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Blog EntryPride and Prejudice and SpitwadsJun 28, '08 11:24 AM
for everyone

Well my son had an interesting birthday.  For a while we thought the only SNAFU was going to be that everyone ate the cheese pizza first pass, we got cheese because one friend does not eat pork, but he was happy with the veggie pizza.

But wait there's more.

Ok we are watching Speed Racer, it starts slow, and takes a bit to get used to the comic book style camera shots.  I was sitting about five rows back with one boy, my son and the older boy on one side of the isle, then the Three Amigos on the other side of the isle, front row.

On the screen I noticed something on the screen it was where the faces on the screen was, I pretty much ignored it, hell the Imax screen has rip in it, why worry about the discount theatre?

Finally someone yelled "knock it off with the spit wads."  I stood and took a good look at the lower right of the screen. I was like you (bleeps!) now what am I supposed to do. Then here comes the manager, takes the Three Amigos to the office, I tell the other boy to go sit with my son and the older boy. Off I go with them.

The manager was wanting 200 bucks to clean the screen or he was going to the police. I am on my cell phone telling Becky what happened and to tell parents to get over here, I do not have 200 bucks to cover this. I felt a bit bad because I was the adult with them, but I am so used to my own son, and never having this crap happen. So I let them sit where they wanted.

Some peeved, lets stress that to PEEVED parents showed up. One single mom just moved and was hurting, so we covered their part, 70 bucks, and now we will have yard work services of a young man for a while.  Two other young men have a plate full of chores for the next week or two. For statistical purposes one of the young men has a strong father at home full time. One is in a separated home, one is raised by a single mom, so the political statistics have all three categories. Of course this is just a kid prank, not anything serious, if lessons are learned now.

I am very proud of my son, other peoples kids do show how nice I have it (so far.) We were very sure to let our son know how happy we are with his mature behavior and well mannered disposition. His room might be a pig sty, but his heart is pure. :)  It is also good my son was not involved the manager is going to be his math teacher next year!

It was his birthday, but we got the gift!


11 Comments
drmccoy2008 wrote on Jun 28
that is a fucked up story, sounds hollywood, i didnt know shit like that happened in peoples real lives, he wanted a bribe rather than the kids being kids and him saying knock it off or we'll throw you out

what an ass clown
direwolfghost wrote on Jun 28
I double checked and yeah theatre screens are cleaned by a carpet cleaner like thing you can't just pull off the spit wads. We all offered to have the boys coem and clean the place but I guess others have skipped out on him. So he was not pulling a scam.
drmccoy2008 wrote on Jun 28
I double checked and yeah theatre screens are cleaned by a carpet cleaner like thing you can't just pull off the spit wads. We all offered to have the boys coem and clean the place but I guess others have skipped out on him. So he was not pulling a scam.
well, from that perspective, he's protecting the property i guess,
debosofi wrote on Jun 28
I would have pretended not to know the three amigos, but I'm irresponsible like that.
crkincalifornia wrote on Jun 28
I can relate. More than once I was called to get my son and his friends. Once I was trying to go blond so I'd bleached out my brown hair color and as anyone who's done this knows it makes ones's hair bright yellow. I was sick with migraines and throwing up. And I wasn't dressed. It was my day off. So I get called to go in and find out they were trying on shoes and one of them decided to try walking out with them and the security guard tackled one of them and they were telling me this long story and I'm standing there with clown hair. I let my son have it verbally and when his friend smirked I yelled are you smiling this isn't funny etc. The guards were so impressed that they let my son go but he was banned from southland mall for life. But the other kid had to go to a hearing. He was let go but it was embarrassing. Any way years later my son was the good kid...always, not just borderline good with a mom on top of things. Now he's kind of flirting with the bad kid thing. Hope it goes away. You're a good dad and those other parents should be lucky you were there. But if it was me I would have refused to pay, yelled at all the kids, insisted they go to where they were getting picked up, and started very dramatically started to clean the screen myself until they were so annoyed they let us go. But that's just me. I'm old. When I was younger I might have started crying. But since my 30's I've had a meen streak. Ok I'm done babbling on your blog now.
direwolfghost wrote on Jun 28
HA HA
Well I felt responsible to a point. It never crossed my mind they would pull that bullcrap. I usually keep a close eye on my kids incase of pervs, not him misbehaving.
catherinechicago wrote on Jun 28
It is great that you are making them do yard work to pay for the damages. Making children pay the consequences for their actions is how you build mature adults.

Good for you. The fact that you took them all to the theatre in the first place speaks well of you.

Now about fireworks....lol
direwolfghost wrote on Jun 28
Making children pay the consequences for their actions is how you build mature adults.
OH my gosh we agree!

That calls for fireworks! :)
crkincalifornia wrote on Jun 30
yipee we cant have them cuz stuff might burst into flames so I just watch yours ok
direwolfghost wrote on Jun 30
I cant have those type of fireworks either. We get sparklers and poppers. In the good old days I used to have the really illegal stuff :)
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