Sometimes its hard to be a teenage boy.
Ours is under siege these days. On a daily basis almost, his sisters shop him to management. The boss: "Three hours of doing homework! huh! he was on the INTERNET". The elder "help him with his maths? NO ONE could help him with his maths, he is rude and unwilling!". A sisterly duet: "Chocolates, whole packets of biscuits vanished, devoured,! milk mess in the kitchen!, electronic stuff damaged! it was him, it was him, IT WAS HIM."
The boy keeps a limped eyed persona in reserve for when taken to task, and he has an interesting line in excuses/rationalisations. My husband particularly enjoys these, and he tells me on Tuesday, smirking, that the boy now appears to have discovered on line porn. "Whaa, but we must, I mean, I must.." "You must WHAT, exactly?" "Dunno, um establish what kind of eh porn he is looking at and..and.." "To see if its tasteful you mean?" sniggers my life's partner. So anyway, we should be concerned with quantity rather than quality he assures me, and the web has joined the X Box on the restricted list. And the boy is fast assuming an injured, harried air.
Sometimes its hard to be a second husband.
Mine took raging refuse in the bedroom on Sunday evening, after being torn from the living room where he was watching a programme on Barbarians in the Middle Ages, to mend, for the umpteenth time a TV cable for the recreation room TV yanked loose by careless young people. The fearsome threesome descended, as he laboured, to watch X factor raucously and interactively in the living room on full volume. He loathes X Factor with vim and bile along with boy bands, trash TV, the twilight movies and yes, blithe teenage insouciance when it comes to Good Manners, Doing your Chores and Waste. It's been a baptism of fire for the poor man, who begins to see that he is a captive audience.
I lure him downstairs later on with tea and apple tart to watch Love/Hate. (Barbarians dispatched to their quarters). Something in the car crash events unfolding around the hapless and mostly witless characters is irresistible. It is a comedy of horrors. It is punctuated by some quite devastatingly unglamorous and authentic looking scenes of ie, a rape, a man's brutal slaying, a woman's experience of being slammed, poked and pushed into by punters over a day in brothel. Its brow moping, shattering, insane, and hysterically funny TV. And it is NOT the sum of its parts. But it IS guaranteed to put pesky teens in the halfpenny place.://www.hotvsnot.com/">web directory!</a> for free Find sites like this in the <a
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