• droppedonherhead
      • hello Vickie Mendenhall
      • Username: droppedonherhead
      • In response to: "Who are you?" Well, I teach kidlets in a small school in West Virginia. I just started blogging, which makes my nature for complaining take an art form. And why the hell is my head about cut off in this picture?
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    • When Kids Should Get Cell Phones

      • Plinky asked me, "At what age do you think it's appropriate for children to get cell phones?"


        Telephone

        I am sure I am jealous, but I never got to carry around a phone when I was a child. Sure, it would have been a bit clunky, and I wouldn't be able to go too far because of the cord and all, but it would have been fun. Well, no, wait. No, it wouldn't. It was too much fun hearing my mother yelling for me in the neighborhood to come home for dinner. What fun would it be to just hear my phone ringing. Or I'd get a text, "Dinner time."
        Ok, I got off topic. As a fourth grade teacher, I would say that a child should be able to own their own cell phone no earlier than 5th grade.
        Oh hell, I don't know.

      • answered by droppedonherhead on 01/13/2012
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    • Oh, Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz

      • Mercedes

        I didn't know it at the time, mainly because teen-agers are not of this world, but when I was 16, I had to take my dad's car when my mom just wasn't feeling like letting me use hers. My dad had a grey 1972 Mercedes, and I thought it was the ugliest thing I had ever seen. The dashboard was ugly and well, I didn't feel pretty driving it. I would cry when my mom would tell me, "Take your dad's car tonight." I would moan and complain, to no avail.I didn't appreciate the fact that a 16 year old girl driving a Mercedes Benz in 1972 was pretty cool.

      • answered by droppedonherhead on 01/08/2012
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    • If I Were a Teacher

      • Plinky asked me, "If you were a professor, what subject would you teach?"


        Revolutionary War Living History Day

        Well, right now I teach fourth grade, so I am in the profession. But, if I was a professor, I would teach United States History. I love the Revolutionary War period and also anything about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

      • answered by droppedonherhead on 03/09/2011
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    • An Alternate Ending

      • Plinky asked me, "Write an alternate ending to a movie"


        Sommersby, starring Richard Gere and Jody Foster, disturbed me for a week after watching the movie. I cried for hours after the ending. It was, besides Sophie's Choice, the saddest movie I have ever seen.

        I would surely change the ending to where she races in on a horse and cuts him down from the noose right before he is hung, and they ride off into the sunset together. That's what I would do.

      • answered by droppedonherhead on 02/19/2011
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    • My Sense of Humor

      • Plinky asked me, "Describe your sense of humor."


        People laughing at a dinner

        "The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." ~Shirley MacLaine~

        I was just recently told that I have a weird sense of humor. Well, I think I appreciate humor across all genres.I will laugh at Monty Python and really laugh at Bob Newhart. I like to read funny blogs and I think I write funny blogs, mostly making fun of my family. Dysfunctional families are quite funny.

        I will be the first to admit that I will laugh if you fall in front of me. And, I'm sorry to say, even found humor at my father's funeral, as the Grand Poobah's of a men's group he belonged to had some ceremony at the gravesite which made me feel like I was at a meeting of the Water Buffalo's on the Flintstones. Cracked me up. So, I guess if I laugh at my dad's funeral, I would probably laugh anywhere. Even at the dentist..which pissed him off.

      • answered by droppedonherhead on 02/15/2011
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