On 10/2/2014 1:23 PM, Becca EmaNymton wrote:
> On 10/1/2014 8:34 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:
>> On 10/1/2014 5:44 PM, wrote:
>>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 15:13:27 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 3:23:36 AM UTC-4, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>>> My new flatware arrived the other day and now I think I know what
>>>>>> happened to my old set!
>>>>>
>>>>> Julie, you bought your new flatware at Walmart. The stuff you
>>>>> bought is
>>>>> now on sale at $19 for a 45-piece set. It's garbage.
>>>>
>>>> Why would you say that it's garbage?
>>>
>>> Err... the PRICE, perhaps??
>>>
>>>> I live in a house where the forks
>>>> disappeared and then the spoons. I am not going to buy expensive
>>>> stuff when
>>>> someone in this house just doesn't care what happens to it.
>>>
>>> ROTFL. I grudgingly have to give you credit for your imagination.
>>> The implications of this latest claim is most interesting,
>>> particularly for a family environment.
>>>
>>
>> When I raised teenagers, my flatware and dishes would disappear. When
>> there was enough missing, I would put on a mask and gloves and venture
>> into my son's room and retrieve dishes and flatware. Generally it would
>> have to be soaked for several hours before being fit for the dishwasher
>> to sterilize on the hottest of wash and dry settings.
>>
>> We wouldn't even let the dog in his room as we couldn't find appropriate
>> vaccines for "teenage boy's room" :-)
>
> Janet, I had a good laugh, when I read this. My youngest son was the
> same way, it started when he was about 12 yrs old and it was just awful,
> I could not stand the smell. I would warn him that he needed to clean
> his room, or I would clean it for him. I went looking for flatware and
> dishes, and as I trudged through his room, I would find spark plugs,
> scissors, wrenches, screwdrivers. It got better a few years later when
> girls started to visit, he cleaned his room, then.
>
> Becca
Between his Junior and Senior years he went to Europe with the Youth of
America Honors Band. They were gone two or three weeks so I decided I
was going in there to clean his room.
When I went to flip the mattress I discovered some magazines that should
have remained out of a mother's sight. Left the rest of the room undone
as I didn't want to find any more things that would make me blush :-)
I know his curiosity was normal. I suppose my maternal reaction was
normal, too.
At one point in time Barry got the kid his own subscription to Playboy.
When I asked him why, he said he was tired of having to pry the pages
apart. That, too, was TMI for me. Some things belong in a man's world. :-)
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