"Blair P. Houghton" > wrote

> Nancy Young > wrote:
>>Yes, any number of times. Do you know the story of Paula Deen
>>and her kids? And if you're referring to those little jokey pieces
>>they do about them slacking off, that's a show. I've heard nothing
>>other than they both work very hard at the restaurant.
>>
>>Are they mama's boys? Perhaps. Whatever that means.
>>Spoiled? No. I believe you are barking up the wrong tree on
>>this.
>
> Maybe I'm just seeing their annoying qualities as
> the result of being spoiled. Whatever their cause,
> they're annoying. They look like they're spoiled.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course.

> I know of Paula Deen's story what is written on
> the Internet. It's curiously monolithic in form, and
> light on details. She got divorced, started a lunch-bag
> "catering" business, and made her sons deliver the food

Made her sons hawk the food. Not deliver, sell. Pound
the pavement.

> because she was agoraphobic. We don't know what their
> economic conditions were before the divorce; it doesn't
> say why she started the business - because she was broke or
> because she was bored or because she was megalomaniacally
> entrepreneurial...

She couldn't work and she needed the money.

> Is there more? And who's saying they work hard at the
> restaurant? Them? Her? Their publicist?

Different places where I've heard of her restaurant, it's mentioned
about her sons always being there. If nothing else, how do you
suppose she opened restaurants all by herself without their help?
Not likely.

You seem like you want to believe they are spoiled, that's okay.
That's your right even though I see the opposite and have never
heard anything to change my mind.

nancy