You're welcome. The thing that gets me the most, and maybe I'm in a bad mood or maybe I'm just so jaded anymore where sense and sensibility used to be logic has run screaming for the hills - but hear me out.
When we were younger and I'm 4.....T something hahaha. Okay I'm 47. I can remember MY Mother and she was a GREAT Mom, buying Lava soap. I can also remember NOTHING -and I mean NOTHING in our house havning safety seals, or child proof caps. And I'm not going to debate whether I think helmets for bicycles are good or not - I never wore one, took many spills and I'm just fine. (LOOKS AROUND WITH MENACING EYES) HOWEVER when we used swear or curse words we KNEW without a doubt the next words out of my Mothers mouth were "STAR! I'm going to wash your mouth out with soap." and there was no threat to that. If she said it? You got it. She didn't forget, she didn't have to wait until she got done typing an email, she said it, she GOT UP, and you got a bar of LAVA raked across your teeth from back to front, and then you got "THE SPEECH" about using ugly words with such a pretty mouth, how ladies didn't talk like that, SHE didn't use words like that, WE never heard words like that in OUR home, and BY GOLLY she was right - Even my Father was forbidden from swearing because once he had daughters? It wasn't proper and she was HAVING NONE.OF.IT and if she was going to make this much of an all around effort? You had better believe she was following through if we said the D word, the S word, the H word. At that time those were the big three. We didn't know any others. Never heard any others. Until school and then school added the B word, and if you used THAT one? You got soap AND your Fathers wrath. Because that was against your Mother and well - that wasn't even done. So ------with that mentality in mind? We lived a nice, lady-like life.
No one EVER considered picking up the phone and calling the police to say "Hello officer, I just called my Mom a B, she raked Lava across my teeth, and now my father is going to give me a talking to when I get home and I probably will go to bed without supper - COME SAVE ME." It would have been laughable. Even IF I had called and said "MY Mother is spanking me and putting soap in my mouth? No one would have rolled up in a cruiser with CPS and took me away. I DISOBEYED the house rules, I got punished END.OF.STORY.
SO NOW? Kids are PUTTING soap in their mouth....or rather SANITIZER? and no one is calling the police? Or the police are being called and they are doing NOTHING? I don't get it. I'm not that old, but IF a PARENT in these times did this? And a child called? That kid would be in CPS custody, the parent would be in jail under tons of abuse charges, and the story would be on the front page! But let the kid down a bottle of Purel on his own and hes a sensation with his pals, his parents are fed up, and the authorities do nothing.
I can't IMAGINE ever walking into the bathroom 40 years ago and holding out a bar of soap and thinking "OKAY I'm going to PURPOSELY eat this and lets see what it does." My thoughts are leaning towards the kids that are doing this have HAD to have eaten SOMETHING before the hand sanitizer that burned out the majority of their FORMER brain cells, and turned them into goats that will eat near anything. Whats next Massengil? I mean may as well......they're already calling each other douches.
Dumb@##.