{"id":3181,"date":"2011-03-18T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:46:30","slug":"day-3-the-toys-are-out-of-the-pram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/03\/day-3-the-toys-are-out-of-the-pram\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenwolf Day 3 &#8211; The Toys are out of the pram."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teen3.tif\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3183\" title=\"teen3\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teen3.tif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3185\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teen3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3185\" title=\"teen3\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teen3-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teen3-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teen3-639x1024.jpg 639w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/teen3.jpg 1005w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laundry Basket Life - de rigeur you know<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Incandescent with rage I\u2019m afraid.<\/p>\n<p>All jocularity about the teenwolf and his laundry habits are over.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, on discovering a massive pile of rubbish and clothes in his room I took a deep breath and retreated to the kitchen to regain my composure. When he came swashbuckling in sleepy faced I asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So any clothes made it into your laundry basket?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A rhetorical question.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No\u2019 \u2013 doesn\u2019t give a toss.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Why not?\u2019 ill disguised fury escaping by means of hisses from the gaps between my teeth<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Just not quite there with it yet.\u2019 He toyed with his toast.<\/p>\n<p>Eyeballs out on stalks I fought the urge to grab him and stare into his sleepy teenwolf face and screech \u2018WHAT !!!!!!!!!?????????\u2019<\/p>\n<p>So I clanged things down in the kitchen, stomped about, and behaved like\u2026.well like a teenager I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Of course he didn\u2019t notice.<\/p>\n<p>I drove him to school (because I am of course a complete sap) then half way down the road to the school he criticised my driving.<\/p>\n<p>Braver men have died for less.<\/p>\n<p>I put the brakes on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Out!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What? \u2018 seemed to give a toss now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Out!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018NO?\u2019 Volume liable to shatter windscreen<\/p>\n<p>\u2018No.\u2019 too cool for his own good if you ask me<\/p>\n<p>\u2018OK, \u2018 I said sounding rather more Basil Fawlty than I would have liked \u2018 I am turning left at these lights. You can get out here or I can drive you home and you can walk all the way from there\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Why are you going left?\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018Because.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Because what?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Just because.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I could feel my temples throbbing and all past imaginings of being a cool Zen type mother were long gone.<\/p>\n<p>He flung the door open and got out. The door slammed. We didn\u2019t exchange even a glance.<\/p>\n<p>Well that was a shit start to the day. Though I have worked out where I will be when he comes home.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how long it will take him to notice. I could be some time.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incandescent with rage I\u2019m afraid. All jocularity about the teenwolf and his laundry habits are over. 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