One summer day I was out running errands with my younger two kids while Mr. College Bound stayed home to mow the lawn--far from his favorite chore.
Then I got the text: "The mower took out the cap for the sewer thing" (the outdoor sewer cleanout--I guess the cap wasn't screwed on tight enough, so it wasn't as low to the ground as it usually is.)
I asked him if he could find any pieces. I got back: "Well its gone. The pipe has no cap."
Then I told him that we needed pieces so we could figure out what size the replacement should be. "Its. Gone." (Mr. College Bound apparently has little use for apostrophes.)
This is not the first time my son has run stuff over. He mows like I vacuum. If you leave your Legos on the carpet, and I have given you fair warning that I'm vacuuming later, then it's bye-bye Legos. He ran over a Fisher-Price "Little People" ship captain once, decapitating it. He's got a sick sense of humor, so he kept that captain's head. When he still had a fish, it was in the fish tank. A couple of weeks ago, it was a tennis ball, which he neatly cut in half. The next week, it was shredded all over the lawn.
I think it's safe to say that he doesn't have a career in landscaping ahead of him.
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