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The Mayor of Moleterd
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I'm getting a Vasectomy next week!!
August 18, 2011 at
11:13 AM
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Limited OT, please.
Okay.......I'm getting snipped.
My GF's okay with it, but I'm kinda concerned how I break it to my little rich and cranky Grammy that the line will now end with me. I'm 40 and she still thinks any minute I'm going to get married and produce an heir. Hate to tell her but no little future Jon Boy nor Angus will ever appear in this lifetime. My sister has two children ( one boy and one girl ) but because they don't have the family surname, my Grandmother pretty much thinks they don't really count. She thinks we're all blue bloods and therefore "special" and already has big plans for my future MALE offspring. ( baby girls would be pampered but basically ignored, of course ).
Now isn't that special?
Any ideas how I can tell my Grandmother ( after the surgery, of course, as she'll try to put a stop to it if she knows ahead of time ) without endangering my life, my peace, and of course, despite my lame protestations of not wanting it, my eventual huge inheritance? I wouldn't put it past her to have me committed, pay the doctor off, or her feign a stroke or heart attack to stop me, so I prefer to tell her when it's a done deal.
Also, has anybody here had a vasectomy and could maybe give me some assurance that it's not really all that painful or dangerous and that ( big ) Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs will all still work correctly?
Discuss.
Okay.......I'm getting snipped.
My GF's okay with it, but I'm kinda concerned how I break it to my little rich and cranky Grammy that the line will now end with me. I'm 40 and she still thinks any minute I'm going to get married and produce an heir. Hate to tell her but no little future Jon Boy nor Angus will ever appear in this lifetime. My sister has two children ( one boy and one girl ) but because they don't have the family surname, my Grandmother pretty much thinks they don't really count. She thinks we're all blue bloods and therefore "special" and already has big plans for my future MALE offspring. ( baby girls would be pampered but basically ignored, of course ).
Now isn't that special?
Any ideas how I can tell my Grandmother ( after the surgery, of course, as she'll try to put a stop to it if she knows ahead of time ) without endangering my life, my peace, and of course, despite my lame protestations of not wanting it, my eventual huge inheritance? I wouldn't put it past her to have me committed, pay the doctor off, or her feign a stroke or heart attack to stop me, so I prefer to tell her when it's a done deal.
Also, has anybody here had a vasectomy and could maybe give me some assurance that it's not really all that painful or dangerous and that ( big ) Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs will all still work correctly?
Discuss.
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You'd rather have your wife undergo major surgery instead?
Either way, it's more invasive for a female and can have more complications. I know that vasectomies should be considered permanent, but you can also attempt to reverse them. Whether or not it actually works is completely different.
You'd rather have your wife undergo major surgery instead?
Wow! You just took my one reply to someone else's suggestion that I "might" harbor some resentment towards my GM and be trying to punish her and just ran with it, didn't you?? Case closed, hum? I guess you failed to read the whole thread where I very clearly stated, when someone asked me, my reasons for not wanting children, which was the condition of the world we live in now combined with fear of the unknown in raising a child without something bad happening to them. I thought it was pretty level headed of me to even be willing to consider the posters question about my GM and not resent it, but instead reply to it in a reasonable way about my feelings towards my GM and actually examine them instead of just flying off the handle with the poster and not be willing to question my own motives fully.
And if there is anyone on this site who never had any family issues whatever, then lucky them. I think everyone does at some time or other. My Grandmother loves me, just in her own way, and as long as she's the boss of everybody concerning everything. If that makes ME the bad guy to you, then you have issues of your own not related to family, but more related to being unable to see another point of view, another person's sorrows and concerns, other than your own.
As for my not being mature enough ( and according to you never will be ) to have children, I hold a Masters degree in Engineering and a lesser degree in IT. I've worked my whole life since college and have never been out of work for more than two weeks until now and this is only because I'm on LOA. I own my own home ( worth more than 1.8 million at last checking ) OUTRIGHT with no mortgage at all, own two vehicles without leins or payments required on them, and have enough money in the bank to live well on for more than 10 years without working now if I don't want to go back. I have no criminal record whatever and have never had one. I don't use credit cards and I have only one, kept only for emergencies. I have an extremely favorable credit rating and don't owe anyone or any company or bank a dime. I was named Godftather to three children not even related to me and am trusted as an uncle to my sister's two children, without question. I give more than $10,000 a year to charity and volunteer for two organizations with my time. I have voted in every election since I was old enough to register. I don't use drugs, nor abuse alcohol, nor am I promiscuous, and I treat women with respect. If all those things makes me still too immature, in your opinion, to have children then I don't know what does.
Sorry, but you may be a nice guy in general, but you're not really being fair.
I was only responding to what you posted. You bought up your issues with your grandmother. And apparently you do have issues with your grandmother, otherwise why would you have bought up the subject?
I do think it is odd that someone who lives in a $1.8 million dollar home outright, gives to charity, volunteers for two organizations and is as wonderful and successful as you say you are, would have the time to post here, or the need to visit a website that is devoted to saving money.
And where exactly is Moleterd, SC? If they have million dollar homes, I just might want to retire there!
BTW, having a college education doesn't mean you are smart, have common sense or even a decent person. I see people, all the time, with college degrees who can't dress properly for a interview or spell simple words like 'liens'. An education is not nearly as important as what you do with your education. Which is one reason employers value experience over education.
One more thing, my degree is in psychology, not psychiatry and I hold a master's degree.
Or maybe you don't in your case, I don't know.
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Or maybe you don't in your case, I don't know.
There are a number of people here that have a large income. But they're so cheap and stingy, they still don't want to overpay for anything just like those of us that are broke and NEED to save money.
Either way, it's more invasive for a female and can have more complications. I know that vasectomies should be considered permanent, but you can also attempt to reverse them. Whether or not it actually works is completely different.
There are a number of people here that have a large income. But they're so cheap and stingy, they still don't want to overpay for anything just like those of us that are broke and NEED to save money.
I'm talking about looking at it from a logical standpoint. Just look at the facts - in this particular issue, getting a vasectomy is much less risk than a tubal ligation. The recovery time is quicker, and it's not MAJOR surgery.
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I'm talking about looking at it from a logical standpoint. Just look at the facts - in this particular issue, getting a vasectomy is much less risk than a tubal ligation. The recovery time is quicker, and it's not MAJOR surgery.
All this logic talk is why we have such a high divorce rate in this country. Logic has nothing to do with any of it. Marriage is not about logic, it's about partnership. We are both equal. I would never ask her to do it and she would never ask me to do it.