the inexplicable irresistible male urge to dig a hole
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I was still young when I first stayed out too late one evening fucking around with some friends in the neighborhood and my mom grounded me when I got home. Trouble was she didn't realize that "grounding" someone is an idiom and I thought she was going to bury me alive. Pretty sure she didn't understand why I was crying.
"I made you, I can unmake you."
Do I have a sibling I didn't know about?
"I brought you in this world, I can take you out of it."
I grew up with that idiom and understanding what it meant, and then I went to flight school where being grounded has a more literal meaning. So my question: Was the childhood punishment named after disqualification from flight status or was the term in use before 1903 with a different origin?
Mom fucked around and found out.
... how babies are made.
I had a similar situation as a kid, but I moved into the attic for the night with flashlights and a gameboy. They ended up calling the cops because they thought I ran away. Then I really got in trouble!
My parents couldn't use that line with me. I was a scout; I'd just make a leanto and get a merit badge. 😤
I feel like there was an episode of Malcolm in the Middle like this, but just with Reese. But it’s been a long time since I’ve watched it.
Different episode?
Reese and Malcom are throwing a football in the house. Lois tells them to stop.
They end up leaning out of two windows, throwing the ball while technically 'inside the house.'
Reese = This isn't fun any more."
Malcom ="Shut up, Reese. We're making a point here!"
Kids will always find the most complicated way to avoid the simplest task 😭
I mean the kids are smarter than the mother here, because the kids think logically meanwhile the mother demands things without explaining them.
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