Give me a reasonable explanation for a command, or leave me alone Exactly! I had terrible trouble in school with the teachers giving me the 'because I said so' line when I balked at obeying senseless

Gang aft a-gley:)

I'm really sorry. It's supposed to be anonymous of course. I sent an enquiry to the SBI people and didn't realise I'd be tagging everyone. I'm just so stupid sometimes, I shock even myself.

Thank you and apologies for my stupidity.

Thanks so much and sorry for the trouble.

Sorry, I didn't mean to tag everyone. I feel so silly now.

I'm so sorry. You weren't meant to be tagged. I was just trying to find out from the SBI people what had happened since the units didn't seem to be allocated.

Sorry, you weren't meant to be tagged. I was making an enquiry to the SBI people.

Oh no! I forgot sending an enquiry to SBI would tag you all. Dammit. It was meant to be anonymous.

Hi there I sent 10 hive 8 days ago and another 10 15 days ago but I've checked the accounts of the people I've sponsored and they seem to have no increase in their number of SBI units Thanks 8 days ago

Thanks so much Mr. G. I'm delira and excira, as we say in this part of the world, to appear on such a very short list.

Thanks a bunch Mr. G. Much appreciated. @galenkp

I remember once, when I was about ten, after watching The Waltons where the parents were forever hugging and kissing their children, I tried to kiss my mother goodnight. She recoiled in horror, said something

Hardly surprising since I've never written one, though I used to write song lyrics or my band many moons ago. Here's the only two I can still remember: Daylight dawns robots wake eat cornflakes use colgate

I'm not fond of peaches but I do like your words from source. I can often be found dangling all on my lonesome while writing gibberish to some but poetry to the more discerning.

We're just at the end of a three week heatwave that saw massive fires on the nearby mountain. What a fright we got when we had a military helicopter hover over our lake, likely considering drawing water

Yes, they're brilliant too. I think pyrography is what you do best.

Your mother sounds much like mine. She found it impossible ever to throw me a kind word. But that made me strong and determined to be nothing like her. And here I am, perfection personified:)

There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about my final sentence. I'm perfectly serious:)

I think that when children are bound too tightly, they're more likely to rebel and go looking for trouble. We, on the other hand, had the freedom to do pretty much as we pleased and rarely got into any.