donna723
Well-Known Member
When they get to this age, you just never know! When my son was in high school, he was a pretty good kid and very seldom just outright lied to me, but he was pretty adept at bending the truth or being very selective in which facts he chose to reveal. He had a good friend, B, who was also a pretty good kid. I worked with B's dad, a friend and really nice guy I had known for years who was raising his two boys as a single dad. One Saturday my son asked me if he could spend the night with B and I had no problem with it. He came home about lunchtime on Sunday and all was fine.
So, as luck would have it, I ran in to B's dad at work the next day and said something to him that I hoped my son hadn't driven him up the wall Saturday night and he just gave me this strange look! He said that the kids didn't stay at his house Saturday night. His son and my son and a half-dozen other boys had spent Saturday night at a cabin on the river, eating junk food, playing poker and smoking big cigars! He didn't have a problem with it because he knew exactly where they were and what they were doing! He assumed that I knew. I guess it's a "guy thing". But you notice, my son never specifically said that he was spending the night at their house, only that he was spending the night with B which was true, but he conveniently left out the part about the six other kids, the cabin on the river, the poker games and the big cigars!
So, as luck would have it, I ran in to B's dad at work the next day and said something to him that I hoped my son hadn't driven him up the wall Saturday night and he just gave me this strange look! He said that the kids didn't stay at his house Saturday night. His son and my son and a half-dozen other boys had spent Saturday night at a cabin on the river, eating junk food, playing poker and smoking big cigars! He didn't have a problem with it because he knew exactly where they were and what they were doing! He assumed that I knew. I guess it's a "guy thing". But you notice, my son never specifically said that he was spending the night at their house, only that he was spending the night with B which was true, but he conveniently left out the part about the six other kids, the cabin on the river, the poker games and the big cigars!