My secret is out. Don’t know what gave it away, but my son now knows that the my entire goal in life, for the past 17 years, has been to make him miserable. It’s been an awful lot of work, not to mention expense, but it all seems to have paid off. I have succeeded! His life is in shambles. He’s utterly miserable. The long nights of staying up with a sick kid, the years of working two jobs and struggling to make sure he had the neccesities to survive have all paid off. Heaven forbid anything should have happened to him before I had the opportunity to make his life a living nightmare.
What did I do to destroy his life forever? I had the audacity to tell him he can’t take MY barely running truck forty miles to go visit his girlfriend tonight. I’m so evil! muahaahaa
I could never master teenaged hyperbole. “You’ve ruined my life! Well, my weekend, anyway! At the very least, my evening! Unless there’s something good on TV! You guys suck! Mostly!”
You know, a lot of parents just don’t master that skill. They try and try, but don’t ever get the hang of it. They always seem to ruin merely a weekend, or a year or two, then all of a sudden they screw up and the kid is happy. Maybe you could give seminars.
You’re lucky CPS isn’t on your doorstep right this instant! Your refusal to provide a vehicle for his disposal might get him placed in foster care and then where will you be, with the state taking care of him! Where will you be then… hmmm?
Mustang Sally
You’d better let that boy go drive
Mustang Sally now, Baby
You better let that young man drive
If you don’t let him go off truckin’
He’ll be wipin’ his weepin’ eyes
You won’t let your son drive an automobile to see the love of his life?
HOW DARE YOU?
The purpose of your existence is to be your son’s care-giver. That role includes vehicle maintenance, and the condition of the truck should not prohibit him from being able to see his woman.
And you have the NERVE to call yourself a mother? I’ll bet you probably expect him to be responsible, and listen to you and his father, and DARE to ask him where he’s going, and set limits. PARENTS!
You must print this thread to give him the next time you ruin his life.
(And if he makes a fuss about that, threaten to show it to everyone in your social circle. Then, if he is still whining, threaten to post it in the halls of his high school (with his name identified).
Or an even more heinous crime - find out what internet message boards he hangs out at and start posting there - making sure everyone knows your his mum
