🤣🤣🤣 You were ALWAYS a journalist/writer/reprter “Mom you always say (and I quote)…”. I’m dying laughing I couldn’t even get past that part and had to come laugh with you. Bah hah hah. Soooo Jenna. This is how I would imagine you as a little girl. 🤣
My runaway-bag was literally a t-shirt wrapped hanging from the end of a stick, because I had cartoon brain, believing the world beyond our house was nothing but Bugs Bunny land. It contained one apple, my bear “Daisy”, a sandwich, and a few toys because - priorities! I made it as far as a log about 40 ft from our back door. But I made sure to stay right there til dad got home and could see my seriousness, until supper was called.
ONGosh...you guys are cracking my ass up this morning. A stick and bandana? What a Maroon. Lol. I would 'run' away, which meant curling myself into the corner of the closet and pretending I was literally running away. Because husky little girls don't run anywhere.
President John Quincy Adams: “Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”
Hahhahaha!! I wish your mom would have taken a picture of you and your wonder woman backpack but you dressed up as wonder woman for your next public appearance would be a close second 😀.
My wife and I seriously considered moving to Holland and Sweden when the lock downs started happening in the US. It's a damn good thing we didn't because Holland locked down even harder and were even more draconian with their vaccine passports. Sweden might have been a good move but my wife wouldn't make any money out there as a vet, so paying back a mountain of school debt seemed even more daunting. Besides bland food and freezing ass weather, Sweden has their own migrant problems now.
There really isn't any other country to move to because we're dealing with a global cabal. If you do escape, it would only be a matter of time before you are sucked into their borg. So we stand and fight!!
A blogger I follow actually did move to Holland after the 2016 elections, seemed to work out OK for her (although the marriage didn't survive the move)
Running away was one of lifes passages on the way to adulthood. Your anecdote has brought back such memories. But is was a step in growing up. I fear these people have never moved beyond that phase of life. We need to move back to letting kids be kids and teaching resilience and responsibility.
Actually I kinda shocked my parents. We had a great relationship. I just had a traveling bone. And then when I stayed gone for that long, they were truly shocked. I never once called em for money, made my own way, learned a lot.
Jenna, were almost the exact same age (I’m a year older), and I also tried the running away thing around that age. Pretty sure my parents never even noticed I left. Lol. The 70s were wild parenting years.
Not AT ALL. Once we had a snow day (Colorado Springs), and a friend and I went out and snuck into the neighborhood pool. We were happily breaking the ice around the edge of the pool when I fell in. I’m a good swimmer, was on swim team, but I had all my winter clothes on and got sucked down. My friend pulled me out, we walked home, changed clothes, put everything in the dryer, and my mom never knew.
I can’t imagine a kid going through all that activity today without a parent having any idea. That’s only one of several times I almost died as a kid.
I remember when I was 5. Sitting there in the kitchen and I had a key in my hand. I saw an outlet. So, what do I do? Damn straight. I stuck that key in the hole. My parents were right there too...now that I look back, I think I remember my dad telling my mom to "Hush....just watch this!"
OMG I did the same *&@)!% thing with a bobby pin--and got third degree burns on my fingers!!! (What I lacked in common sense I made up for in curiosity hahahahaha)
Poor you! I was not burned or anything, I was fast. In and out. And thought I would get into trouble for doing it, so I pretended it never happened. I am pretty sure this is my super-hero origin story. Now if I can only figure out what my power is, because I have tried making people self combust just by looking at them. Sigh. The magic electricity did not give me the power I seek.
This is so great, and a perfect example of why we need dads in the home. Kids need to start learning about natural consequences when they’re young. I’m a mom, but I’m still going to say we do have a strong tendency to want to protect our kids, not always to their long-term benefit.
I very nearly drowned in a river once. Even though I was doing nothing naughty, I don't remember if I even mentioned it to my parents, and I very much doubt they would've remembered. Your parents would've probably been locked up.
Another true story: At about the same age (10ish), my sister actually DID try to drown me. When I got away, I ran gasping to my mother to tell her about the attempted murder. "The next time she does that," Mom said casually, "just swallow a bunch of water. Water has oxygen in it, so you'll last longer." I took this (patently false) belief with me into adulthood, just in case. ;)
My dad once whipped us around on the hood of a Buick Wildcat while we clutched the hood edge by the windshield. He was leaving for work second shift and we didn’t want him to go. We were teens, ran outside giggling, planning on pulling him down to the ground. He got to the car first and so we jumped on the hood and held on for our dear lives when he laughed and started doing wheelies in the gravel driveway. 🤣 It was glorious.
Oh my gosh, this is great! We had an old city dump truck that was the size of a regular pick up. My dad would put several of us in the back and drive somewhere close by and inevitably would put the dump up while he was driving, leaving us to hang on for our lives. Good times. Whenever I go back to a reunion people still talk about My dad (he’s still alive, they just remember the stuff he did).
Bahahaha dads are the BEST! Mine (sadly no longer with us) would let us ride in the back of his pickup in LAWN CHAIRS--then he'd drive down our bumpy country roads at top speed, slamming on the breaks so that the chairs would fold in on us. Good times! :) (Also as much as I loved it, I would have KILLED my husband if he tried that with our daughters hahahahahaha.)
Indeed. Really dangerous. My friends teenage daughter was paralyzed for life,waist down,from that exact thing. Only the truck hit a pothole,and,the poor girl flew out…25+ years ago…it’s just not something we think could ever really happen…except,we moms know..
That’s what I was going to say…We ROAMED…at VERY young (5-6-7)ages We simply had no supervision in the 60s…,I left every day from morning, till the sun came down. My dog,the creek,wild plums and blackberries my survival food…. I know it must have rained in my childhood,but,I don’t remember it,or,what I did on rainy days…
Love starting my day with a dose of your humor dear Jenna. 🤣🤣🤣🥰
My nail tech’s client told her to soak off her acrylics. She’s moving to Chinada - er, I mean Canada.
I took a screenshot of your info on Canada and texted it to her so she can text it to her client. 🤣😂🤣. I’m so grateful my nail tech is of sound mind. She was very happy when I saw her on Monday. 🥰
You should have been a counsellor 😆 libtards seem to have zero resilience these days plus lack big picture thinking outside of their little narc world. Parent to child throwing hissy fit: “Trump is trying to bring security and prosperity to the US and was heavily thwarted last time so this time he is doubling down on actually helping you”
Libtards is right - they’re even making fun & complaining about Elon & Vivek wanting to stop the government from wasting our tax dollars on stupid stuff. Huh?
The moral of your great story is that disgruntled Democrats threatening to leave America and bratty 10 year olds, have equivalent emotional intelligence.
Love the brat runaway story intro! I hope you've since been able to score the Saturday Night Fever album. (I loved several tracks, but this was probably my favorite: https://youtu.be/7sxpwDLon-8?si=3ohBzsGdUIxFBum0
My very first music purchase was an 8-track of …. Wait for it … Andy Gibb. Cuz he was the cutest Bee Gee. 🤣 I had a large poster of him on my bedroom wall that I would cry over nightly before bed, dreaming of the day we would be wed. 🤣 It was next to my David Cassidy poster who was a hot second.
I had Shawn Cassidy, Leif Garrett... and Farrah Fawcett (yup, the famous red swimsuit/nipple pic). If I were a kid today, people would probably be trying to transition me for that! SMH
This whole thread is making my morning!! Thank you very funny, smart witty ladies. We need to make a podcast like the View only smash it with shit like this.
But who didn't want Farrah's hair? Sadly my hair stylists's version of the "Farrah cut" made me look like a Muppet. Wore a toque all day at school for weeks! (Toque = Canadian for winter hat.)
Nevermind Farrah Fawcett's hair. I wanted David Cassidy's! My mom took me to her hairdresser (who had a hair salon in her basement) and I brought a photo of David Cassidy so she could cut mine like his (not sure she even knew who he was). She did a pretty good job, but unfortuntely my hair didn't cooperate after the first wash and after that it just looked like a mop. That was well before all the great styling tools they have now.
On one of our first dates in 1986 Hubs and I went to Tahoe to see Joan Rivers. Her opening act was Andy Gibb. He was the hottest. When I was 12. Little different at 21. So sad he died. But David Cassidy was IT for me. Then in high school it was David Lee Roth (back when he was so so hot). Now it is still Cullen Bohanon from Hell on Wheels. Not the guy who plays him, but the actual character. If that showed up at my door, I would have to tell Hubs "Yeah, I love you but I have to go now."
David Cassidy was also IT for me too and a bit Bobby Sherman. I moved on after them to the bad boy, Mick Jagger. Nobody could (can?) swagger like him. I saw the Stones for 3 days in a row in Houston back in 1981. I knew a music insider and went to a preparty. I was so disappointed when they didn't make an appearance.
My cousin threatened to run away every day when we were kids…we’d sing the “nobody loves me” song (just the first verse, the rest was gross) to her to get her even more riled up. My aunt answered every, “Where’s Marni?” question with, “She ran away” for years!
Once the election was tallied and we knew the winner I felt that all the bluster from the WEF and the incredible situation south of Arizona would soon be changed.
Man, that first part about you as a kid had me laughing out loud!!😂😂. Great way to get the hubby’s attention at coffee time!
Reminds me of my daughter. When she was 6, (6! mind you!) she told me she was running away (I don’t remember why, and also WHO put that notion in her head?!?) and she walked out the front door to sit on the curb of our cul-de-sac. Minutes later, she was back for lunch.😄.
🤣🤣🤣 You were ALWAYS a journalist/writer/reprter “Mom you always say (and I quote)…”. I’m dying laughing I couldn’t even get past that part and had to come laugh with you. Bah hah hah. Soooo Jenna. This is how I would imagine you as a little girl. 🤣
My runaway-bag was literally a t-shirt wrapped hanging from the end of a stick, because I had cartoon brain, believing the world beyond our house was nothing but Bugs Bunny land. It contained one apple, my bear “Daisy”, a sandwich, and a few toys because - priorities! I made it as far as a log about 40 ft from our back door. But I made sure to stay right there til dad got home and could see my seriousness, until supper was called.
OMG the stick/bandana thing was everything! Hahahaha.
My own sister helped me pack it. She was dead serious and eager to get rid of me. 🤣
I would have totally helped my sister with that as well🤣🤣🤣
LMAO I had the same thought re: Jenna and her literally quoting her Mom and informing her Mom that she was quoting her. 😂😂😂 SO precious!!
ONGosh...you guys are cracking my ass up this morning. A stick and bandana? What a Maroon. Lol. I would 'run' away, which meant curling myself into the corner of the closet and pretending I was literally running away. Because husky little girls don't run anywhere.
Ditto! If celebrities “feel” the USA is “unsafe,” by all means, do let the screen door hit you on the way out!
The more leave, the less Democrat voters. BTW Trump says he'll make sure they get 20 million less voters for 2028 by deportation.
So the USA might become a uniparty system after all !
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Hahhahaha!! I wish your mom would have taken a picture of you and your wonder woman backpack but you dressed up as wonder woman for your next public appearance would be a close second 😀.
My wife and I seriously considered moving to Holland and Sweden when the lock downs started happening in the US. It's a damn good thing we didn't because Holland locked down even harder and were even more draconian with their vaccine passports. Sweden might have been a good move but my wife wouldn't make any money out there as a vet, so paying back a mountain of school debt seemed even more daunting. Besides bland food and freezing ass weather, Sweden has their own migrant problems now.
There really isn't any other country to move to because we're dealing with a global cabal. If you do escape, it would only be a matter of time before you are sucked into their borg. So we stand and fight!!
A blogger I follow actually did move to Holland after the 2016 elections, seemed to work out OK for her (although the marriage didn't survive the move)
Running away was one of lifes passages on the way to adulthood. Your anecdote has brought back such memories. But is was a step in growing up. I fear these people have never moved beyond that phase of life. We need to move back to letting kids be kids and teaching resilience and responsibility.
I actually did. Ran away to Richmond, then here, the New Orleans, then home. Five year cruise. Left at 15.
I've known a few who pulled that off; usually about that age, and quite often their parents gave them a helpful shove.
Actually I kinda shocked my parents. We had a great relationship. I just had a traveling bone. And then when I stayed gone for that long, they were truly shocked. I never once called em for money, made my own way, learned a lot.
Jenna, were almost the exact same age (I’m a year older), and I also tried the running away thing around that age. Pretty sure my parents never even noticed I left. Lol. The 70s were wild parenting years.
Right? We roamed the streets and they had NO IDEA where we were or what we were doing. Can you imagine that today?
Not AT ALL. Once we had a snow day (Colorado Springs), and a friend and I went out and snuck into the neighborhood pool. We were happily breaking the ice around the edge of the pool when I fell in. I’m a good swimmer, was on swim team, but I had all my winter clothes on and got sucked down. My friend pulled me out, we walked home, changed clothes, put everything in the dryer, and my mom never knew.
I can’t imagine a kid going through all that activity today without a parent having any idea. That’s only one of several times I almost died as a kid.
I remember when I was 5. Sitting there in the kitchen and I had a key in my hand. I saw an outlet. So, what do I do? Damn straight. I stuck that key in the hole. My parents were right there too...now that I look back, I think I remember my dad telling my mom to "Hush....just watch this!"
OMG I did the same *&@)!% thing with a bobby pin--and got third degree burns on my fingers!!! (What I lacked in common sense I made up for in curiosity hahahahaha)
Poor you! I was not burned or anything, I was fast. In and out. And thought I would get into trouble for doing it, so I pretended it never happened. I am pretty sure this is my super-hero origin story. Now if I can only figure out what my power is, because I have tried making people self combust just by looking at them. Sigh. The magic electricity did not give me the power I seek.
I know what you mean. Stupid people are like glow sticks…I want to crack them,and,shake them till the light comes on…maybe magic would help….
This is so great, and a perfect example of why we need dads in the home. Kids need to start learning about natural consequences when they’re young. I’m a mom, but I’m still going to say we do have a strong tendency to want to protect our kids, not always to their long-term benefit.
I should have said I was 10 at the time.
I very nearly drowned in a river once. Even though I was doing nothing naughty, I don't remember if I even mentioned it to my parents, and I very much doubt they would've remembered. Your parents would've probably been locked up.
Another true story: At about the same age (10ish), my sister actually DID try to drown me. When I got away, I ran gasping to my mother to tell her about the attempted murder. "The next time she does that," Mom said casually, "just swallow a bunch of water. Water has oxygen in it, so you'll last longer." I took this (patently false) belief with me into adulthood, just in case. ;)
Once again, the "LIKE" button FAILS to capture the sentiment but waddayagonnado...
LOL!😳Did your mother actually believe this,or,was she in on the plan with your sister…? Damn!
I see where you get your sense of humor!
My dad once whipped us around on the hood of a Buick Wildcat while we clutched the hood edge by the windshield. He was leaving for work second shift and we didn’t want him to go. We were teens, ran outside giggling, planning on pulling him down to the ground. He got to the car first and so we jumped on the hood and held on for our dear lives when he laughed and started doing wheelies in the gravel driveway. 🤣 It was glorious.
Oh my gosh, this is great! We had an old city dump truck that was the size of a regular pick up. My dad would put several of us in the back and drive somewhere close by and inevitably would put the dump up while he was driving, leaving us to hang on for our lives. Good times. Whenever I go back to a reunion people still talk about My dad (he’s still alive, they just remember the stuff he did).
Bahahaha dads are the BEST! Mine (sadly no longer with us) would let us ride in the back of his pickup in LAWN CHAIRS--then he'd drive down our bumpy country roads at top speed, slamming on the breaks so that the chairs would fold in on us. Good times! :) (Also as much as I loved it, I would have KILLED my husband if he tried that with our daughters hahahahahaha.)
Your dad and mine must be the same generation.
Indeed. Really dangerous. My friends teenage daughter was paralyzed for life,waist down,from that exact thing. Only the truck hit a pothole,and,the poor girl flew out…25+ years ago…it’s just not something we think could ever really happen…except,we moms know..
That’s what I was going to say…We ROAMED…at VERY young (5-6-7)ages We simply had no supervision in the 60s…,I left every day from morning, till the sun came down. My dog,the creek,wild plums and blackberries my survival food…. I know it must have rained in my childhood,but,I don’t remember it,or,what I did on rainy days…
Love starting my day with a dose of your humor dear Jenna. 🤣🤣🤣🥰
My nail tech’s client told her to soak off her acrylics. She’s moving to Chinada - er, I mean Canada.
I took a screenshot of your info on Canada and texted it to her so she can text it to her client. 🤣😂🤣. I’m so grateful my nail tech is of sound mind. She was very happy when I saw her on Monday. 🥰
You should have been a counsellor 😆 libtards seem to have zero resilience these days plus lack big picture thinking outside of their little narc world. Parent to child throwing hissy fit: “Trump is trying to bring security and prosperity to the US and was heavily thwarted last time so this time he is doubling down on actually helping you”
Libtards is right - they’re even making fun & complaining about Elon & Vivek wanting to stop the government from wasting our tax dollars on stupid stuff. Huh?
You see all they can do is belittle and make fun because they can’t substantiate their claims
The moral of your great story is that disgruntled Democrats threatening to leave America and bratty 10 year olds, have equivalent emotional intelligence.
Love the brat runaway story intro! I hope you've since been able to score the Saturday Night Fever album. (I loved several tracks, but this was probably my favorite: https://youtu.be/7sxpwDLon-8?si=3ohBzsGdUIxFBum0
THE BEST!!! I finally got Grease, but I think I was stuck waiting for Casey Kasem's top 40 countdown to hear such delights... ;)
My very first music purchase was an 8-track of …. Wait for it … Andy Gibb. Cuz he was the cutest Bee Gee. 🤣 I had a large poster of him on my bedroom wall that I would cry over nightly before bed, dreaming of the day we would be wed. 🤣 It was next to my David Cassidy poster who was a hot second.
I preferred Shawn Cassidy and had his poster on my wall and I would also stare at it and dream of the day we would wed. 🤪😂
I had Shawn Cassidy, Leif Garrett... and Farrah Fawcett (yup, the famous red swimsuit/nipple pic). If I were a kid today, people would probably be trying to transition me for that! SMH
This whole thread is making my morning!! Thank you very funny, smart witty ladies. We need to make a podcast like the View only smash it with shit like this.
This is a very inspiring idea 🤔🤔🤔
But who didn't want Farrah's hair? Sadly my hair stylists's version of the "Farrah cut" made me look like a Muppet. Wore a toque all day at school for weeks! (Toque = Canadian for winter hat.)
Nevermind Farrah Fawcett's hair. I wanted David Cassidy's! My mom took me to her hairdresser (who had a hair salon in her basement) and I brought a photo of David Cassidy so she could cut mine like his (not sure she even knew who he was). She did a pretty good job, but unfortuntely my hair didn't cooperate after the first wash and after that it just looked like a mop. That was well before all the great styling tools they have now.
Wikipedia's FF article reads:
"The resulting image of Fawcett in a one-piece red bathing suit is the best-selling poster in history."
(Only because guys didn't have access to poster-sized Xerox machines.)
I even found a link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett_red_swimsuit_poster#/media/File:Farrah_Fawcett_iconic_pinup_1976.jpg
(...and nearly put my eye out.)
🤣🤣🤣🤣
On one of our first dates in 1986 Hubs and I went to Tahoe to see Joan Rivers. Her opening act was Andy Gibb. He was the hottest. When I was 12. Little different at 21. So sad he died. But David Cassidy was IT for me. Then in high school it was David Lee Roth (back when he was so so hot). Now it is still Cullen Bohanon from Hell on Wheels. Not the guy who plays him, but the actual character. If that showed up at my door, I would have to tell Hubs "Yeah, I love you but I have to go now."
David Cassidy was also IT for me too and a bit Bobby Sherman. I moved on after them to the bad boy, Mick Jagger. Nobody could (can?) swagger like him. I saw the Stones for 3 days in a row in Houston back in 1981. I knew a music insider and went to a preparty. I was so disappointed when they didn't make an appearance.
I was a bit more entranced by Susan Dey. (And she reminded me of the older sister of my sister’s best friend. It was complicated.)
Wow. Funny!
"Celebrities" make a living by doing "play pretend", so they will never actually leave!
Omg Jenna - I’ve only read the title & subtitle and had to stop and THANK YOU for your beautiful comedic mind!
My cousin threatened to run away every day when we were kids…we’d sing the “nobody loves me” song (just the first verse, the rest was gross) to her to get her even more riled up. My aunt answered every, “Where’s Marni?” question with, “She ran away” for years!
Literal LOL! Kids today would never threaten to run away--they'd threaten to call CPS!
Mine still do and they are 32 and 34.
Once the election was tallied and we knew the winner I felt that all the bluster from the WEF and the incredible situation south of Arizona would soon be changed.
Now we watch and see the powers to be...
no matter what the country feels better!
A friend posted on FB that he would leave but can’t afford it. I will send him this post!
I would think Chyna would be a good landing spot for these folks that want their life scripted for them by a peace loving government?
Man, that first part about you as a kid had me laughing out loud!!😂😂. Great way to get the hubby’s attention at coffee time!
Reminds me of my daughter. When she was 6, (6! mind you!) she told me she was running away (I don’t remember why, and also WHO put that notion in her head?!?) and she walked out the front door to sit on the curb of our cul-de-sac. Minutes later, she was back for lunch.😄.
But your story is WAY better.