Tonight while studying diligently and, hopefully, fruitfully for tomorrow's Old Testament final on prophets, I noticed the sound of a movie blaring in the other room. Imagine my horror when I walked in and saw Ethan and Brenton watching ... High School Musical 3. Egads! Have the lads no shame! Julie, Claire and MerriGrace were watching it and I'm OK with that. But my teenage boys! Taylor, fortunately, would have no part of this travesty, this scandalous, repulsive behavior. He walked by shaking his head making disparaging comments about their apparent lack of manliness.
I'm not sure if Brenton and Ethan were caught in a momentary bout of weakness, if they were bored out of their skull (Brenton should not have been; he has the same Old Testament final tomorrow.) or what exactly was going on. I just know that only the night before they were playing football video games on PS2 and delighting in the bone-crushing hits in the game. And best of all, when they scored to go up 42-7 at halftime, they kicked on onside kick! Later they joked about how after their team -- which was the visitor -- cleaned the other team's clock they would load the opposing team's cheerleaders on the bus and burn down the home team's stadium on the way out of town! (Editor's note: Matthew...please. Is this appropriate? Author's reply: Very much so. Sherman left no doubt when he marched to Atlanta. Same goes for PS2 football.) Clearly it's time to man up around here. I'm breaking out the boxing gloves. Or maybe I'll have them spend more time with their little brothers, who man up routinely by parading around shirtless and sitting around their room at bedtime seeing who can pass gas the loudest.
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ReplyDeleteI honestly don't know what to think. The fact that it's also the third sequel scares me! Passing gas would probably be more educational.... Haha
ReplyDeleteHow old are Brenton and Ethon
ReplyDeleteI just found out that my son, Jonathan has watched this movie with your two lads! (Egads, indeed!) What's the deal here? Now the Sabo clan is sucking in innocents from other families? Into this...this thesmiatic (yeah, yeah, I know, bad spelling, literary license? -- you're a journalist, you can figure it out.) pool of… well travesty. What are you teaching these guys!!?? I hope your post heading "Man up!! Now!! (Can I use two exclamation points!?) was, and is a command to your two youths to exercise better judg...hey that's what you should do, just have them go out and do some hard exercise next time they have the hankering (is that really a word?) to watch these teen musicals. Some manly pushups might do the trick. Next time (and I sincerely hope there is not a next time) you catch them in this heinous act you can just shout out "GIVE ME 50!!) Man up indeed!
ReplyDeletewow....Brenton, Ethan. I'm sorry, but thats sad!!!! stay strong Taylor!! :)
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