Me: "I'm at the store, and I found a winter jacket you might li-"
Ben: "Mom Mom Mom. I have a new jacket."
Me: "It's a sweatshirt."
Ben: "Oh. Yeah."
Me: "Anyway, this one is very dark gray with medium gray accents. Very dreary. It's perfect for you."
Ben: "You can return it, right?"
Me: *Sigh* "Yes."
Ben: "Okay. I guess."
Posted on my BlackBerry from the parking lot.
Update: He kept the jacket.
I'll take it. Medium.
ReplyDeleteWhy do we do this to ourselves?
ReplyDeleteLOL You should try this with a daughter because it's way more dramatic! "How could you think that I would wear such a hideous garment...yadda yadda yadda"
ReplyDeleteKids.
A surprisingly positive exchange, really.
ReplyDeleteMaybe this happy outcome will lead him to trust you more on the subject.
ReplyDeleteHa.
In all fairness, I would always tremble when my mother purchased clothing for me without my input. Some of the stuff? Lord have mercy.
ReplyDeleteAnd did you implicitly trust your mother's taste in outfitting your wardrobe when you were growing up?
But so typical that zippered sweatshirt = winter coat in the mind of a teenage boy.
Yeah, I know better than to try anything more than the jacket. His girlfriend takes him shopping with my credit card. He always come home with jeans and black T's. But they're special jeans and T's.
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