Does "Complete BS" mean this will be the last and final, all-inclusive installment of BS? *G* Because if so I want to be sure to get my item in before it's too late-- the Subliminal Mind Control Pillow theory. You see our college-age daughter moved out recently while we were asleep, although leaving piles of mess behind, because we are so controlling.

Yes, it's true, we gave her free use of a car for daily use at all hours, paid the insurance, gas, so forth... We provided free room and board on short notice, when her announced plan fell through to live elswewhere, self-supporting this semester (her choice, not our expectation either way)... we set no curfew, asked no questions about where she was going, cast no aspersions on her friends... gave her the easy household chores she chose, and then did them for her when her class load was too heavy to leave time to do them... paid the unpaid balance from last year's college costs when she "forgot" that quitting her work-study job on campus last year would leave her $1200 short, after we were already picking up about half the cost of the total bill.... paid her book fees this year and once again underwrote a large portion of the tuition fees.... asked her over and over and over if she had calculated ALL fees, she said she had, we budgeted accordingly, then she was $80 short due to one forgotten fee, and it was ALL OUR FAULT the money was gone. Yes, we bought groceries, I am ashamed to confess!

Our crime in Mind Control? We asked two things. When she wanted to change schools (and our payments) we asked her to plan the transition soundly, and twice I asked her-- this was my own crime-- if she knew whether she would be with us for supper, or if we should work around her and do our own thing.

Our conclusion was that she must have figure out that the whole time she had been living under our roof, she had been (gasp!) under the influence of the evil Subliminal Mind Control Pillow we had put in her room. Yes, we must have been silently brainwashing her.

It is so much the fashion in today's world of abused individuals that in a backlash against the abuse, we think we see control freaks lurking under every sleeping head. As if people can actually be controlled that easily! Yes, this is the popular reaction when one is having trouble thinking for oneself-- someone must be trying to conTROL us!

Get YOUR Subliminal Mind Control Pillow today, parents, and use it right away, and you too can be totally responsible for every imagined misery your children wish to blame you for!

People who know us and how relaxedly we raised our kids have been laughing their asses off as we talk about that pillow. I think I should make a few to auction off.

~Susan