On Saturday, I was driving home from the high school hockey game, with my son and two young girls (16+) in the car. My son had been interested in one of the girls, but my wife and I felt that she was just using him until something better came along. Due to this, my feelings towards these two girls were somewhat ambivalent. You know, I wasn’t trying to put on the “good parent” show so I wouldn’t ruin my son’s chances with these two. I was just being me, a smart ass.
As a side note, once they got out of the car, and we continued to drive home, my son confided in me that he thought that he was being used as well, and that he felt like a tool. When I asked him what he was going to do about it, he told me that the next time Jennifer asked for a ride, he was going to reply that he couldn’t because “the tool shop is closed now”. Nice. Both my wife and I laughed at this. A good come back.
So anyway, as we’re driving home, we were in a discussion about why my son just didn’t drive himself. I said that I wasn’t sure if he knew how to get the rink downtown and how to get back from it, so I decided to come along.
One of the girls said “we could have figured it out, I have mapquest in my pocket”
I must have waited a full 10 to 15 seconds, which seemed like an eternity, to see if anyone else picked up on that comment. When no one did, I slowly said
“Is that a mapquest in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
Pandemonium broke out in the car. The girls were laughing, my son was shocked (shocked!) that I would have said something like and I was laughing so hard I almost had to pull over.
Later during the weekend, my wife was looking at all of the ads in the paper, and pointed out some good deals on GPS units. I told her that we really didn’t need one. When she asked why, I looked at her with a sly look on my face and said “Here, let me show you the mapquest in my pocket….”.
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