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| Written by Jean Carder | |||
| Wednesday, 22 July 2009 08:00 | |||
Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. And it must run in the family. I think my little brother and my son Drew both had to have been thinking those thoughts this weekend. When I talked to Mom on Saturday she said Marlin was having a rough weekend. All three of their vehicles broke down last week. The rear end went out of Marlin’s work truck early in the week, and I guess Saturday morning the gearshift broke in the other truck as he was getting ready to go to work. It does make it kind of hard to get to work if you have to walk seven or so miles one way. And I’m not sure what was wrong with vehicle number three. I was scared to ask. Drew had an equally bad weekend. Friday night he wasn’t feeling well and thought he was dehydrated. So he got up in the middle of the night to drink a couple bottles of water. While he was at it, he decided to watch some movies on the laptop. You can probably guess what happened. Water and laptops don’t mix so well. He finally came and woke me up and said there was something I needed to see. When you’re awakened in the middle of the night and told there’s just something you have to see, you can pretty much bank the news isn’t going to be good. And it wasn’t. But I couldn’t yell at him too much. It was obviously an accident, and he felt really bad about it. I did take the opportunity to remind him about the no-drinking-or-eating-when-using-the-laptop rule. Guess my kids are no different than most other teenagers. The rules go in one ear and out the other. It only gets better from there. On Saturday, he took the mower to the neighbor’s to do his weekly yard mowing. I keep accusing him of not liking our mower and trying to sabotage it. And sure enough, it quit running before he got done and before he could mow our yard. I asked Kinsey’s boyfriend to see if he could figure out what was wrong with it. His opinion is that it’s just plain worn out. “Great,” I think. I see a new laptop and a new mower in our future. By the time Saturday evening rolled around, I really needed a chocolate fix. It had been a long day. I reached into the freezer to grab the new carton of double fudge brownie ice cream and it was like soup. Don’t tell me the freezer is biting the big one, too, I thought. A new laptop, mower and refrigerator. Just what the old budget needs about now. So I cautioned everyone to be sure the door was shut tight and turned the temperature colder. Later as I was doing dishes I figured out what was wrong with the refrigerator. In the five minutes it took me to do the dishes, Drew had opened the refrigerator and freezer door at least four times each to see what there was to eat. I finally yelled at him get out of the refrigerator. There wasn’t anything new in there since the last time he looked. Guess he really is a typical teenager. At least now I know I don’t need a new refrigerator. There is still that small problem of a new laptop and mower. Maybe I’ll just stay in bed tomorrow.
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