The Boys father called me this morning at 7:30am. He has been calling a lot lately. Where is The Boy? Did he go to school, was he really at work? What is he doing with all his money? He lives with you, why don't you fuckin' ask him?
I know the boy has been trying to save up for an iPod Touch. But was foiled recently when he had to use that money to buy hockey gear. (Gear his father should have paid for, but was conveniently out of town and unable to purchase.)The Boy was defeated.
I had to giggle at the 'all his money' question. He works at Wendy's he might make $150 a week, if he is lucky. And since getting the job his father won't even give him 5 bucks for his ice time for hockey. 'All his money' is what he is living on.
So this morning, he finds a business card from the Cash Store (payday loans) on the bathroom floor. He calls me and goes ballistic, "If I catch him at that place I will rip his head off. "
"What the hell are you on about?" I didn't hear much of his ramblings, except for the last part.
"I don't want him to end up like you!" And then of course he hangs up. One of the many reasons we are no longer together, he doesn't fight. He is more of a hit and run kinda asshole.
I am not completely sure what he meant by that, or how he imagines I ended up.
Luckily we live in the 21st century so I get out my mobile phone. And text him.
End up like me? Just remember that YOU are the common denominator in this scenario, Asshole!
No reply.
As long as he doesn't meet some asshole and have to try and figure out how to raise a child ALL BY HIMSELF, he should be fine.
Still nothing
And what exactly are you doing about it? Except treating him the same way you treated me? We'll be lucky if he doesn't turn out like you.
The man is lucky he was not standing in front of me, I would have dropped him like a rock.
Turns out The Boy needed something to write a confirmation code on, he had ordered a meal at Swiss Chalet. TBF will be disappointed that there was no cloak or daggers involved. Sometimes I wonder what I ever saw in him. Wait, now I remember, it was the car.
They say it takes a village? Well my sister is the Queen of that village. She heard about the boy having to spend his money on hockey gear and promptly ordered an iPod touch for The Boy. It will be here in a few days. She wanted to have it engraved 'Because your father is a prick' but I went with 'Love Aunt Adah'. I think the prick thing is implied.
TBF wouldn't even think of lifting a finger for anyone, ever. Unless, of course, there was something in it for him.
That is the difference in the gene pool between our family and TBF's. I am sorry I ever swam in the shallow end of his.
2 comments:
aw you have the bestest sister ever. now, i'm glad i'm an only child and all but if i had to have a sibling, she sounds like the kind i'd want around! i hope she beats up tbf too. (i bet she can do it!) :D
lol "turn out like you"...so hmm...in THAT scenario, the boy will be witty and hilarious, not prone to sugar coat the truth for ANYONE, DEFINATELY not prone to give into any type of peer pressures or general stereotypes and will pretty much always do what makes himself happy, regardless of what else comes from it. So if "being like you" is the worst case scenario, I think the boy's got a bright future, even at his worst. Ya gotta admit, in our family, Evel, there's never been a mother who knew what the hell she was doing; God look at MINE lol...but all of us seemed to turn out alright. So, the boy has no worries, he's got a good background behind him.
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