When I travel, my family picks me up from the airport. I’m usually tired and cranky, and I just want to get home at the end of a long weekend, so this courtesy is appreciated. I’ve also discovered that my kids’ judgement about what they should tell me goes right out the window when I am gone. They want to tattle, and tattle they do. At this point in my life I stay quiet and just listen, lest a sarcastic comment stem the flow of information and bring them to their senses. So as I approach the car, I see them bouncing around in excitement with ALL THE THINGS they need to tell me. I know just how SDad feels, since once I got a ticket when the Skids were in the car. I had barely arrived home and stopped the car before they’d thrown themselves out and were racing for the door, tripping each other in their haste to inform dad that MOM GOT A TICKET. So, this past weekend I was picked up from the airport. Within two minutes the tattling began and I learned the following key facts (among others) from Nick: Christine can make the “top gear sound”. Dad got on a freeway on-ramp at 90 miles per hour Before asking my son what the “Top Gear Sound” might be, I had a thought. It probably makes as much sense for me to ask that question as it makes to ask your teenaged son alone with a girl exactly what they were doing. Possibly best not to ask, lest they answer. And these types of disclosures from my kids, taken as a whole, are exactly why I need to limit my travel. Because it appears that when the Estrogen Fairy stops sprinkling her molecules around the home then the testosterone crew runs a mock. I find this ironic, since for years it has been well understood that I should not be left unsupervised for more than a day at at time. This is likely due to some lapses of judgement that I have shown on occasion. Those “It seemed like a good idea at the time” moments. Yet here we are discovering that four days of unsupervised freedom led to my car exploring her Superpowers. Apparently the supervision issue goes both ways. In SDad’s defense, he was able to provide a reasonable defense for entering the freeway at warp speed. But he had nothing to say about the “top gear sound”. No defense at all. And Ive seen the show. I have a damned good idea. Yes, the Estrogen fairy needs to spend more time at home.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 23:40:30 +0000
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