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[Ronda]

Thought you were on sabbatical Chad? All these multiple ID's are really getting hard to track.

Do not know who "Chad" is, but it ain't me.

[Darthvader]

Do not know who "Chad" is, but it ain't me.

OK Ronduh, whatever you say! Welcome aboard newbie!

[chris v]

This is like watching "Reality TV"-living life in the public eye.

As this goes into the double digits number of pages you may need to introduce something spicy to keep the post count up. Could one of you possibly admit to being a food critic or "working your way through college" as a comcast customer service rep?

Andrea was a customer service rep for Comcast (best tv provider ever)...

[ngilbert]

Andrea was a customer service rep for Comcast (best tv provider ever)...

That's Gold! Now we just gotta get a struggling rapper and the guy who played Screech to move in with you and we can't miss! Let me make some calls. I know some people.

Believe me, now during the writers' strike is the time to act. This stuff writes itself!

Oh, and if you two could do me a favor and hold off on that whole baby decision until we can get the cameras set up, that would fantastic!

Also, it would help the whole gritty dynamic if one of you could develop a drinking problem. Since the little lady may soon be "in the family way" I think it's best that you, as the man, step up to the plate and get working on that now. If you have a problem with it, that's cool. I'll talk to Screech and see if he's game.

This is gonna be great, baby! Is that an Emmy I smell?

[Andrea V]

Andrea was a customer service rep for Comcast (best tv provider ever)...

Want to know something even funnier!! I was a rep for a few months, then I got promoted to Customer service TRAINER! I trained the call center on sales and tech support. I did that for a few years.

[dcmss]

Chris, man-to-man, what is your problem? You got married to someone who seems to be a wonderful woman, wife and mother and has a vision of how she wants all of your lives to be. Do you really think that having another of God's blessings is going to change your life that much from how it already is? Sure, there will be a year or two (out of another 50 or so you have left) where time might be a little tighter and you may have to do less of what you want to do, but then you will have 2 children who love and adore you and your wife, and importantly each other. In the same way you have these activities you share with your son, won't you be able to share them and perhaps even more or different ones with your second? I don't intend to come across as preachy (excuse the pun!), but if you have one child, another is not a sacrifice on your part. If you didn't have any, then I can understand your point of view more.

I think you should have the second baby, children don't need to be raised in a family that makes millions of dollars a year to be happy. You and your wife are already doing the right thing in providing a happy, nurturing environment for your son, so why not let another child benefit from this also?

[Michael Hughes]

I hate Comcast. Service sucks. Never got one bill right. Collect called me after I CANCELLED.

Hell would have to FREEZE over with the Devil playing ping pong with God, Tupac back from the dead, Elvis rocking out with the Beatles live on stage, all while James Dean becomes a tournament driver in Nascar before I would EVER EVER . . . even consider being a comcast subscriber again.

I came into this thread late by the way and my head is spinning. Did anyone ever announce what the 'thing' is and if so point me to the page since its already a 10 page + long topic!!

[Andrea V]

I hate Comcast. Service sucks. Never got one bill right. Collect called me after I CANCELLED.

Hell would have to FREEZE over with the Devil playing ping pong with God, Tupac back from the dead, Elvis rocking out with the Beatles live on stage, all while James Dean becomes a tournament driver in Nascar before I would EVER EVER . . . even consider being a comcast subscriber again.

I came into this thread late by the way and my head is spinning. Did anyone ever announce what the 'thing' is and if so point me to the page since its already a 10 page + long topic!!

a cat....

[Andrea V]

just kidding...



A baby.

[Ronda]

A baby.

A tiny bit of advice: don't wait and time it so that the teenage years and menopause hit at the same time.

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

A tiny bit of advice: don't wait and time it so that the teenage years and menopause hit at the same time.

Good thought, but since menopause comes at different times for different people and lasts varying numbers of years -- this is really hard to do. But a good thought.

[chris v]

Chris, man-to-man, what is your problem? You got married to someone who seems to be a wonderful woman, wife and mother and has a vision of how she wants all of your lives to be. Do you really think that having another of God's blessings is going to change your life that much from how it already is? Sure, there will be a year or two (out of another 50 or so you have left) where time might be a little tighter and you may have to do less of what you want to do, but then you will have 2 children who love and adore you and your wife, and importantly each other. In the same way you have these activities you share with your son, won't you be able to share them and perhaps even more or different ones with your second? I don't intend to come across as preachy (excuse the pun!), but if you have one child, another is not a sacrifice on your part. If you didn't have any, then I can understand your point of view more.

I think you should have the second baby, children don't need to be raised in a family that makes millions of dollars a year to be happy. You and your wife are already doing the right thing in providing a happy, nurturing environment for your son, so why not let another child benefit from this also?

We're just not going to see eye to eye on this especially since I have never had one of gods blessings... I can almost guarantee I don't have 50 years left either, it would be nice, but it's not going to happen.

[Warren G]

We're just not going to see eye to eye on this especially since I have never had one of gods blessings... I can almost guarantee I don't have 50 years left either, it would be nice, but it's not going to happen.

Advice that starts off with "What is your problem?" isn't a good start, and then imposing religion on somebody else WRT their child...?

As for the 50 years, look Chris, all you have to do is get through about 25 more and by then science will have the solution for your next 25. I'm counting on it!

Either that or take up golf and play for 25 years on crowded courses on the weekends and it will seem like 50 years.

[wrabbit]

Just when I think I'm done, I drag myself back here....

I think I read where Chris had become a father right after school? I don't know if that was high school or college, but, many who became parents very early in life, feel they have lost a large part of your youth, in becoming parents. I imagine after realizing that there are still about 9 more years until their current child is grown, then throwing another 9 more years on after that, just doesn't sound too good to him. This is providing that at age 18, the children will be gone, but that's not very likely.

Today, children are living at home until into their mid twenties....and sometimes longer. Grown children have often had to move back home, due to divorce or lack of employment. The truth is, once a parent, always a parent. Because no matter how old your child is, you are the parent and you will help them, whenever they need it, even if it means putting off your own happiness. I know of parents who have wanted to travel the world, but have not been able to, due to the needs of their grown children. Poor folks seem to have to help one of them or the other, all the time. They have four children, and they seem to take turns, getting into binds. It could well be that Chris and his wife will have to raise their grandchildren...who knows?

Women, being mostly into the material mode, really don't understand sometimes, how the man feels, about having babies. She focuses on the cute way babies behave and how much fun they are, plus the family aspect....he focuses on the finances, the obligations and how it will effect him being able to retire early, or at all. This is normal thinking and has been so for hundreds of years. Women have always wanted babies and men have not so much.

I think to depend on science to come up with some sort of miracle to be able to live longer, is foolish. The fact is, nobody can know when they will die. I could get up in the morning and die in a car accident, as I'm driving to work. Nobody is promised a tomorrow.

I think it's fair to say that being a parent is a lifetime thing, with no end. Too often I see the parents, raising their grandchildren, these days. I read where parents are raising their grandchildren more today, that ever before in history!

Yes, family is important and can be a beautiful thing, but it can also be a lot of sacrificing, without end. One can not turn off parenting when the child turns 18.

[Ronda]

One can not turn off parenting when the child turns 18.

Well, who would want to?

They are lifelong loves as well as lifelong obligations, after all.

Of course nobody wants it to happen, but they could end up taking care of you in your old age. It does happen that way sometimes.