Reply #163: I forgot about the LYING.. you reminded me..

[SoCalDem]

He would tell the most outrageous lies when he didn't even NEED to..

One time my husband commented on our neighbor's new car. Our son piped up with this gem..

The car in their driveway was a friend's car. The friend had borrowed the neighbors' van because they needed it for a long trip and their car was too samll. We just said.. Okay.. flash forward a couple of weeks. my husband ran into the wife in the store, and she said.."How do you like our new car?".. We confronted him on his "tall tale" and he INSISTED that he was right..:eyes:

We would also work with him on his homework, he would have it DONE, and yet would NOT turn it in..

By the time he was 12 he was almost 6 ft tall and wore grown up sizes.. I begged the school district to hold him back, but they would not.. They just kept advancing him, and consequently he eventually fell hopelessly behind. The tutors were "stupid" and he didn't "need" them.. My husband would drop him off at school, watch him enter the building, and by 10 AM I would get an automated call saying that he was "absent"..

It's no wonder I had a "nervous breakdown" and my hair is mostly gray :)

I do have hope for him, and he has been drug-free and employed for 7 years, so things are a lot better than when he was young..