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Ya gotta love argueing with teenagers.

Spook · 2007-07-18T07:09:28+00:00

This gets long winded but bear with me. Friday night #1 son disappears into the night &, because I start work at 4am Saturday, I go to bed with Big Dog. (That's 7.30 for those who don't live in Newcastle) 10.45, #1 son turns up in a blind panic. His mates car has packed it in at Belmont, he's come home to get the jumper leads & his oil light has come on in his '70 just as he hit town, & there's oil all over the engine bay. Relax says I, "take my bus, go & sort your mate & I'll worry about your car tomorrow." 1am, there's a ruckus in the carport, DIRECTLY UNDER MY BEDROOM. The grand plan apparently, was to swap engines with the superbug. The same superbug the very same child crashed on Good Friday. MY SUPERBUG!! "You would like, perhaps, to put a small wager on that?" He's been under the impression, that if he stuffed the 1500, he'd get the 1600. Pity he never bothered asking me. The spare motor is a 1300. You stuff yours, you go smaller. Now the problem with needing to mix DNA to create a child becomes obvious in this situation. The Spook way; Put the kettle on, roll a smoke, figure what the most obvious reason for a problem might be, & formulate a plan of attack. The Damien way; put on a tutu & act like a prima dona. Didn't quite weed all the weak genes out of that one. Now I've got it pegged as the oil cooler. The boy, well, if I'd have let him have the car he wanted instead of making him drive this & rattle, rattle, rattle. Most of it was just a show in front of his mates. For the record, I didn't stop him buying the v6. I told him if he wanted to go against my express wishes, he leaves my house. He woosed out. But the crux of the matter was 1) your not stripping one of my cars to fix yours, & 2) you were never doing it at 2am. I didn't go back to bed. I also didn't touch his car Saturday because i was too tired. Told him to take the fan housing off & see what he could see. I get a very sheepish phone call at work on Sunday. The oil cooler was lose, & take a guess at who put that on. Got home Sunday arvo to a very humble child. The only thing I said to him; "after your song & dance Saturday morning, I'll bet you haven't told your mates this is something YOU f#cked up". He's never likely to. It's nice to come out on top now & then

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squizy Thinking about another dub...maybe

4,082 posts · joined Dec 2002 · 1 Aug 2007, 11:10 pm

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I'm taking notes Spook.....