Can I get my around this weekend? SO I can use it for work and some
personal reasons I am willing to for it with my own money and work for it.
You let get on myspace later on our comp with you so I can read my mail and
try to email some of my friends.
These are actual e-mails to Hubby and I from my almost 16 year old son. This is my son who is a freshman in high school, allegedly has no learning disabilities, and is making ALL As! Great education system we have isn't it?!
Can I get my around this weekend? SO I can use it for work and some
personal reasons I am willing to for it with my own money and work for it.
Interpretation: In spite of the recent issues with trust, lying and stealing, may I be allowed to use the cell phone (tract phone) that you confiscated from me last year? (and then reconfiscated when I stole it back but was caught with it, and your "missing" cell phone, when I brought a realistic looking pop gun to Summer school to trade for drugs and the police had to get involved.) I would like to have it while I am mowing lawns in the neighborhood and so I can call and text girls and birth family and who knows who else without your knowledge or approval with no way to check up on me. I will pay for the minutes with the money that I am earning with my "company," which is just a fancy way of saying my friend and I who are willing to do manual labor for anyone in the neighborhood who will pay us.
You let get on myspace later on our comp with you so I can read my mail
and try to email some of my friends.
Interpretation: Because you have put a censor on the kid's computer that won't let me access Myspace, I want you to let me use your computer to access it. I know the only way you will let me access Myspace is if you are sitting right there, because I have many inappropriate friends and have already used the computer to access soft porn, give total strangers my address and phone number and talk to birth family and tell them how to call me and pretend they are someone else. I want you to let me access my e-mail accounts too, but I won't actually ask that directly. I'm hoping that once I'm on the computer you will allow it, and then won't pay attention to the actual e-mails. I also plan to pressure you to try yet again to contact my birth father who no longer responds to my repeated phone calls to his cell phone (I only call him every 3 minutes because I know he's really there and just doesn't want to talk to me). I want to continue to try to bribe him to contact me by sending him recent pictures of myself, and I will vehemently deny that his continued lack of contact bothers me at all.
Isn't it amazing how much two lines of almost incomprehensible, grammatically incorrect text can actually say?
2 comments:
Definitely amazing!
I wonder if our kids are in the same school system. My 4th grader gets all A's and B's but can't write 3 sentences coherently and was "graduated" from speech services even though most of us cannot understand half of what he says!
That's exactly why I took my eldest son out of the public school system after fifth grade and the two youngest went directly into preschool at a good private school that accepts students from pre-K to 12th grade.
My local public school district is a supposed "blue ribbon" school yet I frequently got notes from teachers that were misspelled and practically incomprehensible. One third-grade teacher actually gave my son an "award" for "loarning me his wartch."
i.e. "loaning me his watch."
The quality of education in public schools in my upper middle class town with high property taxes was abysmal. There seemed to be a lot of busywork and much time wasted on assemblies featuring athletes and entertainers and not enough time spent teaching the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic.
The instruction in the private school that we chose for our children was much better. My eldest son won a full academic scholarship to an ivy league college and his sisters are doing very well in grades six and ten. Yes, their text messages are full of abbreviations and teen slang but they're able to express themselves beautifully when they need to and their friends are all good, conscientious kids.
I'd say your son needs to show that he can be trusted before he gets any of those privileges that he's lobbying for. He must have been disappointed to find out that you're on to his game.
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