TheBanyanTree: Seriously, son...

[David Rubin]

A wise human once wrote that the period of adolescence is Nature's way
of making it easier to cut the apron strings.  ;-)

Dave - father of a 28-year-old female child



On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Sachet <sachet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am, with great anticipation, and oft times, a tremendous amount of
> FRUSTRATION, looking forward to the day that my beloved son, *gets it*.
>
> Last night, as he's doing his *own* laundry (score one for Mean~Mom) he
> wanted me to set the dial for him. I politely declined pointing out that
> when we moved into this house, with the washer & dryer already in place,
> I had to figure it all out and I know that's he's smart enough to do the
> same. (Sneaky parental psychology at it's best. <g>) Plus, I'd already
> offered to show him how to do it a few times before, but he was always "too
> busy". Pffffft.
>
> And sure enough, he figured it out.
>
> Then....he wants me to pour in the detergent. <eyes rolling>
>
> Like...seriously dude... I'm, gonna do that?!?!
>
> I did explain how full to fill the lid, since reading the instructions
> seemed to be beyond this helpless version of my usually,
> obnoxiously-ever-so-independent son.
>
> As he's pouring in the detergent he looks at me and asks, with a
> disdainful curl to his lip, if it's the cheap stuff.
>
> Excuse
> me????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>
> At that point I wanted to thwap him up side his oblivious teen/man head
> and yell...."Are you paying for it!?!?!?? Are you chipping in for the
> water OR the electricity to run the washing machine that you are using
> for FREE?!?!?
>
> But I didn't.
>
> I calmly said no. And walked away.
>
> In reality, I REALLY don't care what laundry detergent we use. Some
> weeks it's Tide, other's it's Purex....Jim knows it truly doesn't matter
> to me. Clean is clean and they all seem to work the same for our family.
> YMMV
>
> But dammit all anyway, if I'm getting something for-freakin'-free, I
> sure nuff don't have the utter audacity to question whether it suits my
> uppity-standards or not.
>
> growlingly yours....
>
>
> ...me <g>
>