Who's Laughing Now?

Who's laughing now?

You can talk to your kids about the 'real world' until hell freezes over... No need to listen to adults share their experiences. No need to heed the warnings from people who live in the 'real world'. Like your parents, for instance.

I love my daughter, but I am laughing now. Did she think we were wrong? Did she think we were stupid? I sure hope she enjoyed being a lazy-ass twit for three years.

Daughter has a job as a security guard. Her employers want to know about an 18-month blank on her job application. Her employers want to hear from someone besides a relative about that span of time.

I'd be thrilled to tell them what she did during those 18 months: Absolutely nothing.

She didn't go to Russia and become a KGB spy. No way, too much effort. Might have been required to get up before noon. Same applies to Iraq, Iran, and China. Why work if you can mooch off your folks?

She had a paper route at age 14 and that was the last job she did with a good attitude. She worked at Penney's and dissed everyone else who worked there. She worked at a Subway and knew more than the couple who managed it. She worked at Arby's and thought she could tell the manager what hours she would work.

Don't think that we didn't try to get her to work. Of course we did. She would work(a little) at jobs we provided.

She worked for me watering plants one summer and I fired her. I told her plants needed to be watered no later than 10:00 AM. After that it was too hot and watering the plants would cook them. The day she watered the plants at 1:00 PM was the day I fired her. Some of the plants dried out in the heat, wilted past the point of recovery; by the time she watered them they were no longer salable. Most of them lived, being hardy perennials, but they looked like shit. Not plants I could take to farmer's market and sell.

Kids do crap like that and then wonder why their parents are unhappy with them.

Kids run smack-dab into the real world and wonder why their parents are laughing.