“Mom, do you have any idea how embarrassing my life is? Don’t you know that in 5th & 6th grade kids are identified by their cell phones? And I’m stuck with Daddy’s stupid old flip phone. I’ve got a Samsung Lame…that means I’m lame. Please, please, please let me get a new phone.” Anna-11
Follow a mother's plight to find the funny in the frustrating and save her sanity. She will use this as blackmail, you can use it for birth control.Don’t Steal My Stuff…my kids will cry!
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I’m hysterical – Funniest one yet!
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Tom serenaded her with this song all weekend. Sadly, she didn’t find it as funny as we did. 😉
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She’s definitely going to rule the world so remember that you’re going to be old someday. I’d hate to think that the only thing that separates you from a nice cushy house and the county nursing home will be two words “Samsung Lame.” By the way, I’m still laughing!
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If I can live through my friends calling my cheap Zayres or Meijer gym shoes “buddies”, then your kids can live without the latest technology.
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If you managed to turn out fine after the trauma of wearing Zayres “buddies”, then she’ll survive with a Samsung “Lame”.
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LOL … heard stuff like that all the time when Darling Daughter was growing up. She usually stopped (though the pouting didn’t) when I told her I’d be happy to take her to get (whatever the cool thing of the week was) one, but that she’d be paying for it. 😀
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It sounds like your Darling Daughter was a fan of drama like mine. The more drama the better. 😉
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“Here, SIG Jr. – take this old tin cans, tie a string between ’em, and have a nice day.”
It’s a good thing I’m not a father.
My kids would HATE me.
🙂
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Or ‘these’.
It’s a good thing I’m not a father.
“Dad, my teacher says your grammar stinks…”
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Hahahahahahaha! Good stuff, SIG.
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…and my math skills stink. 🙂
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I like the tin can idea. I’ll suggest she cut out a picture of the iPhone and glue it to the can. 😉
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It’s official- you and Tom are the worst parents ever. You should have seen the cell phone I had when I was eleven. Oh right, you couldn’t. Because cell phones didn’t exist.
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Ms. Bieber, we suck! But we’re good with it. 🙂
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I need to print this for reference. I am anti-cell phones for kids (sorry readers), and I need to have this reference, so my boys know they are not the only kids with either no cell phone or a lame cell phone. My boys wear socks and sandals (at the same time). As a result, they’ll have other things to be concerned about more than cell phones. (smile)
Having a Smith’s song made this post more awesome. Just so you know. ~ Lenore
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Thanks Lenore. I knew I liked you. Knowing you also like The Smiths is just icing on the top. 😉
When Anna is finished with her Samsung Lame, I’ll pack it up and send it to your boys. They can stick it in their socks and start a new trend.
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Better than the tin cans, give her a couple old WW2 field phones. 10 pounds a piece, plus batteries, plus the wire between them. State of the art in 1937! (I only mention these because, if Anna challenges you to “put your money where your mouth is”, I could have a pair plus some wire sent to you in about 3 days. Trust me, you DON’T want to pay overnight rates! 😀 )
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Hilarious John! I can picture her showing up to her first day of 6th grade with those babies. She’d be the talk of the town. 🙂
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Ahh, The Smiths! Can’t get better than that.
Feel free to use the line my mom always used on me when I was that age: when you pay for it, you can get it. Start saving your pennies. (I guess now it would be dollars.)
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Jacquelin, thanks for sharing your mom’s quote…I like it. I hope she’s feeling better.
I’m happy to hear you share my affection for The Smiths. Brings me back to the 80’s. Maybe I’ll add a little Depeche Mode or The Cure to my next post. 😉
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I am so happy my kids are in their 30s and they can buy their own phones with their own money and spend a lot of time doing things on them that I can’t comprehend.
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I agree Renee! I have a fancy phone which is silly because I have no idea how to take advantage of all of its fancy options. I should probably have a Samsung Lame. 😉
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In your daughters defense…she did say “please” three times. Try getting that from a teenager. 🙂
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Rich, what can I expect from a teenager…just a look of utter disgust? 😉
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yes…with the infamous “eye-roll.” Brace yourself.
Love your stories.
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can’t wait. 😉
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Hahaha, Okay then bye bye Samsung Lame, hello quarters! Good luck finding a payphone kid, oh and you don’t just get quarters for your charming good looks, wit,and charm, you get some extra chores to earn them!!!
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“But Mom, what’s a pay phone?”
I like your idea about a quarter a chore…somebody has to clean this house. 😉
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I want to take apart a cell phone and put it inside an old rotary phone that the kids would have to carry around with them. I just can’t seem to find an old rotary phone.
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Now that would be a sight to see. They could carry it around in a fanny pack. 😉
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I have a 5 year old flip phone & I like it. I guess I’m lame too. Lame & old. I was on the train once & a kid pointed to me & said to his Dad; “Hey look an old guy with a mobile phone, cool!!!”
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Tony, that’s fantastic. I’m lame, old and embarrassing…but proud of it! 🙂
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