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December 10, 2006
A glimpse of the future?
Categories: Personal
Sarah and I like to eat at Chili's on Sunday night. We don't go there every Sunday, but probably hit the place once a month. It dates back to when we were looking for houses here and couldn't find anywhere to eat on a Sunday except Chilis; now it's a habit.
Tonight we were eating when four 12-14 year old girls were seated at the table behind us. They were made up and decked out, one with one of those fancy purses that are stupidly expensive but look as if my grandmother made it from the remainents of a quilt (I forget the name brand). The all proceded to order virgin strawberry daiquiri's (execept the "sophisticated" one who ordered a virgin pina colada). I overheard them asking "Virgin means 'without alcohol' right?" They then ordered from the kids menu, making sure each of their totals was under ten bucks. Dinner conversation was who liked who, who was ugly, and who didn't like who. They ended the evening by filling a fry basket with ketchup, barbeque sauce, and ranch dressing.
God was giving me a vision of my parenting future. I was more than a little afraid. I am not sure it's entirely fair that I, who had absolutely no clue about women whatsoever until my wonderful wife had the graciousness to stick it out with me and teach me a few things, am now tasked with raising a girl. I mean, is it acceptable to tell your teenage daughter "You can't be like that, because those type of girls didn't talk to me when I was in high school!"? Probably not.
Posted by Nakia at December 10, 2006 08:01 PM