If you are a sports fan, today is a near holy day: NCAA national championships (congrats UNC on a well deserved national title) and first official day of baseball (get it together CC; not the performance we were hoping for).
The Little Boy pulled a great scam today. He's been feeling a tad under the weather of late, but nothing major at all. The Wife took him to school and as they were entering, he declared that he really didn't feel well and wanted to go home. The Wife is generally pretty strong but in this instance, for reasons I have yet to ascertain, she relented (probably because we are gong away next week).
On the car ride home, the Little Boy asked permission to watch the Yankees game if he did his homework. Not knowing today was opening day, the lights went off and the Wife quickly called me up. We both realized that we might have been a bit had, but I confess to not being all that dismayed. This will go in lore and will be worth the story: the time he scammed his mom to catch the Yankees opening game. I came home and we had a nice congenial conversation. I told him he got his one, and never to do that again. Then we quickly segued into a discussion of the game, which he dissected like a talmudic scholar. Anyway, funny stuff and again, as the father of a nine year old, I can't help but be a tad bit proud.
All that said, I'd never in a million years have been able to pull that off on my old man -- right dad?
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climbing out the bathroom window at hebrew school with your buddies may be the equal.gs
climbing out the bathroom window at hebrew school with your buddies may be the equal.gs
Papa and I were discussing the game and wondered if your son was upset he was in school and would be missing it. Little did we know he wasn't going to miss it. This is one to remember. I knew he was smart but now we know hpw smart.
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