Well, that explains it
I came home from my 4:45 movie yesterday to find DS1 here, having watched a movie with some people. Not usually a problem, right? I mean, just because it’s a dad weekend, they’re in and out of the house for various pieces of equipment all the time. Part of the charm and convenience of having X live so close.
Two of the three people were still here. These two were girls. The one wh0 had left already was a guy.
Me: (only wondering a little bit how much kissing (or more!!!) may have gone on) Uh, why didn’t you watch the movie at Dad’s?
DS1: ‘Cause he’s watching the [state highschool tournament] hockey game.
Me: Oh. Ok. Was it a good movie?
DS1 and girls concur that it was good, but “everyone dies at the end.” (They watched The Departed.)
DS1: Oh, and the circuit breaker flipped and I went down and turned it back on.
Me: That’s weird. Were you guys plugging in extra toasters or something while you plugged in the amplifiers and wailed on the guitar? Why’d the circuit break?
This house does not have a history of random circuits flipping for no apparent overload reason.
DS1: I don’t know. We weren’t doing anything the lights just went off [then he listed which ones] and so I went down and flipped the switch. It was the dining room circuit.
This morning as I left for church I figured out what happened. One of them slammed the front door closed on the vacuum cleaner cord (I had been cleaning the porch yesterday) and cut it in half. Must have been that cord shorting out that flipped the breaker.
And now, I have to find a place that will repair or replace the cord on a less than 1 year old vacuum cleaner.
Because I have nothing else on my to-do list.
At least it didn’t burn the house down.
Open suggestions to divorced dads out there:
- 15-years-10-months is probably too old to let your kid have a mixed gender group of kids watch a movie in an un-parented house.
- So, maybe you could watch the hockey game (or whatever) on the little TV in the other room, so he can have his friends over to your house and you can supervise on your weekends.
- Oh, and if you can’t do that…maybe you should check to make sure I’m home and that I don’t have plans before you say it’s OK and send him over.
Just saying.
Update: 1:03 Oh for Crying Out Loud! DS1 has been here since I walked in from church almost 40 minutes ago. Upstairs in his room. It’s a darn good thing I don’t bring ‘friends’ back to the house expecting it to be empty. I guess I’m going to have to “be a bitch” and say something to X about this. I so relish being the ‘rules cop.’
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A year ago (or longer) on This Journey…
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Questions 2008
March 26th, 2007 at 12:06 am
This all sounds so familiar. My ex lives three blocks down the street and the girls are always coming back to my place when they’re supposed to be there because he wants to watch sports or nap and he doesn’t have anything for them to do. What’s with those guys, anyway?
March 26th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Go get him girl! Maybe the kid is having a rough time over there?
March 26th, 2007 at 10:22 am
I guess someone has to be the responsible parent and I guess that has to be you. The X should have known better. He’s remembers when HE was 15. Definitely talk to him about this.
March 27th, 2007 at 5:21 am
Dude. You did NOT just tell me the ending of The Departed, did you?
Argh.
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