Two important things you should know: I have a cold and we need to go school supplies shopping. The perfect storm.
This means I will be more bitchy than usual likely purchase either too much stuff or miss key items entirely.
Last year, I went to 3 places (on and off Bainbridge) in a hunt for a certain, special and singularly critical as a parental harassment device felt tip pen and came up short. I started to think it was an imaginary pen and we needed to find a secret, hidden doorway to get a message from a talking unicorn to locate its whereabouts.
That evil pen is back on the list.
Not that I don’t love school supplies. Who doesn’t adore notebooks with crisp, white paper? Or clean, juicy markers, undented by teeth? Or that new-fangled and amazing item which we oldish folks never had the pleasure of using – the glue stick?!
Glue in my school days consisted of two choices: Elmer’s with its orange tip covered by hardened glue (or worse, the internal clog requiring glue bottle surgery to release) or rubber cement. Remember that joy? A metal lid with a brush attached, perfect for dripping the gummy goo across table, desk, sleeves, laps and curious dogs’ noses.
Yes, glue sticks rule.
Cold or no cold, I shall intentionally buy an excessive amount of glue sticks.
What school supplies do you love?
Colored pencils! Nita loves school supply shopping. I was trying to talk to her about buying new school clothes and shoes and she interrupted me with, “When can we go to Office Max?!”
Trish´s last [type] ..Fear
Awww, a child after my own heart! And colored pencils seem like a great, big-kid school supply! No more crayons on the list….
I laughed out loud at the cold and back-to-school shopping … I can feel your hell.
My son told us he had to have a $150.00 calculator for his higher math class (his senior yer) and I actually found myself asking him, “Do you really need this class?” Which tanslates to: Can’t yout ake this class in college when you are working part-time and yo cna pay for it?’
These are the times we ask oursleves what kind of mothers we are…until…
While my ex-husband and I were “discussing” who was going to buy this calculator, our son apparently got disgusted with us and told his teacher that his parents weren’t in any hurry to buy him his much-needed claculator . (A students will do this. I recommend not raising one.)
But he waits until his parents are negotiating the calculator purchase, which means we were in a car together parking in the parking lot at Best Buy still coming up with a solution when he lets us know that the calculators can be rented at school (for a quarter of the price with half the money being refunded when you return them) and he has one on hold and could we “just give him the money…?”
When we turned to ask him what in the &^%$@!! we were doing at Best Buy, he tells us that there is this new computer game…
Yes. He is still alive.
Catherine
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catherine, this cracks me up! such balls on the boy! glad he’s still breathing (for now, eh?).
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