Friday, January 13, 2006

Teenagers AARRRGGHHH!!!

I have decided the only reason teenagers are put on this earth is to drive their parents insane. Here's an example:

Today, being the nice, caring mother I should be, I called my teenage son who is home sick today with his little brother who is also sick. It was eleven a.m. and I was about to take my lunch. Here is our conversation:

He was asleep and answered groggily, "What?"
Me: "What would you like me to get you for lunch?"
Teenage Son: "I dunno, nothin."
Me: "Do you want Taco Bell." (His absolute favorite resteraunt that he would eat four times daily if I let him).
Teenage Son: "Nah, nothin."
Me: "What would your brother like?" (I knew the answer but asked anyway for the heck of it)
Teenage Son: "McDonald's."
Me: "Do you want something from McDonald's?"
Teenage Son: "Nah, nothin."
Me: "I could get you a fruit salad..." (Except for the Taco Bell he's a health nut).
Teenage Son: "I don't want nothin."

We hung up and I leave work to stop at an atm and get money and then get them some lunch. He calls me back in the middle of this and we have basically the same conversation. I go ahead and get him the fruit salad anyway and go home. I put it in his room where he is playing with his brother. I ask him again if he's sure he doesn't want me to get him anything else and he says no. Ordinarily I would not go to this much trouble but he is sick. I leave and go through and get my lunch to take back to work to me. As soon as I walk through the door to my building my cell phone rings...

Teenage Son: "I'm hungry and we don't have anything to eat."

I'm expecting the men in the white jackets to show up anytime for me.....

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