Tuesday, December 4, 2007

What Not to Wear

Conversation with Tino before bed:

Tino: Mom, I am going to wear long pants to school tomorrow. (Long Pause . . . waiting for me to gasp since my kid knows that I know he NEVER wears long pants unless it is absolutely necessary. I make him wear long pants to church on Sundays and he wears them for no longer than 3 hours and 1 minute. Actually 3 hours 21 minutes to allow for travel time to/from church).

Mom: O.K. Sounds good to me.

Tino: Well, mom . . . I only have three choices for school tomorrow. (Long pause again. I fail to comment because I am so not in the mood to see where this conversation is going).

Mom: (Taking the bait . . . only to humor my son) And what are those choices?

Tino: A. Long pants B. Walk around in my underwear all day long at school or C. Wear my dirty shorts that I have already worn a couple days in a row.

Mom: Great. OR, you could go ahead and put away your PILES of folded CLEAN laundry that have been stacked neatly on the corner of your bed since Friday afternoon.

6 comments:

Heather said...

You should have said B.

Smart aleck Tino.

Unknown said...

good idea to alert him to the clean clothes - that XY chromosome combination makes for color blindness as well as clean clothes neatly folded in their room blindness - occurs all the time in this male dominated household.

Celia Fae said...

I can't believe he would decline wearing those dirty shorts. They must have had something on the bum, because otherwise dirty shorts are purty shorts.

AnnEE said...

I vote for the undies.

Hazen5 said...

Good come back Mom! I vote fir undies too.

Jessica said...

D was so much less fun, though.