Kids: Love of your life or walking petri dishes?

[Simplex3]

So my daughter started pre-school this last year and I've been sick damn near non-stop. I've probably been sick more in the past few months than the preceeding 31 years combined.

For those of you who go to the doctors for antibiotics when you get sick, don't bother. I was already on antibiotics for an infected toe (I have new respect for athletes with toe injuries) when I got this latest cold.

[ct]

Originally Posted by KCTitus

FTR, Honda Odyssey is a cool minivan and Chuck E. Cheese has beer...my 18 yo self would be kicking my a$$ if he were reading this.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Good point. But for the money, you can buy a comely Brazilian maid.


So let's stack up the pros and cons.

Pro-Children

1. Some minivans are cool, according to Titus.
2. They can bring you things.
3. The whole passing down the genes thing.
4. You can get drunk at Chuck E. Cheese.

Anti-Children

1. They're disease carriers, like flies and rodents.
2. You lose your home office/TV room/fortress of solitude to them.
3. They're immature until they finally leave.
4. They're expensive.
5. They prevent you from hiring comely Brazilian maids.
6. They make you buy minivans, which honestly are never cool.

What else we got?

You can mold them to think like you think.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Good point. But for the money, you can buy a comely Brazilian maid.


So let's stack up the pros and cons.

Pro-Children

1. Some minivans are cool, according to Titus.
2. They can bring you things.
3. The whole passing down the genes thing.
4. You can get drunk at Chuck E. Cheese.

Anti-Children

1. They're disease carriers, like flies and rodents.
2. You lose your home office/TV room/fortress of solitude to them.
3. They're immature until they finally leave.
4. They're expensive.
5. They prevent you from hiring comely Brazilian maids.
6. They make you buy minivans, which honestly are never cool.

What else we got?

I'd add the continuation of the human race to the Pro list.

Well, most of the time anyway.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

You can mold them to think like you think.

Maybe, but I can do that on Chiefsplanet for free.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

You can mold them to think like you think.

Heh. You don't have children, I take it.

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I don't understand why people have kids. You voluntarily give up your retirement Ferrari to raise them, and then you have someone in your house for 18 years with an average mental age of 9. Plus, you apparently have to drive a minivan and eat at Chuck E. Cheese a lot.

Because thus sayeth the Lord, "Be fruitful and multiply."

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by bunnytrdr

Because thus sayeth the Lord, "Be fruitful and multiply."

Actually, God said in 1995 through a spokesman that he was misquoted on that, and it was taken out of context. He says that his actual intent was to encourage schoolchildren to eat healthy and practice their math.

I can't find a link.

[KCTitus]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

1. Some minivans are cool, according to Titus.

I have to convince myself of that...it's the only way to keep my sanity.