The plot thickens. I can’t get a thing done without checking this thread. Poor boys - if she transfers her attentions to them!
KC - You didn’t chose “Wicked Witch of the CotswAld Cheese” as your sig?
Lordy, lordy, its no comfort to me to know GB has trailer trash same as GA.
Meaning the mom of the child, not Gran, not OP. To be fair, you dont have to live in a trailer to have a kid like this.
These children are how I earn my bread and butter, writing assessments of purely dysfunctional families once the children go into care. Often the poor sick elderly grandparents are the only relatives available to try to rehab these kids.
Got a not completely similar situation right next door, clueless granddad blowing me off when I blew a gasket at his granddaughter being in the pasture with my horses. Finally I explained to him in words of one syllable that I Did Not WANT to Report a Neighbor to Child Protective Services but that I would be OBLIGED to because I am a Mandated Reporter because I am a nurse as well as actually working with CPS cases.
That finally got his attention. His granddaughter’s mother is a willful, heedless, daughter of a mother who I strongly suspect of having sociopathic tendencies. So it remains to be seen whether our neighbor’s little darling becomes third generation or if grandpa’s ongoing lack of supervision and actual encouraging his grandchild to pull stunts like avoiding the shock from my fence by rolling under it will correct her genetic predisposition.
Folks, I wish it warnt so, but an awful lot of awful behavior is hereditary. And then the environment confirms it.
To the OP, good luck and best wishes. Make friends with your local equivalent of Child Welfare if this kid stays in your vicinity.
IT HAPPENED TO ME JUST YESTERDAY!!
yesterday, I happened to come home early from work for a blacksmith appointment, and found 2 small kids - toddlers, about 2 and 3 yrs old, in with my mares and foals! I chased them home and banged on the door to their house. after a few minutes a very disoriented young mother stumbled to the door and explained that she had been sleeping. After I handed her the toys her brats had left on my front porch (they had obviously been there for awhile if they had set up shop on my porch), she said “oh, wow”. Next time I will call Child welfare and report her. her kids could’ve been killed! she did NOT get it…:mad:
Heck, I am still trying to figure out why anyone would think Dorothy was a Brit!
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I didn’t word the glove thing very well. My fault really. [/QUOTE]
No dear your wording was just fine…
Let’s hope you find your fencing all up nice and tidy and that maybe with the cold shoulder she is getting from the boys, we can only hope to turn this girl into a more “humble tigger”.
Well, in the movie, Toto looked lika a Cairn Terrier, and that breed originated in the UK, so maybe Dorothy must have…
No, you can’t get there from here. 
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yesterday, I happened to come home early from work for a blacksmith appointment, and found 2 small kids - toddlers, about 2 and 3 yrs old, in with my mares and foals! I chased them home and banged on the door to their house. after a few minutes a very disoriented young mother stumbled to the door and explained that she had been sleeping. After I handed her the toys her brats had left on my front porch (they had obviously been there for awhile if they had set up shop on my porch), she said “oh, wow”. Next time I will call Child welfare and report her. her kids could’ve been killed! she did NOT get it…:mad:[/QUOTE]
I don’t think I’d wait for a next time. At 2 and 3 years old, these children are not old enough to be responsible for their actions, and the results thereof. Please do call and report her. Social services should do plenty of followup and you might just save these children’s lives! Mother needs a serious wake up call!
I think he got “Dorthy and OZ” confused with “Alice in Wonderland”.
Was there a Wicked Witch in Alice in Wonderland??
Wow…I haven’t actually read all of this until just today (though I started to). I have to say, I was a “child in someone else’s pasture” and if I saw some kid like me out in my pasture now, I would have a conniption fit - but that probably wouldn’t even begin to describe what I’d look like if they were chasing my horses. I never chased the horses - instead, I’d groom them, pull all the burs from their manes and tails, take water to them when the *&%$ farmer locked them out of the pond field (it was all barbed wire fencing and my 10-year old knobby-kneed body didn’t have the strength to open that kind of gate), feed them carrots, call the *&%$ farmer when I found a horse with a broken shoulder standing in pain, etc. These horses were right next door to my house and I would go in there practically every day. I did meet people who boarded their horses there and they were always friendly and kind to me - offered to let me ride, etc. In fact, one of the boarders lived in my neighborhood and I’d get the care of his mare when he was out of town (she got grain in a nosebag - kept in his garage).
Kookiecat - I hope all is well and thanks a lot for giving me something entertaining to read. :winkgrin:
No, but considering how my dad used to get “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” jumbled up with “Cinderella” I can see how facinated could get other literary characters/story lines jumbled… then again, am I being too generous in my giving him the benefit of the doubt?
I have to interject.
My father loved, loved, LOVED the Disney version of Snow White. In the days before video, we would see it in the theater anytime they rolled it out.
When it finally did come out on video, every member of the family gave him a copy for Christmas. :lol:
Thanks for reminding me of that. 
I’m still trying to get my head wrapped around the association of the Cotswolds with any type of cheese. Granted, I have never been to GB and dont know that there isnt a Cotswold cheese. However, if we’re conflating Alice and Dorothy we might as well have a Cheshire (named for the cheese) Cat. Or Witch.
Then there’s the Chessie cat, a different feline altogether.
This thread is SO getting nominated for year-end awards!
Nope, but there’s an evil Queen of Cards. The Queen of Hearts, to be exact. Now was Lewis Carrol being ironic, using hearts to portray a wicked woman? Oh the conundrum!
Dorothy was from Kansas, not GB. So I’m not quite sure how fakinated got that little tidbit confused.
Kookie, love the new siggy line. What I want to know, what kind of cheese? Swiss, Muenster, Cheddar, or Limburger? 
I got the connection!! Judy Garland also played in National Velvet!! Oh…uh…nevermind…
I kinda like Cheddar…
Yeah, but Limburger and Stinky Bishop are evil, if you judge them on their smells. :dead:
I do love me some Cheddar though. Yummy! :yes:
Kookicat, you of all people deserve to have any cheese you wish!
