Hello all,
Just found this site/thread... I'm still grinning... Some of this is really entertaining! Wish I'd known then!!!
Man, Caroline Wolf - truly a tragic human being. At the time, I remember feeling so small (and yet so fat- despite the fact that she was much heavier than have been at my fattest) in her presence. She definitely had the ability to make me feel worthless, dirty (not in a good way) and stupid... Funny, until I read this post, I thought it was only me, I always felt so weak for allowing her to affect me that way. Looking back, I have to just laugh at her (sometimes I have to try pretty hard though). I remember so clearly this one rap shortly after I arrived when she was on my case about who knows what... Halfway through her berating she somehow got onto the subject of what music I liked 'before'... I said "Led Zeppelin". Whatever, who cared one way or another? Wow, she went OFF! Something to the effect of "OH! Really? Well, if your such a Led Zeppelin fan, what was the name of their band before it was L.Z.?" Okay, pause for backround: I was a sixteen year old girl, not particularly musicly inclined, I love (always have) music but, not interested in the lineage per se, or the fame of it... I just liked music. Obviously, therefore, I had no idea. So of course, she filled me in (The Yardbirds... I'll never forget that now :wink: ) and then spent the rest of the rap ramming it down my throat that I wasn't a true L.Z. fan if I didn't know their entire history... (oy!)
From the 16 years later (-ish) point of view - that's beyond absurd!! For so many reasons...
Hindsight... Anyone who engages in (and took/takes so much pleasure in) the berating, belittling (sp?) and abusing of children must feel so awful about themselves to need that pathetic 'lift', I can't even imagine. Still hard to 'pity' her but, I'd rather be me than her any day of the week... Truly, TRULY, a tragic, pathetic woman.
-'90 - (90 something...) ERH