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| This is no pathetic camel. This stinker sweats for his chow all day long. |
At
the dinner table this afternoon, I explained to the kids that one of the
reasons we’re teaching them how to work for their spending money is that we
don’t want them to become pathetic adults. Then the kids, of course, wanted to know
what a pathetic adult is.
Because
this conversation was never going to reach ears outside our kitchen, I
explained that a pathetic adult is someone whose parents give them too much
money, so they don’t have to figure out how to earn their own money. Instead,
they just sit in the basement all day and play video games because they think
working an actual job is too hard.
“So,
pathetic means you get to play video games all the time?” Halen asked.
Abu
Halen intervened here, explaining that yeah, you get to play video games all
day long, but you don’t get a family, because girls are not attracted to guys
who do nothing but play video games all day long, so pathetic guys have a hard
time finding someone willing to marry them.
“. .
. But can’t the pathetic guys just marry pathetic girls?” He asked.
“And
what—have pathetic babies and pathetic children?”
Halen
nodded.
And
what could we say? The kid had a point.