Well, I got 15 more days added to my 45-day leave! Everyone built up LOTS of extra leave time since we couldn't take 30 days' worth during our year's tour-of-duty. With Raquel in the front seat and Baby Ivan in the back seat bassinette surrounded by lots of "stuff," I hunkered down in my VW's cockpit for about the sixth of many married-to-the-military, cross-country drives. My six-year-old, German-import, 4-banger did not have the pickup of the occasional AF truck I drove for off-duty volunteer work in Vietnam. Later, this little VW was to slow waaay down into 2nd & 1st gears as we climbed the long, upgrades into the back door of California -- Mono Lake was still a cold, high, isolated entry into the Yosemite descent. No border checks, either! Granted, I might have been thinking a little like I was still in Southeast Asia.
Why THAT route? Well, we didn't have the Internet in those days so I couldn't research the entry rules for the State of California like now. In addition to our first suitcases ever packed together & lots of 1970-era disposable diapers, we had the VW packed with many, unopened liter bottles (only $2.40 each) of Bacardi passed from Mexico into Texas over the previous 50 days! We needn't have worried -- California was not going to add CA tax onto the 50-cent Texas stamp already paid for. California, the land of fruit & nuts, only wanted to check their borders to prevent the smuggling of fresh fruit from without to within. Hell, we were only "rum-runners" to them. (Not really, but I had heard sheriffs in the "dry" counties of TX and GA used to arrest people driving through for "bootlegging" doing the same thing! I didn't know about California and I didn't want any bottles broken on the spot of an arrest!)
posted by Richard A @ 6:59 AM
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In fact, In being in social work so long, I'm sure you are lying about being a counselor, b/c no good counselor would do things you do,, that would just be unethical.. so I think you are just full of shit about being a counselor. I'm calling you on that.
Well, Julie, I'm sorry that we have such animosity building up -- especially since I don't know what you are specifically talking about. You probably didn't like my take on feminism if u r 1. Send me an eMail with specifics if you want to do more than just rant and ventilate. (I see I have some to check yet -- maybe you have been more constructive with them.)
You know, just having BEEN in therapy doesn't qualify you AS a therapist! But I believe you could be a social worker -- compared with psychologists, they tend to be more self-serving and politically manipulative. Not wanting to deal with issues directly, like I do -- you are correct that I have many issues with the ways I have been treated. Especially by a woman who used to think she wanted to be a social worker, too -- it was just self-serving talk & bravado on her part, though. I hope you are more successful.
But Blogs ARE perfect for issues, aren't they? That's also why I allow you to comment, too.
To Other Readers: I went back to check my post at Julie's blog & it leads me to think she is "catastrophizing" here. Feel free to see for yourselves! My words, themselves, still don't seem "mean & out of line." Maybe they just touched a nerve. (Understandable -- we have opposing views.)
I STILL find it ironic that Julie doesn't see the inconsistency between her supporting aborting a human baby while opposing deer hunting (a traditional method of providing a unique food which also prevents deer starvation due to overpopulation).
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