oh god, i can see trouble on the horizon, a number of different fronts, i can feel it coming, some i'm sure i can't see but i feel it out there.
so my 14 year old is a young man now, too early for a drivers license yet, but not by much. we buy him a used bike from a coworker whose kid drives now because it was a fraction price of new and "they're good dogs brent". i tell her we are going up to walmart to get some oil and a lock and things. she turns to my son and says "oh, gonna go pimp your new ride huh?" i'm thinking please don't get him started, this is my coworker. he says to her: "i especially like this post here, it is perfect for racking my nuts, and these broken wires will tickle my balls on the way". **** jacob! wtf? (i swear to god i tried to raise him better than this). she baited him and he bit, she just says "be careful you might need them later". so he pays her and loads the bike up in the pickup. well, we got a killer bike for $40 and i'm just going to pretend that conversation never happened.
i dropped him off at the park last evening to meet his friends after we went shopping, he said hey let's swing by and see if they are still there. 2 boys and 3 girls are just leaving, but when he gets out of the pickup the girls go "jacob!" and run over. one says "oh, xxxxxxxx's here", it is a variation of our last name, they have a nickname for him! then they all decide to hang out for a bit and i tell him what time to walk home. well he texts me and asks for more time and i tell him no, head home. he says ok. then a half hour later he is not home, so i'm really ticked now because he broke a deal and hung out anyways and played me. so we had a good lively conversation about trust and freedom when he got home.
but that nickname sticks in my head, so today i ask him what are your friend's names? one is daphne, another is megan, and he don't know or won't say the other girl's name. i ask so what did they call you? he says it is just a name, it changes all the time, they call me lots of things. oh crap. i ask "what are you doing with those girls"? he looks at me and says "dad, i can take a girl that's a 5 and make her smile like a 10". oh ****, this is big trouble. i don't even know what to say to him. i just shake my head and walk away, this is trouble, i can feel it coming.
little s.o.b. gots a silver tongue. i'm not ready to be a grandpa.
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