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Parenting & Family > Divorce > The Answer of Avoidance
 

The Answer of Avoidance

I was over at Draco's blog reading his post about facial hair. It totally prompted me to "dig up" an old post.





This is from October 2007



My 12 year old son's stepmother had him cornered not that long ago while she attempted to get him to answer a question about me with a response that suited her agenda of making me look bad.

Side note:
My ex-husband and his wife continually sign the kids that I share joint physical custody with up for nonstop sports all year long without any consent or input from me nor any regard for what I or the kids may want to do when they are with me. Sometimes I am unable to comply with their plans for my week with the kids. Most of the time, I go ahead with it for the sake and peace of my kids but God forgive me when I make wholesome family plans during my children's time with me that doesn't include the animosity and negativity of my ex-husband and his overbearing wife packed into hot gyms and cold ice rinks.

So the conversation went something like this:

STEPMOM: "So... what do you think about your Mother not letting you go to hockey this weekend?"

Side note:
We were taking the kids to an indoor water park resort for a weekend getaway in the dead of winter... I know... "terrible parents".

My 12 year old son stood there trying not to answer the question because his answer would NOT be what his step mom was hoping to hear. He was excited about the water park, but couldn't tell her the truth because that would make her mad. He wasn't going to lie. So instead of answering her question, and with the intent of changing the subject, he looked at her and said...

"Are you trying to grow a mustache?"

The story looses something as it's told in writing as opposed to my son (oblivious to the hilarity of his comment) innocently telling my family about it. He was not trying to be mean. He does not know why we find it so funny. He answered her question with a question of his own to deflect the attention away from the current uncomfortable inquest from her.

Any time someone in our family (parents, kids, sister, aunts, uncles... even friends) asks an uncomfortable question or if we simply don't know how to answer one another, or want an easy chuckle... we answer with "Are you trying to grow a mustache?"

It has become our choice answer of avoidance. And it makes us laugh every time one of us utters it.



posted on Aug 7, 2008 2:38 PM ()

Comments:

I LOVE this…good digging up...
comment by dazeymae on Aug 9, 2008 11:40 AM ()
I remember this post! And it still made me laugh...
comment by janetk on Aug 8, 2008 11:35 AM ()
I like to tell people they have a little "booger" right there... while I stare at their nose.
comment by meranda on Aug 8, 2008 9:17 AM ()
LOVE this
comment by firststarisee on Aug 8, 2008 4:47 AM ()
Good for him!
comment by nittineedles on Aug 7, 2008 9:23 PM ()
Is there anyway something can be done about this? I mean your poor kids!! Seems like emotional trauma to them. She sure fits the *Evil Stepmom*
comment by texastar on Aug 7, 2008 9:04 PM ()
That is HILARIOUS!
comment by mellowdee on Aug 7, 2008 6:30 PM ()
Sharp thinking, kiddo!
comment by marta on Aug 7, 2008 5:44 PM ()
That made me laugh...I have to do that all the time with clients at work...they ask some strange questions...
comment by elfie33 on Aug 7, 2008 4:56 PM ()
that is too funny...
Man I feel for your kids.
comment by kristilyn3 on Aug 7, 2008 2:44 PM ()

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