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WCDT Strips 3801-3805 (6-10 August 2018)
MrNumbers:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 07 Aug 2018, 01:51 ---Granted, it's been a while since I spent much time around kids, but that sounds like something a six-year-old would do, not an otherwise bright (?) teenager.
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Some kids get dumber as they get older. Sam is one of those because she's getting more confident while staying just as curious. Caution is learned by doing stupid things and getting punished for them. Especially dumb teenagers result from a short lifetime of stupidity without consequence.
You start life with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The goal is to try to fill the bag of experience before the bag of luck runs out.
Thrillho:
I highlighted Faye for a reason.
I have worked for over seven years with teenagers older than Sam and I can assure you that people much 'maturer' than her have made decisions this poor and worse no matter how much warning is given.
Bad Superman:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 07 Aug 2018, 02:11 ---You start life with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The goal is to try to fill the bag of experience before the bag of luck runs out.
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I will totally steal this.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 07 Aug 2018, 02:11 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 07 Aug 2018, 01:51 ---Granted, it's been a while since I spent much time around kids, but that sounds like something a six-year-old would do, not an otherwise bright (?) teenager.
--- End quote ---
Some kids get dumber as they get older. Sam is one of those because she's getting more confident while staying just as curious. Caution is learned by doing stupid things and getting punished for them. Especially dumb teenagers result from a short lifetime of stupidity without consequence.
You start life with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The goal is to try to fill the bag of experience before the bag of luck runs out.
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...I mean, I guess? I just expected her to be smarter than this, for some reason. That's a tool designed to destroy materials much tougher than squishy human flesh. That needs to command respect. My father told me repeatedly, over and over, how dangerous power tools are since I was a very small kid (granted, I was NOT left unsupervised with those) and that's stuck so deep in my subsconscious that it seems more obvious than breathing, even though I never had even a minor accident involving any of those tools. And even though I don't really use power tools (I don't have a job or any hobbies that require those).
Different life experience, I guess, or I was simply a singularly boring and overly cautious kid/teenager. Come to think of it, I didn't use to get hurt all that much when I was a kid, while my older brother used to always fall off something, cut something, break a limb or whatever. And he wasn't dumb or anything. He just... did a lot of stuff that invited accidents.
cybersmurf:
Sam gets frigging sword fighting classes. You might expect her to be aware of the dangers of ... tools, not even powered ones.
But still, technically, she has all her fingers. Nobody said anything about missing fingernails. And think about the crap her classmates will give her for losing a fingernail to a power tool. Yes, kids are that cruel.
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