My teenager tells me he needs some new sneakers and some new jeans. (somehow his clothes have been disappearin' since he started doing his own laundry. Yeah, I can't figure it out either) So I pick him up from school and we head to one of the two stores in town where we can actually buy shoes and clothes.* After tryin' on 5 pairs of sneakers, he decides that the most expensive ones are the most comfortable ones (are you surprised? didn't think so). So we're standin' at the cash register and I look over at him and he's got his arms open. Open?
"Hug?" he asks.
"What??" I ask back.
"I wanna hug," he says.
"Really? Why?" I ask. (what else could he want? I just bought the most expensive pair of shoes in the store!)
"Just 'cause."
"IN PUBLIC?"
"Yeah."
So what did I do? I picked my amazed ass up off the floor and hugged my crabby, don't-talk-to- me-in-public, bigger than me, 15-year-old son.
Sometimes parenting does have its rewards.
Thanks for listenin'
*I am totally serious - we only have TWO clothes/shoe stores in town. If we want a wider variety we have to drive for 45 minutes. Sometimes livin' in the mountains sucks :O)
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