You might be a Goody-Two-Shoes if you:

[Sequoia]

1) Wear a US Flag pin on your collar even if it clashes

2) Always agree with the boss but talk behind his back

3) Volunteer for everything then complain how you never get any rest.

4) Act like you care for the downtrodden but won't give a dime to a homelss person on the street who might ask for some spare change.

5) Decorate your house in red, white and blue with flags all around, and pratically have an orgasm on the 4th of July because "it's our nation's birthday"

6) Always go to church just to be seen

7) Don't drink because people who do act stupid

8) Cut your hair like guys did in 1957 even though you're not even 30 yet.

9) Yell at subordinates with disrespect and think you're the big man and no one can challenge you.


I actually know someone like this. What else can you add.

[Momgonepostal]

1. You avoid people who use "bad" language

Actually #3 is maybe for some a goody goody issue, but I know someone who does that because she thinks she really does want to help everyone, but when it gets down to it, just doesn't have the time or the energy to do it all. Either way, it's dysfunctional, but in the case of the person I know, the problem is an inability to say "no."

[xmas74]

2. Number 3

3) Volunteer for everything then complain how you never get any rest.

I do this. Why? Because I get the calls from school and various activities for my daughter stating that they can't do suchandsuch w/o more parent volunteers. One of the big ones is class parties. Every party they've had has been in danger of being cancelled w/o another volunteer and most of the parents refuse to have anything to do w/ them, pushing them off onto another parent instead.

I'd love to get a break from even one event but I don't want my daughter disappointed if something is cancelled because a bunch of lazy asses refuse to help out. (And I'm not talking about those who cannot get the time off of work-I understand that. I'm talking about those who are at home all day, know about something like this months in advance and refuse to lift a finger to even buy some cupcakes at the local grocery store. The working parents will usually volunteer to send food at least and drop it off at my house or the other room mother's home. )

[Sequoia]

3. I totally agree with volunteering but when you do it and

complain about it, and say crap like, "Why don't these people get a job"...sort of thing. Well, that's just being mean.

[xmas74]

4. Now that's different.

I'd never do something like that. When I volunteer time in food pantries and in shelters I do so because I know I'm helping someone and it makes me feel good to be able to help, even in the smallest way. And I bring my daughter along so that she learns the joy of volunteerism at an early age and so that she learns to appreciate what she has.

My volunteer complaints are always about parents dumping crap off onto other parents. These are the same parents who bitched last year when we had to cancel a carnival because of lack of volunteers, yet didn't step up to help out. (All we needed were five more volunteers and we had entire families of the regular volunteers helping out.)

[Mz Pip]

12. I was like this

when my kids were little. I'd go out of my way to help out because so few other parents would. Driving on field trips, making cupcakes for events, working in the Little League snack shack.

I wouldn't chaperone dances though. My kids would have killed me if I showed up at one of those.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[raccoon]

5. I wouldn't consider someone who does # 9

"9) Yell at subordinates with disrespect and think you're the big man and no one can challenge you."

a goody two-shoes. I'd consider them an insecure jerk.

[Sequoia]

6. Thanks. You hit the nail on the head with that one!

[progmom]

7. i think you mis-titled your post

More like "you might be a jerk if..." (though #3 is exempt from that)

[Sequoia]

9. Heh, heh...I stand corrected.

[hfojvt]

11. you must think that people who try to be good

are just officious hypocrites.

I cannot figure out the "two shoes" part. Do bad people have more shoes or less? Is Shoeless Joe Jackson their role model or Imelda Marcos?

[Sequoia]

13. Well, since you asked:

Dear Cecil:

We all know that grown-up liberals are sometimes called "do-gooders," a rather self-explanatory term. However, that same do-gooder at a younger age might have been called a "goody-two-shoes." Could you sort through the semantic thicket and tell us just where that term came from? --J.B., Dallas

Dear J.:

"Little Goody Two-Shoes" was the heroine of a children's story of the same title, first published in 1765 and often attributed to that favorite of English graduate students everywhere, Oliver Goldsmith. The story, such as it is, concerns a poor waif who has somehow managed to make it through life with only one shoe. Finally rewarded with another, she scampers over hill and dale pointing at her feet and crying "Two shoes! Two shoes!" in so cloying a manner that her name has lived through the ages as a symbol of puerility. "Goody" is a contraction of "Goodwife," a form of address roughly equivalent to our "Mrs.," and now archaic. The phrase now refers to a self-righteous, smugly virtuous person.



--CECIL ADAMS

[One_Life_To_Give]

8. Don't Drink, Don't Smoke

What do you do

[Sequoia]

10. It's okay not to drink, but

It's saying that you "don't do it because people who drink are stupid," and you're afraid you'll be stupid and everyone will laugh at you.

[LNM]

14. Take a trip to Amsterdam and don't smoke any dope.

:smoke: