Camp Stove

Since there are so many people in this world living in Lala land, I feel it my duty to educate them. At least in a small way.  There's only so much I can do.

Lesson #1 -- If you borrow something from someone, it is YOUR duty to return the borrowed item to the person you borrowed it from.  Apparently in Lala land it is someone else's responsibility to return something you borrowed.

And as a side note -- I don't want to overload the people in Lala land with too much common sense -- but it is also nice, and even expected, when you borrow something that you return it in as good or better shape than when you borrowed it.

It's always good to teach using examples so I will illustrate my point with a real-life scenario.

A certain baby son asked to borrow a camp stove from his father for a camping trip.  The father (most likely reluctantly) agreed. [We all know Baby Son's track record at returning things.] The father even went so far as to spend part of his day making sure the camp stove was in working order and supplying bottles of propane to go with it.

After the camping trip, Baby Son makes his daily call to his parents (most likely to complain about his ex-wife and drag her name through the mud which seems to be his favorite pastime). During the course of the conversation the father tells his baby son that he didn't get his camp stove back.  Instead of taking responsibility for not returning the camp stove to his father in a timely manner, Baby Son immediately blames his ex-wife for not returning it.

Here's where lesson number one comes in. Baby son's ex-wife did not borrow the camp stove. In fact, she was actually doing Baby Son a favor by picking up the camp stove from Baby Son's father and delivering it to him.  She did not have to do that. She was being nice.  (Which I don't know if I could do after the way Baby Son has treated her.)  So what thanks does she get?  Let me tell you.  When Baby Son's father inquired about his camp stove not being returned after the camping trip, Baby Son comes back with a snide remark about the woman who did him a favor. Baby Son's response to his father was, "she didn't bring it back yet?"  As if it's her responsibility.  And if that's not bad enough, he has to throw in, "she probably sold it for money."

Can you believe the gall of Baby Son?  Seriously, I could hardly believe what I was hearing.  First of all, it is not Baby Son's ex-wife's responsibility to return the camp stove that Baby Son borrowed from his father.  It is Baby Son's responsibility.  That's just common sense. Which apparently, Baby Son is lacking.  Then he has the audacity to accuse her of thievery?  That seems to be a quality with which Baby Son is well acquainted, not his ex-wife.  (I'm sure you all remember the story to which I'm referring.)  But to accuse Baby Son's ex-wife of thievery is beyond the pale. It's deplorable.

Baby Son's ex-wife would never sell her father-in-law's camp stove for money. For Baby Son to accuse her of that, even in jest, is despicable, absurd, disgusting, and disgraceful.  If he lived in the real world, he would be ashamed of himself.  But apparently in Lala land that type of behavior is acceptable.

 Here in the real world, people take responsibility for their actions.  If you borrow something, you give it back in a timely manner and in good shape. You don't expect someone else to do it for you. Here in the real world, people don't blame others for their poor choices and poor actions.  Here in the real world, we have rules of society that civilized people follow.  In Lala land, you make up your own rules and blame others when the fault lies squarely on your own shoulders.  In Lala land there are no consequences because you make up your own rules and pretend there is no God. In Lala land you drag other people's good names through the mud to make yourself feel better.

Lala land might seem like a nice place to reside, where there are no consequences.  But mark my word, one day reality will prevail and there will be H to pay.

That's my two cents.