The Buckets by Greg Cravens for September 08, 2011

I don’t need no steenken school. Hey, this mower has no tank or engine.

Parents often share entertaining stories about their teenage kids with me. Most of the stories revolve around the transitional stage of life when a young person’s assumptions run smack into oncoming reality. I imagine we all feel we did pretty well navigating those tricky turns, but I also imagine we’re all pretty careful not to ask our parents how brilliant we were doing it.

I can’t speak to the trauma of my teenage years, I’ve seemed to have blacked out those years.

Between 12 and 19 I knew that I knew more then adults did. When I turned 20 I suddenly realized, I was stupid and didn’t realize anything! When I turned 30 all 357 days ago, I realized I know a lot more then I thought… . . I may not know it all, but I know what I know. ~ Phil Main. . . I don’t know everything, I just know a little bit about a lot of things ~ Allan VanderSpek, 2010.

Just send him to military school, dad :D

gotta lean somthing

What choice you got now Toby?

I currently have 3 teens and a 12 year old in my house. There is a lot of realizing the reality of the world going on. Sometimes it is comical, other times quite painful. Now that they are in school, have homework, jobs, and shudder responsibilities and bills, they are far more understanding when I tell them I am exhausted. Wait til they have their own kids he he he he……..

One story I was told recently involved a man’s daughter upset about how she was treated around the house. so, she said, she was Moving Out. The father told her she couldn’t do that. She said, “Oh, you’re going to stop me?” He said, “No. It’s just that you don’t make enough money to move out. There’s rent, and phone and utilities and cable and insurance. You’ve never paid any of those things, and you just didn’t plan for them.” She said she would move out anyhow. After all, HE paid for all those things, so there’s no reason that she couldn’t. Apparently, math didn’t enter into it for her. Not the only story I’ve heard with those kinds of horrific revelations.

If I’m right Toby is 15?

He hasn’t got long before he leaves!

xxx

@jOhndrAkEOh yes, I cannot wait. Have you ever watched Bill Cosby’s “Himself” when he talks about his parents with the grand babies? He says “Those are not the same people I grew up with. Those are old people trying to get into Heaven.” One of the all time best comedy albums (showing my age) ever. They have it on DVD now. I highly recommend anyone with children watch this with their kids. Universally funny.

@ widgetsx- I like Cosby but preferred the Bob Newhart comedy albums.

@jOhndrAkE You are welcome. I need my memory kick-started more often than not these days. @ Number 9 Absolutely. That is why we all in here love The Buckets! @ Llywus42 I love all of the older comedians.

Its amazing what happens at work and what happens on today’s strip (and the comments) Today a number of us said goodbye to a fellow employee. He was there when the building opened at age 18. It is now 37 years later and he is 55. This is the guy that helped me out for the 10-12 years before I joined the company and the last 10 years since I joined.. He was at the counter for forms then at the counter for the mail drop. He delivered the mail, he would call us if a parcel was dropped off (after policy changed and mail had to be sent elsewhere before it made it back to you). He knows everyone! .What most of us ended talking about was – what did we know at age 18? How wrong were we? And yes, we were sooooo wrong!