“a somewhat unusual view of the world”
Posted in Family humor, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2010
My teenage daughter brought home a couple of new pairs of jean shorts the other day.
Now apparently there must be some kind of world wide denim shortage that I was unaware of.
I would think that the manufacturers could be a bit more generous in the amount of material that they offer.
My wife: “Show these [...]
Posted in Family humor, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2010
The other day my wife had left instructions with our 15 year old daughter to put a pork roast in the oven for supper.
The whole thing fell apart though. I got a call from my wife:
My wife: “You will have to make supper when you get home.”
Me: “What happened to the pork roast?”
My wife: “She [...]
Posted in Family humor, It's a strange planet, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Jul 24th, 2009
I am going camping next week. The problem is that I live on the east coast. The east coast has been wet and cold for the past month. I don’t want wet and cold. I want hot and dry. In fact the only thing I want wet and cold is the beverage(s) going down my [...]
Posted in Family humor, It's a strange planet, Life with a teenager in the house on Apr 10th, 2009
I was laying on the couch the other day trying to read my book. I should have known better because a female was in the room (females can’t stand it when males have free time. It bugs them at some core level. I think it’s in their genes.)
Anyway in this case it was my 14 [...]
Posted in Family humor, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2009
I made one of those “father of the teenage girl” mistakes last fall.
Our 14 year old was on her junior high volleyball team. I was at her fist tournament. The gym was packed with three games going on at once.
She isn’t a starter so when she got called to go on the floor [...]
Posted in Family humor, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2009
My wife and I have noticed a trend with our 14 year old. If we are driving her to school she asks us to drop her off at a safe distance from the front doors (like say 2 miles).
“This is fine. You can let me off here. You don’t have to worry about driving all [...]
Posted in Family humor, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2008
If you have a teenage daughter you are probably aware of Stephenie Meyer’s mega hit novel ‘Twilight’ which has recently been released as a movie. Since the movie isn’t really aimed at middle aged parents, I will save you the risk of being trampled by a thousand teenage girls. Here is the summary:
Teenage girl falls [...]
Posted in Family humor, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2008
Shush! Be very quiet. Don’t let your kids know that you are reading this. See, I am doing an important investigative journalism piece on teens, and this new language of incomprehensible acronyms that they use for written communication. You will notice this if you observe teenagers text-messaging, using MSN Messenger or, heaven forbid, sending an [...]
Posted in Family humor, Life with a teenager in the house, Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2008
HELLO, my name is Mike. I have a 10-year-old son, a 13-year-old daughter, a wife, and a cat to boot. This, of course, means that I spend a considerable part of my life looking for lost things.
Things like the TV remote, cellphones, car keys, the TV remote, hockey pucks, someone’s favourite jeans, the extra house [...]