UH OH!

Yesterday afternoon, I picked up my kids and the neighbor kids from the high school. My oldest daughter and the boy across the street were laughing like crazy as the walked to the car.

“What’s so funny?” I asked. Hey, I like to laugh, too.

My oldest daughter, between fits of laughter, told me that Middle Daughter got a detention.

DETENTION?! So far this story didn’t even sound mildly amusing.

Middle Daughter is really a good kid. She’s also very much like me, and let me tell you, had I ever received a detention in high school, I would have been mortified. I couldn’t even imagine a reason that she would get detention, unless, she told someone off. When she does that, she can be quite direct.

When she was young, she had terribly crossed eyes. Most of the kids never said anything about this, but there was one girl who was always teasing her. So, one day in class, she bent over and said...

“You know what, kiss my ass. I know it’s not as big as yours but you should be able to find a spot.”

Of course, I have NO idea where my daughter would have ever heard something like that and I tried to convince the principal of that, but it was hard between my fits of laughter.

“Just ask to borrow her cell phone!” chucked Neighbor Kid.

Yes, my kids all have their own cell phones. Our schedules are so chaotic and all the kids participate in a lot of activities and the cell phones allow us to communicate easier so I’m not waiting in the car an hour for a bus to come back and leaving another kids stranded somewhere.

That’s the main reason. Of course, they do use them for other things.

I saw Middle Daughter walking to the car and her large sapphire eyes looked horrified, so when she hopped in the car, I played along and asked if I could borrow her cell phone.

Obviously, she figured out that the big mouths in the car already told, so she came clean. Middle Daughter is serving a four hour detention this Saturday for the crime of Texting During Lunch. Gasp!

I would have been very angry with Texting During Class, but Texting During Lunch? That is a wee bit amusing, especially since it was me she was texting during lunch.

“She got busted because she texts like a freshman.” Oldest Daughter said.

What the heck does that mean? Is that anything like Walk Like An Egyptian? I didn’t know.

She proceeded to perform quite an animated version of Freshman Texting. Too much looking around only draws suspicion to the very thing they are trying to hide.

“You have to text without looking. Just do it and do it quickly so you don’t draw suspicion to yourself.” Oldest Daughter advised.

What great advice and glad to know Oldest Daughter can beat the system. She’s always been clever that way!

So, Middle Daughter will be cell phoneless until Saturday morning when she serves her detention detention for texting me during lunch. I guess my penalty for leading my kid so astray is having to get up early to take her there. I’m definitely getting the better end of the deal, no doubt.

Sigh. It’s always something.

C U l8r.