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The Chicken Breast Delimma

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 8:34am

Do you lie to your SO on matters concerning your SS?

I always prefer being up front and honest with my DW, but when it comes to her son, I sometimes think it is better to lie and avoid the tear-fest that will most likely follow.

Case in point; the other day DW and I decided to just get some chicken dinners from our favorite BBQ chicken restaurant. All the kids love the meals there, so it is usually a hit.

Usually I get two chicken breast dinners (for me and DW) and three chicken nugget dinners (for SS, BS and BD).

While I am standing in line, I get a text from DW saying “SS wants chicken nuggets and a chicken breast”.

Now I had a dilemma.

SS is an extremely wasteful kid. He doesn’t like fries, he doesn’t like the biscuit, he doesn’t like gravy and he doesn’t like cole slaw. All he eats is the nuggets. So DW must figure that since he only eats ⅓ of the meal I buy, I should buy him TWO meals!? I don’t think so!

However, I wasn’t about to call DW and start arguing over the phone with her on this. So I just pretended I never got the text.

When I got home, DW asked if I got her text and I lied and said no.

“What are we gong to do!?” DW says in a panic.

“Huh? What do you mean what are we going to do? Let’s just sit down and eat. IF SS is still hungry, he can make himself toast and Nutella.”

DW and SS both had this dejected look on their faces, like I have committed some crime.

I didn’t care. Well actually I did care because I didn’t like lying, but hey – I saved myself the cost of a meal.

DW on the other hand, out of concern for SS, chose not to eat her meal and waited for SS to finish his nuggets. Then after he was finished his nuggets (and just the nuggets) DW asked if he would like her chicken breast.

SS said yes and eagerly opens up the box and stares quizzically at the BBQ breast.

“How do I eat this?” he asks.

OMG! I practically fell off my chair!

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Submitted by overworkedmom on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 8:42am

LMAO!

I think we all lie at at times about the small stuff that is ridiculous. You know SS won't eat it, so why waste? I do kind of the same thing for me and DH's favorite brick oven pizza place. None of the kids like the pizza there but it is AMAZING. We get them chicken tenders. SS wants his "own" meal. He can't eat it. I get 2 kids meals and split it between the 3 kids. I don't care if SS wants his own Styrofoam box, they split. DH always tells me to get them each one but I never do. I don't care what SS wants. It is unneeded cost and wasteful!

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 8:49am

Exactly my thoughts overworked!

I wouldn't mind paying the extra $10 or even an additional $100 if SS actually ATE the whole damn meal but he has never eaten an entire meal. The only times he has eaten an entire dinner is because he decided to skip lunch and DW would refuse to allow him to eat a snack when he got home from school.

I'm actually on a "dessert strike". Untill ALL the children can eat a whole meal, I refuse to buy desserts.

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Submitted by overworkedmom on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:07am

Not only do they have to eat all the dinner but they have to use good table manners and clean up after dinner! I make 'em work for it Wink

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 8:55am

I do the exact same thing! We have a Grocery App on our phones. While I am at the store, DW will add things to it. Like you said, if it is a necessity, I will buy, but I have HUGE freaking problem with chocolates, cokes and Granola bars which the kids plow through. By my calculations, I buy enough of those to last the week. If it is gone by the second day – guess what – they’ll have to wait until next week. So when DW adds these things to my list, I just say I didn’t get it, or the store was out.

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:33am

It's called OurGroceries.

It's pretty handy. Think of it as a shared file. Anyone who has the app can add/delete things on the grocery list.

DW laughs because whenever I shop, I use it and delete things on the list as I go. So she can tell exactly WHERE I am in the store based on the things I am crossing off the list.

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 10:29am

I just did a quick search and there are several of these apps to choose from. One thing I like about "OurGroceries" is that the app remembers the things you put on your list. So when you start typing in something to the list, you get a pop-up menu that lists previous items you've entered.

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Submitted by Mercury on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:02am

Lol. Yes, I've done this. One time I went to a deli to pick up dinner for the 4 of us because no one wanted to cook or go out to a restaurant together. In the text I received while on my way to the deli, everyone had requested drinks even though we had a good selection of drinks at home and individual sides even though one single order of onion rings or fries was more than enough for at least 4 people. Also, before I even left the house and was taking everyone's orders, Ss requested a full portion of his usual instead of the half portion that he never finishes. I got the 1/2 portions for the wasteful skids, 2 sides for everyone to share, and totally ignored the request for drinks. I don't think any of those things would have bothered me if these kids didn't have such a big problem with wasting food.

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:54am

If I said that, I know what DW would have responded.

"Just buy the two meals and I will reimburse you!"

That's the problem with DW - she doesn't focus on the real issue (SS wasting his meals). She'll just see this as me squawking over the cost of the food.

Hence why I lied in the first place...I just didn't want to go down this path to encounter the debate of Realistic Dinner Expectations VS SS Worship

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Submitted by Willow2010 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:18am

Wow...sounds just like my SS!

1) Normally orders the biggest most expensive thing and then eats 1/4 of it. Same with serving himself. Drives me nuts.

2). "How do I eat this" OMG! My SS told me one time that he did not use face wash because he "did not know how to use it". He was 17!

Do you think they are really that stupid or is it just for attention?

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:42am

>Do you think they are really that stupid or is it just for attention?<

I dunno...Maybe a combination of both? Remember Paris Hilton in "The Simple Life"?

"What's Walmart?"

Oh how we laughed at how ignorant and stupid she sounded on national TV...But the truth is, if you only shopped on Rodeo Drive all your life, you probably wouldn't know what Walmart is either. But then again, it was argued that it was all faked, and that she really DOES know what Walmart is and just said that because it would boost ratings.

It's just like the clothes incidents in the mornings. He says he can't pick out his clothes for himself, when really, he just wants his mother to baby him because he's too lazy to get up and choose clothes for himself.

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Submitted by goincrazy.com on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:26am

Ugh, just reading this irritates me! She seriously didn't eat her chicken just to save it for him?!

SD16 wastes EVERYTHING. We could have Tbone steaks and she will leave chewed up 2/3rds of it on the plate saying it was "too fatty". I STOPPED. I don't cook when she's over and I definitely don't buy shit when she's over. I pay for nothing. Because it just added to the anger and resentment. I handed that wand to FDH and I smartened up. I know you are in a different position but I let FDH know when his kid is over he's in charge of meals- don't ask me. She's rude, wasteful and ungrateful and I wouldn't put up with it from my bio I'm definitely not putting up with it with his.

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Submitted by QueenBeau on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:29am

My question is - did he eat her chicken breast? Or give up when he couldn't figure out how to? LOL

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:46am

DW said "Oh come on SS! You're not seriously going to ask me to cut up that chicken are you?"

SS whined saying he couldn't cut it. DW said something to the extent of "knock it off!". (Forgive me, I was too busy trying to look away because if I paid attention, I would have been laughing my *ss off). SS managed to peel off a piece of chicken, ate it, said he didn't like it and asked to be excused.

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 10:26am

Probably.

But that is my SS for you. I remember once when he was small and we were in a grocery store and saw these piles of apples. He said "Hey Mom! Look! They named a fruit after a computer!"

It was cute back then, because he was 6 years old.

It ain't so cute when he says things like that now.

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Submitted by Azure on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:44am

I am laughing way to hard at this. "How do I eat this?" Sounds like my SD. She asks dumb questions for attention.

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Submitted by Azure on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 10:06am

You forgot the "Oh, I forgot - I have to go to the bathroom right NOW" as soon as you set a plate of food in front of them. Then they're gone for 10 minutes, the food is cold and they "don't liiiiike it now". Wink

I'll have to check out that video! LOL

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 10:22am

LOL!

Believe it or not. My Dad actually posted a video on YouTube on "How to properly cut open and serve a pineapple". I'll have to see if I can find it.

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Submitted by DarkStar on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 10:56am

Drac0 you must tell me from where you get your patience.....I don't know who I want to smack upside the head first....your SS or your DW!

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Submitted by Drac0 on Fri, 02/07/2014 - 3:44pm

Hee hee...Yup. I've lived most (if not ALL) of that!

Actually at a convention I was hailed as "Drac0, the Patron Saint of Patient GMs"

(They even gave me a medal) :O

Unfortunately, my escapades landed me in a bit of hotwater with my playgroup. They didn't like the fact that I was posting their stupidities online for the world to see.

Here's an excerpt:

Me: "Okay. Standing before you is the tall daunting castle of the infamous vampire Lord Ravenlonft. What do you do?"

Player: "Is there a way in?"

Me: "Actually there looks to be several. There's a front entrance, a back entrance, and you do have that map that the gypsy sold you back in the village that states that there is a secret way inside. This is probably the best way in. You'll be able to sneak inside unnoticed."

Player: "I charge the castle."

Me: "You what?"

Player: "I charge the castle!"

Me: "You realize that doing so will - in all likelyhood - alert the guards and the massive undead army that the vampire lord has at his command?"

Player: "I charge the castle anyways."

Me: "Are you sure?"

Player: "Yes."

Me: "Are you really, really, REALLY sure!?"

Player: "YES!!!"

Me: "Oookay..."

*Several die rolls later*

Player: "WHADYA MEAN I'M DEAD!?!?!"