Thread: Father Son Project..........NOT.....

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Originally Posted by Mr Blue

Barb,
Seems to me a place to stay and warm meals is all the payment your son should need. Crazy to think you have to pay for the help and adding your injury into the mix he should be there for you in my humble opinion.
Don Jr.

Yeah, what he said.

thanks tech. but i do not know what to do with him some days. he is a good kid but he seems to like to push my buttons. and there are days that i push back verbally. but when it comes to my car and him helping me it is a battle. so i figure out how i can do things by myself. when it is done and he wants to take it somewhere i am going to charge him for the privelege. then when he complains i am going to tell him that if he had helped me when i needed him the ride would be free. but since he charged me for the work i am returning the favor. and he will want to drive it as there will be nothing like the monte around here.

Originally Posted by jyardgirl

thanks tech. but i do not know what to do with him some days. he is a good kid but he seems to like to push my buttons. and there are days that i push back verbally. but when it comes to my car and him helping me it is a battle. so i figure out how i can do things by myself. when it is done and he wants to take it somewhere i am going to charge him for the privelege. then when he complains i am going to tell him that if he had helped me when i needed him the ride would be free. but since he charged me for the work i am returning the favor. and he will want to drive it as there will be nothing like the monte around here.

Just as long as it doesn't get wrapped around a phone pole or rip the side out of another vehicle. Been there, done that, just ask tech

as far as i have heard in my small town charlie is a excellent driver. he goes just below the speed limit and takes off at stop lights like he has some sense. now what he will do in the monte is yet to be seen.

Same story here,3 boys,3 girls.oldest (boy) just turned 36,youngest (boy) will turn 21 in August. I make all of the boys do their own repairs with my guidance although none of em are what you could call mechanics, but at least I think they could get by without having to pay a mechanic when I'm gone. None of em would have anything to do with going out to the shop to help me or learn. And every one of em when they started into their teens seemed to think I was the dumbest SOB on earth. But I look back to when I was a teen and remember I didn't want to hang with or help my Dad either, it just wasn't kewl. Back when they lived at home trying to get them to do something around the house that involved work was like pulling teeth,although now I could call em up to help with something and they would be right over, cept that youngest one whos still living @ home. He still requires a club to the head every once in a while. Far as the weed, it befugles the hell out of me why you can buy a 5th of whiskey, but go to jail over a joint.