Intro To a Real Life Veteran
He was voted most likely to go to jail.
Whatever happened to that kid you wanted to strangle as a teenager? Think he’s still up to no good?
My son was once the kid voted most likely to go to jail by his own principal (which, incidentally, hurt him more than he’d admit and made me mad as hell). He wasn’t a bad kid really, he just got bored easily, and he loved to be the class clown.
He lived with his father up until his high school years. When he moved back, he and I talked about his failing grades and his reputation. I’d heard that he had a habit of getting himself into trouble with the teachers and then asking his dad to go to bat for him to fix it.
We started his move back like this: “Just so you know, if you get into trouble with a teacher I’m not on your side”
He seemed stunned at first. “What if it’s their fault?” he shot back.
“Nope.”
He crossed his arms and sulked, “Teachers have stupid rules.”
“True. Some of them do.” (I couldn’t see any reason that I couldn’t agree.) I knew that the whole “they’re-doing-it-for-your-own-good” thing wasn’t going to work on him.
“But that’s the way it is in life,” I told him. If you get a job, it won’t matter if the boss has…
