang! What a coincidence. I have scar on top of my head courtesy of my older brother. I got beaned with a boomerang.

There’s probably (we’ve since sold Mom’s house, so who knows?) still a dimple in the living room ceiling where my sister’s butt hit it while the two overgrown male children were swinging her with one hand each on an ankle and wrist.