{"id":1503,"date":"2009-01-24T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T22:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-01-24T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T22:26:26","slug":"living-with-teenage-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/01\/24\/living-with-teenage-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with teenage boys."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parentingteensblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/flasher-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"flasher\" title=\"flasher\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-778\" \/>I count myself lucky, actually, to have a son that collected such a great group of friends. I am even more lucky in that I, as they are fond of telling me, possess the mind and humor of a 16 year old boy. We all get along just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I&#8217;m never afraid to beg them to do something for me &#8211; like bring me a diet <strike>crack<\/strike> coke, or check something on the car, or drop something into the mail box. T, the newest of &#8216;my&#8217; boys, has just gotten to the point where he&#8217;s stopping by to grab a cup o&#8217;noodle and bs for a while. I got to embarass him a bit about his girlfriend last night, and make him blush, and he didn&#8217;t run away this time! Instead, he said &#8220;oh! your car! you needed me to look for something&#8230;&#8221; and dashed outside.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentingteensblog.com\/living-in-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">cold snap<\/a>? Well, at some point during that OMGCOLD spell, I started the car only to discover that my blinkers and hazard lights weren&#8217;t working. Lovely. I called my dad and told him that I thought a fuse blew and he said no, it was the &#8216;flasher&#8217; and he&#8217;d go get the part. Then, last night, T &#8211; our resident Car Boy &#8211; discovered that indeed, it WAS a fuse, as the hazards and blinkers had been hotwired by the previous owners to use the same fuse.<\/p>\n<p>In other words &#8211; I was TOTALLY right. And you can bet your sweet bippy I called Dad and told him so too! He tried to deflect me by talking about the busted heater, but I got in my &#8220;Neener neener I was right!&#8221; anyway. Just because I don&#8217;t know a fuse from a hole in the ground, and had no idea what I was talking about anyway &#8211; it does not deflect from the fact that I! Was! Right!  Neener.<\/p>\n<p>So, all of this left us with the &#8220;flasher&#8221; plug sitting on the console in the jeep when my son took me to lunch today. While waiting for our food, he proved himself to be his grandpapa&#8217;s grandson, by picking up the piece, studying it, and asking the all important question:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, if I plug this into the back of a girls neck, will she then flash everyone?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I laughed. You gotta admit that was pretty amusing, and definitely something his Papa probably would have said, had he thought of it first. I swatted him on the arm too though, because I am STILL his mother. Even if I was laughing.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, life with teenage boys is endlessly amusing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I count myself lucky, actually, to have a son that collected such a great group of friends. I am even more lucky in that I, as they are fond of telling me, possess the mind and humor of a 16 year old boy. We all get along just fine. Which is why I&#8217;m never afraid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adolescence","category-sons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}