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College Students Call Police, Seek Counseling After Seeing Mouse
The Social Memo ^ | 9/28/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 09/28/2015 1:14:35 PM PDT by rightistight

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To: rightistight

Too many helicopter parents doting on their one or two special snowflakes.

Now all of society is expected to cater to them as well.


21 posted on 09/28/2015 1:32:54 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: rightistight

If you’ve been in an elementary school classroom in the last 20 years, you may have noticed the desks pushed together in groups of 4. This is to encourage collaboration or something like that, but the real result is students never have to face a problem without the crutch of having other students to help them.

I recently was part of a master planning process for a college. Turns out, the contemporary college classroom is not a lecture hall, but rather a flat room with desks on wheels - so they can me moved around and pushed together, just like that elementary school classroom. Makes sense - those 1st graders are now in college, and expect to be put in small groups.


22 posted on 09/28/2015 1:34:06 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: toast

My apartment didn’t have rats but we did have plenty of cockroaches. Always had to be sure to cycle the toaster once before putting in any bread. Usually one or two dozen cockroaches would be seen scurrying away.


23 posted on 09/28/2015 1:34:55 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: thackney
it's a solvable problem ...


24 posted on 09/28/2015 1:35:01 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Dr. Sivana

With a real education which included a heavy emphasis on, “I’m the baddest ass on the planet Americanism”


25 posted on 09/28/2015 1:36:27 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: knarf

We had a mouse in the house about 30 years ago. My mother was up on the kitchen chair like the women in Bugs Bunny cartoons.


26 posted on 09/28/2015 1:38:25 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Alas Babylon!

They should have just told the cops it was a small dog.


27 posted on 09/28/2015 1:38:46 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: NorthMountain

For you and me, sure, no problem.

But for some of the kids I met the last few years, that would be more than they could handle.

I know a few that might set the trap, but just cover it with a towel if it caught something. If it didn’t stink too bad, it would stay that way, I believe.


28 posted on 09/28/2015 1:38:58 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: samtheman

And with young people who admired and aspired to become adults.
Contrast to today, with young people believing absolutely that they are superior to adults in every way, and chronological “adults” who do NOT want to behave in any form of a grown up fashion.

Dear Lord, guide and strengthen us.
Tatt


29 posted on 09/28/2015 1:40:21 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: rightistight

We are soooo screwed.


30 posted on 09/28/2015 1:43:45 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“A bunch of young men with an eighth grade education but average to above average common sense mindful of their duties.”

8th grade education in 1940 > Masters in anything in humanities today


31 posted on 09/28/2015 1:43:48 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: thackney
Easier to call a rat a pet than to have to deal with catching it

They did take it with them when they left. So I tended to believe them.

32 posted on 09/28/2015 1:47:50 PM PDT by toast
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To: Paul46360
It's the damn baby millennials.

It has a more to do with upbringing than anything else. My two millenials are just fine. One works in a hospital trauma center in Tucson. The other is an FBI agent in D.C.
33 posted on 09/28/2015 1:48:24 PM PDT by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Oatka
"If (God forbid), TS ever does HTF, the casualty rate will be horrendous."

The question I would ask is whether civilization will be better or worse. I look around, at all the sleeve tatted hipsters with pitbulls, and wonder about ammo stocks. I'm not sure I have enough.

Personally, remind me again why we have to wait.

34 posted on 09/28/2015 1:48:34 PM PDT by jonascord (It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
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To: NewHampshireDuo

We had loads of roaches too. But that was a different story.


35 posted on 09/28/2015 1:48:43 PM PDT by toast
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To: Obadiah

My wife recently started as a mental health counselor at a private university. On her first day she came home amazed at the types of “problems” the kids presented with. Zero coping skills. One night while on call (yes, they have on call counselors) she got a call from a kid who said he couldn’t sleep. She politely told the kid that not falling to sleep is certainly NOT an after-hours emergency, to try some warm milk and call his Mom.

She sees lots of: boyfriend/girlfriend broke up with me, drank too much at a party and slept with some guy who won’t call me back, don’t want to be majoring in “fill in blank” but I’m afraid to tell my parents, roommate issues. She also noted that nearly 100% of the kids she sees admit to smoking pot regularly.


36 posted on 09/28/2015 1:49:53 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: rightistight

I went to a military college, i don’t think they even had shrinks like this, and they’d damn sure laugh you out if you went for a mouse.


37 posted on 09/28/2015 1:54:32 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss my dad.)
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To: rightistight
Here are the types of problems I had in college.

The dang 10 year old POS car won't start and I have test in fluid mechanics in an hour. Next months tuition bill has come and I don't have the money. I haven't eaten all day and its snowing.

By today's standards I should have jumped off a bridge.

38 posted on 09/28/2015 1:54:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Paul46360

I saw that story. They were absolutely right!


39 posted on 09/28/2015 1:55:42 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: rightistight

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dead+mouse&go=Submit&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=dead+mouse&sc=8-10&sp=-1&sk=


40 posted on 09/28/2015 1:58:29 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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