Parental worries

Kids attend a sort of drama workshop on Wednesday evenings. The Doctor
usually lifts them to it, in Wimbledwon. Tonight, Helen's sick, so Jamie
says he'll make his own way over, on the bike, of course.

It ends at 7.30pm. It's a 30-minute run by car. 20 minutes, tops, by
bike.

And he doesn't show. And I don't have anything to drink in case I've got
to go looking for him. And 8.15pm he arrives. He got lost.

I'm starting to realise how my parents worried, every time I went
out.....

 

The Older Gentleman said...

I went missing for 3 days once[1] while I was still at school, my
parents didn't realise I'd gone out until I came home all umkempt.

[1] She was well worth it

 

The Older Gentleman wrote

I am glad mine have left home in that respect, I haven't got the veins
left for a second set of surgery.

 

Fucking kids. My 11 year old turned into the bitch from hell tonight.
I got a phone call from a potential employer tonight and she turned into
Vicky Pollard because I asked her
if I could check my diary on the computer.

Bad move, for her.

 

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this is the bit that really caused the trauma though!

He got lost and he used his initiative and got home. All good practice
for life outside the parental nest.

Well ISWYM but I don't really have you down as a worrying parent and
both of your kids are smart cookies - when they want to be!

 

At age 8 I ran away from home (I had read too many adventure books). My
parents reported my disappearence to the police. The police responded by
rounding up all the suspected child molesters within a 20 mile radius. The
nearby lakes and rivers were being searched by divers and loads of local
people had volunteered to search in the vicinity. Meanwhile I and my
friend who I had persuaded to go along with me had managed to hide out in
the storeroom of a printing company that just happened to be opposite the
police station. I remember looking through the window at the police station
opposite and being fascinated by all the activity - people coming and going
and cars zooming up and then charging away again (it never occurred to me
that there might be a connection to my "disappearance"). Eventually, when
the plan to join the circus started to look like a non-runner we gave
ourselves up. I expected to get a good hiding from my dad but he was so
pleased that I wasn't dead and hadn't been molested that he just hugged me -
result or what!

 

If you weren't such a grasping, parsimonious skinflint, you'd have got him
an Ape, which would have been much safer.

Laura has expressed an interest in doing a CBT, but unless she really puts
some effort into showing commitment, it'll be left to wither on the vine.
If she gets as far as actually doing the CBT, she's still got to get a bike.
I can't see her getting off her arse any time soon, and she'll be 17 before
she knows it. At which point she can do her driving test and pootle around
in a nice little car for a couple of years acquiring some road sense.

 

You make sure you do the hard work now, makes things a lot better
later.

 

HaH ! the older they get the worse they get. I can remember wishing they
would grow up faster so I could do things with them. Now the oldest two are
18(boy) and 16(girl) I wish they were back crawling around the floor. The
third one at 8, sees how the oldest two act and tries to be all grown up
too. In my opinion, you are never old enough to have kids. They are quite
simply their grandparents revenge.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Stuart Gray

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I may be able to help. Pass her here.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

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Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Sounds to me like he just went for a hoon really...

 

Is she bovvered?

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I recently verged 45, you held off better than I did. May your God go with
you. (no caricature available - due to Muslim sensibilities)

 

16(girl) I wish they were back crawling around the floor.

What will you swap?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Stuart Gray

A few moments of peace and quiet?

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - There are few things in life more sinister than a
public toilet with the lid closed.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

The Older Gentleman emerged from their own little world to say

Chill out, you old fart.

 

The message <1ha3ons.yhas2q1uf23yoN%>
from (The Older Gentleman) contains
these words:

I only discovered that after the worst almost happened - but I survived.

Just.

And I went out rather a lot.

 

I'll raise you a decade, and a Yamaha GTS1000. Seems fair to me.

 

Wrong chav.

 

That's probably it, yes.