Posted by mair on March 15, 2005, at 22:04:29
In reply to Re: and?, posted by stresser on March 15, 2005, at 20:48:39
I'm so depressed and nonfunctioning these days, but I sure got a laugh out of both posts.
Periodically I can't stand it and I decide I'm going to clean my daughter's room or bathroom (which is truly gross and disgusting). The clean clothes and dirty clothes are annoyingly intermixed, and when I grab the dirty clothes in her bathroom hamper (and hanging out and on the floor), I keep finding these heavy worn-once sweatshirts that unbalance my washer and take an age to dry. It's so much easier to throw something in the hamper than it is to put it in a closet. And just how long can you walk on top of a jacket lying on the floor without even kicking it off to the side? - Months, apparently.
The first inevitable meltdown came this afternoon with a tearful diatribe about her chem teacher who seems to think that she needs to make-up a test everyone else took about 6 weeks ago AND take the test everyone else will be taking this week. When I suggested that the hockey trip might not have been a smart choice I got this really dirty look and the comment "you know I need balance in my life." I also got the comment I was expecting about how just once it would be great if I agreed with her.
At some point in his junior or senior year, I started to notice that my son was automatically emptying the dishwasher when he came home from school. I keep looking for those subtle changes from her too.
We did have a cleaning person come into our house once, take a look at my son's room and ask us if he was doing one of those "abroad" programs. He used to clean his room and then he wouldn't let his friends in there to play because he didn't want them messing it up. My daughter, on the other hand, thinks nothing of exposing her pigpen to all of her friends, male and female alike.
God, I loved the story about the hand bag. My daughter is truly miffed at the moment because my husband will need to take her car tomorrow since he has to go out of town and his car seems too unreliable to risk taking on a longer trip. She can't drive his, because it has a stick shift and he can't take mine, because it too needs some repair work before I dare have him take it any distance, so she'll either have to let me drive her to school, or she'll have to take my car and suffer the extreme embarrassment of showing up in a minivan. She can't believe we're inconveniencing her so much.
Mair
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