<p>I get annoyed by a lot of things. I guess I’m turning into an old crank. But what I say and do about a lot of the things that annoy me depend upon the degree of annoyance. When it comes to things in my kids’ lives, it depends on where they are in life. </p>
<p>When they were little kids, I’d be more involved. In high school, I would try to get them to start handling a lot of those things themselves. COllege, I don’t think I even heard or knew about most things, and I had to go blind and deaf to some things. After college… it would have to be a pretty big deal to get involved.</p>
<p>Life threatening, medical issues, I’d be right there. Legal issue, say criminal charges, the same. Danger, again the same. When it comes to lesser impact issues, the chances start to diminish,and frankly that my son’s class has missed two meetings does give me a bit of a twitch, but not enough to do anything about it. I think my son’s a bit too pleased about not having to go to the class, and I might have made a remark about that, but it’s just a blip on my annoyance meter these days. I’m certainly not going to do anything about it.</p>