Comments on: The over-participator http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/ All Things Green Bay Packers Fri, 17 May 2013 23:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 56Coop http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6341 Mon, 18 May 2009 21:47:57 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6341 Hell with it, bring him on!!!

]]> By: awhayes http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6338 Mon, 18 May 2009 21:11:22 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6338 Trav – still laughing from your experience.

]]> By: Ron La Canne http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6337 Mon, 18 May 2009 19:52:09 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6337 56, the St Paul Pioneer Press is saying that ole #4 will have surgery and report to camp after 6-8 weeks of rehab. And I was so looking forward to talking about football. Now we’re back to watching a complete basket case make a fool of himself once again.

]]> By: 56Coop http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6336 Mon, 18 May 2009 19:21:41 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6336 Totally off subject here & I’m sure there will be a post shortly but Favre just ain;t gonna let this thing die—

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30811067/

]]> By: Trav http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6333 Sun, 17 May 2009 01:38:42 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6333 Bucky – Sorry, should have been more descriptive. It wasn’t a 1:1 child to parent ratio. There were 4 parents that went to help wrangle, myself included, for the 29 kids in the class. And I remember the same thing from my childhood, it was a rarity when parents came along. The pendulum has definitely swung the other way. Some days, I do think the cat route would have been easier.

]]> By: bucky http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6331 Sat, 16 May 2009 04:24:30 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6331 Ok, all joking aside: it’s been a long time since I went to Henry Clay and Lake Bluff, and I don’t have any kids. But since when are parents going on field trips? I mean, maybe one or two came along to help wrangle the kids when I was young, but all of the parents? Really? And it is not only allowed, but expected? That’s just freaking nuts.

I think my wife and I made the right decision when we determined that the only little feet pattering around our house would belong to the cats.

]]> By: awhayes http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6330 Fri, 15 May 2009 20:34:04 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6330 Nice Bucky, nice. Quality “underparticipator” coinage.

I’d have to say I’m a fleeting-participator – I get really into one idea only to see it fade, then it takes a while to get back into another idea/event. It’s funny though, as I look back at the examples of over-participator-type events I gave in the post, it is quite a sobering list – not sure any of those events involve alcohol except maybe supporting an art museum. So essentially, I think you and I are saying the same thing.

]]> By: Trav http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6329 Fri, 15 May 2009 20:23:48 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6329 Andy – There must be a good backstory to generate your post.

Related…I took a day off recently to help with a 4th grade field trip. I was the only male and the only one who had not attended all the previous field trips. You would have thought I had the plague with how I was shut out of from all the other parent’s and their reindeer games. Interesting dynamic with that group. I guess you either join the “over-participator” group the first day of school and get your name listed in every class newsletter under the “Thank You” section or you’re just not up to snuff.

I know I had a lot more fun on the field trip, even with my exclusion, than I would have had at my desk that day.

]]> By: bucky http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/the-over-participator/#comment-6328 Fri, 15 May 2009 20:18:39 +0000 http://packergeeks.wordpress.com/?p=3128#comment-6328 I think I’d characterize myself as an underparticipator. Unless there’s alcohol involved.

I also think everyone who knows me would agree.

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