Prom Nightmare

Pop quiz hot-shot: Your 17-year-old tells you on Monday night he needs money for prom tickets cause he asked a girl to go and she said yes. Tuesday night you find out the prom is in 3 days and Wednesday is the last day to buy tickets and there is no money in the budget for this last-minute expense… What do you do? What do you do??!!

Well, if the 17-year-old in question is my hapless step-son, notorious for misinformation and bad decisions, I say NO, along with an accompanying hour lecture on the consequence of his piss-poor planning, done mostly for the husband’s benefit, as he was looking like he wanted to cave in and say yes. Which is real easy for him to do because saying yes would leave me having to figure out which Paul I was going to have to rob to pay Peter (when the bills came due) and it’s not like his dad was going to play party planner, shopper and taxi driver, since he would just escape it all being at work. So no. I do not volunteer. I really dislike these moments when I am cast into the role of evil stepmother once again…