I should have known better

Lets rewind about 28 years to a my easy high school days (yup it was that long ago). It was a beautiful day, I think afternoon. I was sitting on the front porch of a good friend who lived up the street. He was the oldest of 5 boys and when his family moved in this family kind of became like a second family. Another boy was also on the porch with us. He lived across the street. So we are chatting doing whatever you do in high school. The rest of this story became my favorite funny story to recall years ago. So the friend who lived across the street I guess had not done some chores and his mom came out onto their front porch and was hollering across the street at him. She said "Tim I need you to get your laundry in now"! He said "just a sec mom". You could tell she was becoming frustrated. Finally in a VERY heightened voice she said “I DON’T HAVE ANY SECS DO IT NOW!” OK we were in high school and this statement just killed us. We were laughing so hard we were crying – which didn’t make her frustration any better. In our mind his mom just exclaimed to the entire neighborhood that she doesn’t have any sex.

Now let’s fast forward back to this past Sunday morning. Dan is all ready for church and felt entitled to come in on our computer and begin a game of Spore. There really wasn’t much time to be starting up a game and so I asked him to get his things together and be ready to get out the door. After my few attempts at this he said “give me just a sec mom”. In my frustration and completely forgetting the incident 28 years ago I said “Dan I have given you plenty of secs, you need to stop now”. I realized what I said and in that brief moment of recognition I thought maybe he wouldn’t catch what that sounded like. But I couldn’t help it and said oh that didn’t come out right and he immediately busted up laughing and continued to laugh all the way to church. I was worried it would become the joke of the day but he informs me that he did not bring it up thankfully. OK he is only 10 this should not have been funny but he has had LOTS of questions lately so . . . I just should have known better.

Speaking of knowing better, one should not give a 5 year old the bottle of ketchup to doctor up their hot dog. He LOVES ketchup so I might have seen this coming. If that wasn't enough I let him put on the mustard. What kid would put too much mustard on right? I probably did know better but I guess some day we have to let go and let them learn. By the way he ate this dog with every last drop of the ketchup and mustard with no complaints.