Teenagers are Strange Beings
The other day my honey and I came home to find that my daughter had not gone out, as she had told me she was doing, but, instead, was home with two of her friends. One (a boy) whom we’d never met before. Let’s call him Nitchell to keep it all secret. 
It seemed as if they were staying awhile and we were starving, so we decided to make up some spaghetti. We asked the kids if they wanted some spaghetti. The girls didn’t want any. Apparently they had just eaten not long before that (chips, nice nutritious dinner), however, Nitchell was hungry and wanted some spaghetti.
So we asked a few questions, soft or al dente, yada yada. But then, Nitchell said something like, “You don’t have to make it just for me. If you’re not having any, you don’t have to make it just for me.” Ya, right, Nitchell. We came home and saw a boy sitting there and decided that we should make up a meal for him alone. “Someone’s in our house, dear, let’s cook him up a meal”.
I responded to him that, “yes, I’m making that spaghetti just for you”. And when we asked him if he wanted salad with it, he said no. I said, “are you sure? I made that salad just for you”. But he still didn’t want salad.
While very polite about the whole thing, I’m wondering who gets catered to that much that they think a perfect stranger is yearning to cook just for them. Strangely enough, it makes me laugh.
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Female, taken, fire, Sagittarius, Monkey, Toronto, two kids, one grandson, IT.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
Boy you’ve never been a teenage boy thats for sure!
Its quite hard being a teenage boy, you never know what to say, never know what adult humour or sarcasm is. And then theres pimples, and girls.
I was a teenage boy till just a year ago when I turned 50. Now it seems I’m old.
He’s just being polite, and after all, you are you know, “cute”, so that confuses the mind of teenage boys too.
Just think of it as a compliment, he does not want you to make any fuss, but you did talk to him and thats “fuss” in any teenage boys life.
Blessed be.