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Lot o points [155707]
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I love my teenage kids.
Oct 29, 2020, 8:24 AM
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Sitting here having my coffee.....son and daughter heading out the door to school.
Son: can I take your car dad?
Me: why
Son: because yesterday my check engine light came on and the brake light started flickering
Me: that would have been solid info to have told me yesterday
Daughter (with patented eye roll): DAD, people forget stuff sometimes!
Me: sigh and give him key, taking easy way out instead of continuing with my lesson in basic logic and responsibility.
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Orange Blooded [4356]
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Feels***
Oct 29, 2020, 8:30 AM
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Re: I love my teenage kids.
Oct 29, 2020, 8:33 AM
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Lot o points [155707]
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Look man, we can’t all just hop on the bus and then
Oct 29, 2020, 8:37 AM
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Take the L train into Hoboken.
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All-In [30190]
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Was more directing that towards your kids, not you
Oct 29, 2020, 8:42 AM
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I'm just happy mine can just walk to school.
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Lot o points [155707]
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I know, I was just trying to sound like JoeyNYC
Oct 29, 2020, 8:44 AM
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and act like I knew all about big city life. I apologize for my fraudulence.
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All-In [30190]
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I was going to correct your train usage, but decided not to
Oct 29, 2020, 8:45 AM
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L train to Brooklyn, PATH train to Hoboken.
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Yeah!
Oct 29, 2020, 8:46 AM
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Re: Yeah!
Oct 29, 2020, 8:48 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81648]
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Side note, I still remember how annoying it was trying
Oct 29, 2020, 8:49 AM
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to park to get to your place.
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Are there any lungers whose houses you haven’t driven to?***
Oct 29, 2020, 8:50 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81648]
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I'm trying to think of other junger's houses I have been to
Oct 29, 2020, 8:52 AM
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mumbo78® has the nicest house of any so far I can recall.
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Missed lecture opportunity about walking, snow, uphill etc.***
Oct 29, 2020, 8:42 AM
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My wife and I had this conversation last night
Oct 29, 2020, 8:58 AM
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we have four teenaged girls. Early on, I would follow up immediately and see punishments through. They don't try me....at all. They know if I say I'll take the phone or car away, I will. And usually for a long time. Wife instead, tries to be nice. So, of course, they try her all the time and she's angry that they do it to her and not me.
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Lot o points [155707]
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Usually I’ll inflict the lesson, even though it might
Oct 29, 2020, 9:16 AM
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Mean more work for me.
It’s pouring down rain outside though and if his car broke down between here and school it’s my grumpy arrse that’s going to be out there in the rain with him with the hood popped trying to figure out WTH is wrong with the car.
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Legend [16646]
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Well, at least you dodged the
Oct 29, 2020, 9:22 AM
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'In the rain' part, but the 'pop the hood...WTH is wrong' moment looms!
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Oculus Spirit [83625]
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In this instance...
Oct 29, 2020, 9:36 AM
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I probably would have done what you did.
But there have been a number of times I had to drive my highl school kids to school because of punishment. Pain in the butt for me, but they hated it worse.
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Lot o points [155707]
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Yeah, wanted him to learn how to fix his own car.
Oct 29, 2020, 12:25 PM
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It’s been hit or miss....he’s learned how to change all the various fluids on the car, how to bridge the terminals on a starter with a screwdriver to bypass the solenoid, valuable stuff like that.
But it’s still me running point on changing belt tensioners in a parking lot, troubleshooting alarm faults that keep the car from starting, and stuff like that.
Knock wood it’s been a great first car so far though.
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Re: I love my teenage kids.
Oct 29, 2020, 9:23 AM
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That is pretty funny.
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Heisman Winner [133774]
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My son is nine. He is a pretty responsible young man but
Oct 29, 2020, 12:35 PM
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I know time and puberty will change a lot of that. I hope not.
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Orange Blooded [2123]
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These feels....
Oct 29, 2020, 1:10 PM
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I have them.
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Re: I love my teenage kids.
Oct 29, 2020, 3:56 PM
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My son's school remains closed. I wish my govenor would stop this ####. Fingers crossed he will be voted out on Tuesday.
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