It’s Never a Good Thing When…
your daughter calls you and the first words out of her mouth are, “Promise me you won’t get mad…”
Me: “Ummm… I can’t promise you that. What’s wrong?”
Sounds huge doesn’t it? She goes on to relate a story about her (nearly) 2 year old phone. Its display suddenly went black after she hung up, and taking the battery in and out didn’t make it restore to normal.
Me: Why would I get mad at that?
Her: I didn’t want you to think I did it on purpose.
Me (In my head: Picturing an Office Space printer bashing moment, only with her, and her phone.) We’ll have to have the techno guy (the hubby) look at that when you get home.
There for one moment, I had visions of her: in jail, pregnant or in a car wreck. Thank goodness it was only her cell phone display… hmmmm reverse psychology anyone? Naaaawww…
July 28th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
LOL
July 28th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
That is funny. I used to pull that stuff on my mom all the time. It’s the shock value method. I tell mom I’m pregnant or gay, she freaks out and then it is much easier to say ‘just kidding, I only got a C in Trig’.
Ahh, I had my mom so broken in that one time I came home from a date and brought a stray kitten home with me, which I put in my room. I knew she wouldn’t want me to keep the cat, but I used the shock value method to get my way. I called her in to the kitchen and asked her not to get mad, but that I needed to talk to her about something serious. She was so relieved to hear about the kitten, that I got to keep it. Hehe.
Go Ashlyn!
July 29th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I never used this tactic on my mom, but I’ll have to be on the lookout for it with my daughter. Thanks for the tip.
July 29th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I never used that on purpose, but I did get my mom worked up a couple times when I prefaced a confession with it. Somehow I never figured out that it could be used to get something I wanted.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Unfortunately whenever I had to use that type of phrase something really bad was actually going on.
Like the time when my cat Dave fell off a shelf and tried to catch himself by grabbing the side of my sister’s face.
Or, the time a drunk driver hit me head on and I thought I was going to bleed to death before the ambulance could arrive.
Those incidents turned out a LOT better than expected, but the phrase still always scares my mom to death!
Brian
July 30th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
What a smart girl! LOL! I wonder where she learned that trick from?
I have no idea. I was certainly the picture of innocent perfection when I was a teen. ():)