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Yesterday I had to go to work. Son however, is finished with his Regents exams and finals and so, son is in the sleep til noon-pad around in boxers and play video games all day mode. Daughter does not really have to go to school since she graduated Friday, but there IS school all week and so, being a teachers daughter and all, she is going. That good daughter. That bad son. Ok, ok, just kidding. So anyway, Sunday night I say to son, Ok, so make sure you do the laundry. And pick the package up from the post office. I think I hear him utter some kind of grumbly acknowledgement. So I say, Did you hear me? Nothing. Hello? Son? Hello? I heard you, he says not really even breaking stare with the video game he is drowning in. I am going to do the laundry. He says. Really I just want to go over and snap that stupid controller thing out of his hot little hands and throw it into the hallway. But I dont. Neighbors and all, you know. Bad PR for a teacher. SON! You are not listening! I said you need to pick the package up from the post office! Now I feel like jumping up and down and screaming, You are wasting my time!! You are grounded forever! To the dungeon! NOW Sigh. But I dont do that either. I just go to bed and leave a reminder note for the morning. I am thinking: This is how they get you. They just make you have to say it so many times that you eventually give up and do it yourself while they happily play video games. In the morning at work I get a text from son, Mom, I dont know how to do this post office thing. You have to do it. I am a MINOR. A MINOR? A MINOR? I am smack in the middle of my teaching day. But I am in the closet texting and laughing my ass off. I text him back: You know son, you really cannot pick and choose when you are going to play the I AM A MINOR card. But now that youve played it, its mine to use as I see fit. Have a lovely day. He does not text back. I know he is plotting his next move. But I have the MINOR card now. Heh.
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