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Re: Parents and Lego (was Re: Castle Ctuniie-My first castle MOC!!!!!)
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Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:03:31 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Benjamin Medinets writes:
> My mom always gives me the "what for" looks when I am seen bringing in another
> box of lego...or when another arrives....
> 
> (I finally decided to have all my foreign shipments come to my mailbox, at
> least she can stop hounding me about them!!!) :)

Back in 11th grade, I snuck Lego out from the attic and secretly played with
it in my room. Not much of it, but enough to have some fun with. I hid it
from my friends & family so nobody would know...

One day, my mom came into my room, rather annoyed with me, insisting I clean
it up. She began stuffing things into arbitrary drawers, insisting as she
did so that I had plenty of empty drawer space to "put this mess into". I
tried in vain to shoo her out so she wouldn't happen upon the Lego. But I
was too late. She opened up a drawer, saw a box full of minifigs, and
stopped dead.

What should she think? I mean, your typical high school student's room. What
might you expect to find hiding in a drawer, purposefully away from parental
eyes? Condoms? Drugs? Playboys? Cigarettes? No-- Lego. Who ever saw that
coming? How the heck are you supposed to be mad at your 16 year old son
who's playing with Lego behind your back? What are you *supposed* to say to
that as a parent?

She looked at me, looked at the drawer, closed it, told me "...well... clean
this room up!", and walked out. Cherry red is a pretty red color. So is
cranberry red. But I don't think either of those colors adequately describes
the red that my face turned at that moment. In retrospect, though, I find it
absoloutely hilarious that such a wierd turn of events ever happened.

DaveE

Oh, FUT .people btw



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  Re: Parents and Lego (was Re: Castle Ctuniie-My first castle MOC!!!!!)
 
The only way I found to solve this problem was to make my mother (and the rest of my family) accomplices! Of course, I am 36 now, so my mother no longer goes through my drawers - also because she lives on another continent! But here is a good story. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.people)

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  Re: Parents and Lego (was Re: Castle Ctuniie-My first castle MOC!!!!!)
 
(...) ........LOL!!! Sounds like my mother.... I'm in Anthony Sava's position...post college situation. My mom always gives me the "what for" looks when I am seen bringing in another box of lego...or when another arrives.... (I finally decided to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.castle)

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