Kids now a days think the world revolves around them, no matter what age they are. I have four kids and each of them expect me to jump when they want something. However, when I ask them to do something I have to ask them more than 4 times, at this point I am ticked off .

Well going back to teenagers, my eldest child “the Big One” has a best friend, T, they have been close friends since freshmen year. T is an ok kid but man she is a pain in my ass! Every chance she gets she uses what I call the Trump card, meaning if things go wrong it is because she is black. T normally gets into trouble with her parents constantly which drives me crazy because she has my kid in the middle all the time.

T doesn’t live that far from us so when she misses the school bus, she calls for a ride and her mom or dad drive her to my house and I take her. I don’t mind taking her once in awhile but it is starting to look like it is going to be a habit. Twice she comes to my house without calling to ask for a ride, the first time I open the garage door to see a shadow standing there scaring the shit out of me, the other time I had the garage door open and forgot something in the house so I ran in to get it as I am coming out she comes out of the van, again scaring the shit out of me. Today I am pulling out of my garage and here comes a car flying down the street, and zooms onto my driveway, once again it is T, and once again her alarm didn’t go off (SIGH).

So I get home, make the boy his lunch and start working, my phone rings at 7:40 it is her mother asking if T left her phone in my van. WHAT? YOU ARE CALLING ME AT THIS TIME FOR A FUCKIN’ PHONE? My two smaller kids were still sleeping, and I have do idea what the hell your pain in the ass daughter left in my van. Well the mother is coming to get it so here I go looking for the damn phone which to me T doesn’t need it for school but whatever. Again my phone rings and it is the mother again saying that she is 20 seconds from my house, and now one of my girls is now up. Before she can ring my doorbell (because I know she would) I go and wait outside for her. Now T is a kid that never listens (she gets this from her mother) and then wants people to feel sorry for her, I told the big one that I am getting really tired of this friend of hers and I will say something to her because she does not want to me a thorn in my side.

Her parents gave her one of their cars once she got her license and told her several times not to drive the back road to get to our house, well of course since she knows everything she ignored her parents and next thing you know she drives into a ditch which we all thing that she was driving a little to fast hit a pot hole (tons on that road) and lost control of the car enough to run into a ditch. Her stepdad fixed the tire but refuses to fix the bumper or mirror on the car, so she is whinning about that. I told her it serves her right not listening to her folks, I too would not be fixing the big ones car if she did something stupid like that. This girl is so irresponsible it is driving me nuts.

Just needed to get this off my chest, now I can get back to work.