By Cyndy Wahlgren
February 10, 2016 ·
Ok, SO! We all know how teenage boys LOVE to tease mommy right? And we all know the deep wells of wisdom that spring forth from our 18 year olds. They have an uncanny talent at turning words around and throwing them back at us right? Then they laugh and laugh, WELL :-) I thought I'd give it a go and toss their words around this afternoon, and then I laughed and laughed. I laughed so hard that I had to sit in the car for a bit to calm down from laughing at their exasparation...
So, here is our conversation:
In the back seat was my lil grandson Elliot age 4, who glanced in silence from person to person as we spoke. Jadon, age 12, was in the middle of the back seat occasionally interjecting comments and Joshua Shoemaker age 16, my biggest tease, was behind me on the passenger side.
Josiah, was driving the car giving me his usual speech of driving instructions for mom, enlightening me you know, anyway, as we took this little short cut road through a neighborhood enroute to the gym. He saw only 1 speed limit sign and it read 25 speed limit. That sparked Josiah to inform me of the following:
Josiah Shoemaker "Mom, did you know that if there is no speed limit sign posted the troopers cannot give you a ticket if you speed?"
Mom: "How do you know? And why are you thinking of that?"
Josiah: "I just know, you can fight it and take it to court if they try to give you one."
Jadon said: "What if there is one sign facing the other way?"
Josiah: "If you didn't see it, you can fight it."
Jadon: "Well, why would you do that? Why wouldn't you just obey the sign that is on the other side of the street? They have a reason for setting it at that speed."
Josiah: "Cause we didn't see it."
Jadon: "Well I saw it, all I had to do was turn my head."
Joshua chimed in and said, "Dude, if someone comes up from Washington state, and doesn't live here and doesn't see the sign, they can't ticket them."
I saw my chance, MOM said: "What if they come up from Florida? Or Colorado? Can they get a ticket?"
Josh: "No! You know what I mean, if they are on a road carrying a posted sign, they can get a ticket, but if they are on a road without carrying a sign, they can't."
Mom: "Who's carrying the sign? Where did they get the signs?"
Jadon: "Well they had to have sawed them off their posts."
Mom: "Were the people with the signs from Washington or Florida?"
Josiah Shoemaker dropped out of the conversation saying, "Oh BOY!"
Joshua Shoemaker said, "No! You know what I mean if the....AUGH! Nevermind!" By then we were at the gym and lil Elliot was laughing along with Gramma. OH! That was fun!
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