We started out our evening knowing we were in for a long walk. The idea was to hit up a second hand and come home with a couple pair of shorts, catch something to eat along the way. Instead we went a bit crazy and bought an awful lot of stuff. Four games, a dozen movies, about ten cookbooks, a ton of Garfield titles, a nice quality knife, miscellaneous kitchen gadgets, a half dozen shirts and finally a couple pairs of shorts.
It must have looked funny seeing us walk home last night, two cats humping home big bags full of loot clearly marked Goodwill. At times I felt a bit guilty, as only a 51 year old man can. For a moment or two I felt that no teenager should be subjected to this, but then I thought about all those walks I took when I was a young man and knew it wasn't going to kill him. Besides, we tucked in at King's Teriyaki and ate well before our long slog home. I distributed the load so that he wouldn't have a hellacious and discouraging walk. We stopped when we needed to and I salted the walk with the promise of a comedy and dessert once we got home.
We came in the door and plopped our bags down in the kitchen and broke out the scale. Since the movies and books were my jones I carried the bulk of weight, but still, he carried almost twenty pounds worth of goods over two and half miles. I was proud of him. That's the kind of thing that builds character and bone mass. All to the good. And man, you should see those shirts he got! Wow!
Salud!
It must have looked funny seeing us walk home last night, two cats humping home big bags full of loot clearly marked Goodwill. At times I felt a bit guilty, as only a 51 year old man can. For a moment or two I felt that no teenager should be subjected to this, but then I thought about all those walks I took when I was a young man and knew it wasn't going to kill him. Besides, we tucked in at King's Teriyaki and ate well before our long slog home. I distributed the load so that he wouldn't have a hellacious and discouraging walk. We stopped when we needed to and I salted the walk with the promise of a comedy and dessert once we got home.
We came in the door and plopped our bags down in the kitchen and broke out the scale. Since the movies and books were my jones I carried the bulk of weight, but still, he carried almost twenty pounds worth of goods over two and half miles. I was proud of him. That's the kind of thing that builds character and bone mass. All to the good. And man, you should see those shirts he got! Wow!
Salud!
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