<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438883" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Little Tommy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sting for new revenue, <br>Has affected...<br>Those chores that smothered 'children' do.<br>For promised cash payments! <br>And eliminate those 'I-owe-yous'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In days of old...<br>Children did what they were told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No payment did I get, <br>For washing dishes as expected.<br>Or taking out the garbage, <br>On a daily basis.<br>My parents would dare us, <br>To expose unhappy long faces.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Picking up my clothes, <br>From the floor was unheard of.<br>Or chosing to ignore, <br>What I knew should be done...<br>Invited a quick whipping, <br>By a switch I picked.<br>Stripped of leaves...<br>Before that whipping begun! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today kids ask parents for overdrafts! <br>And then are billed for fees...<br>To ensure they accomplish tasks.<br>To motivate good scores, <br>On school tests they barely pass! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even if C's or D's are all they receive...<br>A grace period is extended.<br>To relieve them from 'pressures'<br>As school counselors recommend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those children creative with fresh excuses...<br>Are threatened to have taken from them, <br>Their car keys and other amenities...<br>As a punishment inflicted.<br>For a thirty day period that ends after ten.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And parents become weakened, <br>When these spoil brats squeal...<br>'I wish I was never born! <br>A neglected orphan...<br>A refugee is how I feel! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the caving in begins! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'...but honey, <br>We can not continue throwing Little Tommy out of the house! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Little Tommy is 40 years old.<br>Has had two jobs in three months.<br>Hasn't paid rent here in ten years! <br>And...<br>We pay his car note.<br>Plus money from us he has been 'loaned'! ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'...but, dear...<br>Be reasonable.<br>You know how difficult it is for these kids to stand on their feet.<br>Especially the way the times are today.<br>Do you want your son living in the streets? <br>And beating the cold pavement, <br>With no place to sleep? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~It will be a miracle just to see him get up off his ass.<br>In 'our' lifetime.<br>And maybe we can get that path repaved...<br>From the couch to the refrigerator! <br>Or a show of gratitude.<br>That is all I ask! <br>At least say 'thank you'.<br>Has he offered that? ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=438883" data-title="Little Tommy de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="A sting for new revenue, Has affected... Those chores that smothered 'children' do. For promised cash payments! And eliminate those 'I-owe-yous'. In days of old... Children did what they were told. No payment did I get, For washing dishes as ..."></div> </div> </div>

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