DRAT! Foiled again

Nathaniel: Hey, mom, you know that in, like, five years I’ll be able to drive.

I SWEAR every time he says something like that I can feel another hair going gray.  It’s not even funny anymore.

Me: If you’re lucky.

Nathaniel: Dad says I can have his car then, and it goes really fast, so I think it’ll be awesome!

Dad apparently thinks it’s a smart idea to give a sixteen year old a car with a supercharger that hauls way too much butt for this mama’s brain to even consider as an option.  I’m thinking maybe a 1982 Geo Metro…and I’ll still probably want a Lojack system installed.

Me: Yeah. Um. Probably not.  If you’re so all fired-up to drive you can drive this van.

Cause nothing says COOL to a sixteen-year-old like a mini-van with stow and go seating…right?

Nathaniel: THAT would be AWESOME!!!

Me: errrr, whaaaaaa?

Nathaniel:  Just think of how many of my friends I could drive around in it and I could be the one to drive us everywhere and we’d have room for all our stuff and be able to do all sorts of stuff—”

Now I’m entirely positive that HIS idea of “stuff” and MY idea of “stuff” differed in every possible way.  He just doesn’t really think that way yet…I hope. But all of a sudden my mind flashed through scenes of him with six of his sixteen-year-old-hot-head buddies headed out into the night with a van that has all too much space and a back seat bench that folds down into a bed-like structure and OH MY GOD NO!!!  GEO METRO!!!  SCOOTER!!  SEGWAY!!  BUS PASS!!

Me: Please stop talking, Nathaniel. You’re making mommy’s brain fall out.

Nathaniel: Oh. Sorry about that.

Me: No, it’s ok, I’m sure you’ll do it again some time soon.

Sweet quiet.

And then.

Nathaniel:  Do you think I’ll have a girlfriend when I’m sixteen?

Like I said, SOON.

FAST FORWARD FIVE YEARS

Nathaniel: Ladies, step inside the Mayhew Mobile of Loooove! Oh, watch out for those spots, those are where my mom’s brain finally DID actually fall out of her head and I’ve just never been able to get the stains out of the upholstery.  Got any music preferences? Everyone likes Barry White, right?

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Which seems like an appropriate place to show off an award given to me by Jen at Sarcasm in a Skirt, and she gave it to me for “showing great attitude or gratitude”.  Which MAY or MAY not have been awarded before the post of how I threatened to leave my kids behind in an empty house without running water or heat in Georgia. Maybe. But she gave it to me and I’m NOT giving it back!

And I’m supposed to link to 10 other bloggers who are awesome and wonderful and show a lot of heart, but I’m going to twist it around and ask you to leave me a comment sharing a blogger YOU think has a great attitude so I can go check them out. Which is totally more fun for me and well, it IS all about me, right?  *snort*