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The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his
driveway. After a fruitless search, he went inside and told his mother
the lens was nowhere to be found.

Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the
lens in her hand.

"How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.

"We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking
for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."

 

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Re: [OT] contact lens -->joke<--

badgolferman, 12/21/2005, 7:28:34 AM,
<[email protected]> wrote:

By the way, I will be posting jokes again in a week or so.

Merry Christmas to all y'all.

 

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"badgolferman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his
> driveway. After a fruitless search, he went inside and told his mother
> the lens was nowhere to be found.
>
> Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the
> lens in her hand.
>
> "How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
>
> "We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking
> for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."

AMEN!

Natalie, mother of money-grubbing teens

 

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"badgolferman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]
> The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his
> driveway. After a fruitless search, he went inside and told his mother
> the lens was nowhere to be found.
>
> Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the
> lens in her hand.
>
> "How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
>
> "We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking
> for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."

That is no joke. Absolute fact. Works almost every time.

 

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"Sharx35" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"badgolferman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]
>> The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his
>> driveway. After a fruitless search, he went inside and told his mother
>> the lens was nowhere to be found.
>>
>> Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the
>> lens in her hand.
>>
>> "How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
>>
>> "We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking
>> for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."
>
>That is no joke. Absolute fact. Works almost every time.
>

Sure it is...also it's no good to tell the teenybopper to go out
and look for $150 either cuz she'll be looking for a very slight
inconvenience involving buttering up dear old Dad for 5
minutes...(certainly not 20 hours of working at MacD's...which is
much more correct)
--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

 

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Hard to believe, but true -- "Sharx35" <[email protected]> typed:

>
>"badgolferman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]
>> The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his
>> driveway. After a fruitless search, he went inside and told his mother
>> the lens was nowhere to be found.
>>
>> Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the
>> lens in her hand.
>>
>> "How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
>>
>> "We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking
>> for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."
>
>That is no joke. Absolute fact. Works almost every time.

The way to bypass the mom (or the dad) having to hunt is to put the
teen on an allowance. My kids had to buy their OWN stuff from the time
they were teens -- we provided the money for the essentials, but they
had to decide how and where it was spent. It was amazing how good they
got at bargain hunting when THEY had to stretch the bux, and there
were never any arguments about what brands of clothes, glasses, et al
that had to be bought; those were all their decisions, and they got to
be quite good at deciding when or if the "in" brands were OK or not,
depending on how much money was left for other things if they bought
them or not. I especially liked how the pressure moved from Mom and
Dad to the kids . . . .

They paid their own way through college and bought their own cars, too
(moving the thread to somewhat Toyota related) . . . .

-Don (with independent kids outta the house for good)
--
"What do *you* care what other people think?" --Arline Feynman

 

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Don Fearn <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hard to believe, but true -- "Sharx35" <[email protected]> typed:
>
>>
>>"badgolferman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]
>>> The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his
>>> driveway. After a fruitless search, he went inside and told his mother
>>> the lens was nowhere to be found.
>>>
>>> Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes, returned with the
>>> lens in her hand.
>>>
>>> "How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
>>>
>>> "We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking
>>> for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."
>>
>>That is no joke. Absolute fact. Works almost every time.
>
>The way to bypass the mom (or the dad) having to hunt is to put the
>teen on an allowance. My kids had to buy their OWN stuff from the time
>they were teens -- we provided the money for the essentials, but they
>had to decide how and where it was spent. It was amazing how good they
>got at bargain hunting when THEY had to stretch the bux, and there
>were never any arguments about what brands of clothes, glasses, et al
>that had to be bought; those were all their decisions, and they got to
>be quite good at deciding when or if the "in" brands were OK or not,
>depending on how much money was left for other things if they bought
>them or not. I especially liked how the pressure moved from Mom and
>Dad to the kids . . . .
>
>They paid their own way through college and bought their own cars, too
>(moving the thread to somewhat Toyota related) . . . .
>
>-Don (with independent kids outta the house for good)

Damned good procedure too Don...educates them to the realities, I
did this too, with four, all age grouped within five years (musta
been something in the Toronto air for that period!)
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-Gord.
(use gordon in email)