The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he went inside and told his mother the lens was nowhere to be found.
Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the lens in her hand.
"How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
"We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."
By the way, I will be posting jokes again in a week or so.
Merry Christmas to all y'all.
AMEN!
Natalie, mother of money-grubbing teens
That is no joke. Absolute fact. Works almost every time.
Sure it is...also it's no good to tell the teenybopper to go out and look for $150 either cuz she'll be looking for a very slight inconvenience involving buttering up dear old Dad for 5 minutes...(certainly not 20 hours of working at MacD's...which is much more correct)
The way to bypass the mom (or the dad) having to hunt is to put the teen on an allowance. My kids had to buy their OWN stuff from the time they were teens -- we provided the money for the essentials, but they had to decide how and where it was spent. It was amazing how good they got at bargain hunting when THEY had to stretch the bux, and there were never any arguments about what brands of clothes, glasses, et al that had to be bought; those were all their decisions, and they got to be quite good at deciding when or if the "in" brands were OK or not, depending on how much money was left for other things if they bought them or not. I especially liked how the pressure moved from Mom and Dad to the kids . . . .
They paid their own way through college and bought their own cars, too (moving the thread to somewhat Toyota related) . . . .
-Don (with independent kids outta the house for good)
Damned good procedure too Don...educates them to the realities, I did this too, with four, all age grouped within five years (musta been something in the Toronto air for that period!)
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