So I’m on my laptop this evening and I notice that Daughter #1 has posted not one, but two away messages. Is everyone familiar with this phenomena? For the uninitiated, away messages are little notes letting the folks on your buddy list know that you are unavailable. When I am on the computer and don’t want to receive instant messages, I will post an away message. These crazy kids of mine post away messages all the time – even when they’re not on the computer. Sometimes it will say, out or at the barn or eating dinner! You get the idea. I find this completely perplexing. If you aren’t at home, why have the message posted? Why is this necessary? What is the world coming to? Is it the youth of America, or am I an old fart?
To get back to my story ….. Daughter #1 has posted two away messages – she is watching ice skating on television and is nowhere near the computer. I turn to Daughter #2 and this is our conversation:
- me: ‘Why does your sister have up two away messages?’
- d#2: ‘I hate it when she does that!’
- me: ‘You hate it when she puts up an away message?’
- d#2: ‘I just don’t understand the point of it.’
- me: ‘I would have thought that you, of all people, would understand’
- d#2: ‘I only put up one away message – putting up two is just stupid.’
- me: ‘So one is okay but two is stupid??’
- pause …..
- d#2: ‘What I do is senseless, what she does is stupid.’
*both of these girls are on the high honor roll, so I know there is some rational thought lurking in there …. somewhere ….
purlingswine 
get with it grandma, it may be senseless, but its what us teenagers do!
Aren’t kids fun? I swear, if my 12-year-old asks “where’s the margerine?” one more time (um, it’s in that HUGE TUB that has the word MARGERINE printed on the side!!!) I’ll just lather him in the stuff and feed him to the dog!
Anyway, I’m jealous of the Pilates machine – I love Pilates, and wish I had time for classes… I have videos, but there’s no teacher telling me not to turn the tape off when it hurts….
LOL Teenagers!