<p>I am really loving these clueless son stories, I just want to give every one of these boys a big mom-hug. My favorite is still the lone phonecall I got from my oldest during his first week of college last year, which lasted about 20 seconds:</p>
<p>“Hi, Mom, I’m running to a meeting now, I have to list an emergency contact on my registration forms, would that be you? Yes? OK thanks bye!”</p>
<p>I still wonder who else he was thinking about putting down…</p>
<p>Re: Wrist corsages. All the girls around here wear them with spaghetti straps and strapless. They have an elastic attached to go around the wrist. I have never seen one pinned on.</p>
<p>MotherofTwo: That’s what I had explained to my son, but evidently he was not at all interested on how the flowers were to be worn or listening to me either. I had even warned him to remove the pins that were included before giving it to her, so that she didn’t stick herself when she slipped it on her wrist. Even though I had explained it to him, he remained clueless, but I did think it was sweet that he didn’t want to embarrass her by giving her a flower “she couldn’t wear.”</p>
<p>Raising hand to add clueless swear-it’s-true story. One summer not too long ago S#3 asks, “Where’s S #1?” Answer, “He’s been away at camp for 3 weeks!”
Honest. It’s in our “Classics of S#3 file.”</p>
<p>momof3sons takes the prize! That’s priceless!</p>
<p>(co-worker from the cubicle down the hall just came in to see what was so funny 
)</p>
<p>Forgive me for injecting a political note, but I’m listening to President Bush’s press conference and I think he could win the contest for No. 1 in this category.</p>
<p>“Well, I thought we were going to do okay yesterday. Shows you what I know.”</p>
<p>Clueless.</p>
<p>OK OK I have to tell:</p>
<p>S1’s award in the superlatives department – Most Likely To Be Out To Lunch!</p>
<p>He thought it meant that he was most likely to be at the deli across the street from the high school having lunch …</p>
<p>cnp55-you win!</p>
<p>I love that one, cnp55! It reminds me of something I had forgotten about that my S did (since there are tooooo many to recall them all!) During grade school he had to write an essay about whether it was better to be booksmart or streetsmart (teacher was introducing the gifted kids to Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Seven Kinds of Smart, etc etc). He wrote that streetsmart was best since you could always find the street you were looking for and would never get lost…</p>
<p>Almost got it - or, perhaps he is just wiser than his years??? Nah…I forgot, he has Aspergers, they take everything literally!! [but doesn’t this just go to show why there might be such a higher incidence of things like Aspergers/autism, and ADD among males? Social cluelessness. It’s in the genes…]</p>
<p>[Although, guys, you could have a field day with us gals in other areas where we are often clueless–I for one certainly fit the female stereotype of being mechanically/spatially challenged. Who wouldda guessed that “thingamajiggy” could have SO many definitions??? Not to give you ideas but fair’s fair…]</p>
<p>booksmart, streetsmart, half-a$$ed? </p>
<p>DS was writing a short story in freshman year, I think. He had his protagonist complaining that someone’s notion was “half-asked.” When he asked me to read it over, I told him what the word <em>really</em> was. He was dumbfounded (plus half-asked really worked in the context of his story; something about the kid not really finding out what he needed to find out). He was afraid to use the correct word in his story. I thought it might be okay in context. He went with “half-baked.” I don’t even want to know if he correctly understood what that meant ;).</p>
<p>One summer not too long ago S#3 asks, “Where’s S #1?” Answer, “He’s been away at camp for 3 weeks!”
Honest. It’s in our “Classics of S#3 file.”</p>
<p>that is hilarious
Interesting that so many of the clueless comments revolve around baseball “americas” past time
We have one too, re baseball one of my favorite stories is when after a Seattle Mariner game and we are waiting for the players to come out ( with younger Ds mitt), Jamie Moyer ( who is now on the Phillies) takes a hold of it.
She glares at him ( she can glare too!) and pulls it away. He shrugs and goes on his way.
I admit she was only about 6 or so & he was fairly new to the Mariners at the time- but still</p>
<p>But one I really couldn’t get over was that she is so interested in Marine Biology but doesn’t know who Jacque Cousteau was!
So I wanted to remedy that ( we don’t have cable or really even good reception- but this was worth getting some DVDs for)</p>
<p>I found some- but I haven’t been able to bring myself to order them- because of instead of Cousteaus own wonderful narration
They have released them with… Mel Gibson doing the narration</p>
<p>See now emeraldkity4, if it had involved baseball S#3 would have been there saying, “Mr. Moyer, can you please sign my glove?” THAT, he gets.</p>
<p>Helimom: That;s the only reason I know who Darryl Strawberry is, too! My brother and I were raised on the Simpsons, so we can quote like mad from the show. I remember when we were younger (8? 9?) we quoted the show nonstop until my mom had to leave them room… and then we continued quoting! Can’t begin to count the number of things I’ve learned from the Simpsons (helped me understand Hamlet, it did). I always have to shake my head in disbelief when people say TV isn’t educational.</p>
<p>Thanks for the good laugh everybody.</p>
<p>Makes me miss my boy even more. I should say boys - second son is LIVING the school play these days…Empty nest!</p>
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<p>We’ve been watching old Babylon 5 episodes and there’s a character who quotes Hamlet nearly every episode. Another one is more partial to Macbeth.</p>
<p>weenie,
I commiserate as I have two boys living the school play these days. I thought we were the only ones with a fall musical! Curtain goes up tomorrow.</p>
<p>A fresh teenage son story from tonight, this time with #2:</p>
<p>Dad: What test are you studying for?
Son2: History
Dad: Really? What period?
Son2: Second</p>
<p>Dear Cyberfriends- Life has regained conscious meaning. I am not walking this alone. Went to a music exhibition/lesson out of state yesterday with DS#1. (Oh that D could mean any number of things on any given day). So, I told him to pack for an overnight. When we go to leave, he assures me that his instrument and mouthpiece are in the car, which they were. And is your suitcase in the car, I asked. “Ohh” he said…and went to the back seat of the car and carried out pants, and a shirt he had “packed”. “Were you planning on just walking into the hotel with those clothes in your hand and asking for a room?” “I dunno?” Call me crazy, but I like to use a suitcase to keep my stuff in when I go on an overnight. And sometimes I take a change of underwear and a toothbrush too. Obsessed with details, probably not. Scared for his future…you bet your life I am.</p>
<p>My S packs for overnights by throwing his toothpaste and toothbrush and orthodonture rubber bands into a used plastic vegetable bag. Then that bag, along with a pair of clean boxers and a clean t-shirt, goes into a brown paper grocery bag. Silly me, I thought my daughter’s matching pink LLBean duffles were the norm. Now I hear from momnipotent that my S is actually quite sophisticated in the boy world.</p>
<p>Rick T. That is hysterical. That reminds me of that comic, Steven Wright, I think was his name, who had nonsensical humor v. similar to your son’s. Oh wait, your son was serious:).</p>
<p>I love to browse the parents thread and see what you crazy creatures think up.</p>
<p>I read RickTyler’s story four times before I could figure out what his S said wrong.</p>