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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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I think you'll enjoy this Hank:
I was having a conversation with my neighbor last night. Not my next door neighbor, but the one a couple of doors down, the one with the teenage son.
"Balt," he said to me, "I'm just at the end of my rope here.
"Last year George [that's his son] asked Mabelle* and I if he could start staying out late, try to hang out with Britney.* Mabelle and I talked it over and talked it over, and then decided to let him stay out to midnight. He could go anywhere, we told him, as long as he was home by midnight.
"Never really liked Britney too much, and I thought George hanging out with her was a bad idea, but we told him he could go out, and we decided we had to trust him.
"Of course he got her knocked up.
"At first I just yelled at him about how I can't believe he did it, and how I would have not done the same thing, but that doesn't really solve the problem.
"Now I had a conversation with him today about planning for the future, about how he's going to take care of the baby. He just laughed and called me a hypocrite.
"Balt, what do I do?"
"You're problem," I said, "is that you're a flip-flopper. Flip-flop, flip-flop. Flip-flop. Flip! Flop!
"First you say you and Mabelle trusted him, and told him he could use his own judgement. Now you say you would not have done the same thing! Flip-flop! And you say you never really liked Britney, but now you want your son to stay with her and take care of the baby! Flip-flop! And you say you wouldn't have knocked Britney up, how then can you have a plan for what to do now!?! Flip-flop! Flip-Flop! No wonder he hates you."
I think he would have punched me right then, if George's friend Dick hadn't pulled up in his Hummer just then a flipped my neighbor the bird. Dick's the one who introduced George to Britney, by the way.
*Not her real name, but it's fun, isn't it?
