"Don White" wrote in message
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Yeah....sons have more value as yard slaves when they're alive. And, I
don't know about your son, but without mine, I'd be deprived of some of
the stupidest, long & drawn out arguments imaginable. Even worse than
what goes on here sometimes. :-)
Please..in your worst nightmares, don't compare your son to the likes of
JimH, Bert, Smithers, Fritz etc. He may act up now and again...but
there's hope for him once he's in his twenties and been on his own for a
while. It's called maturing..your son will do it but the process had
passed by the other characters mentioned above.

A friend keeps reminding me that my son knows everything at his age. :-) I'd
forgotten.

Example: He's learning guitar. I play bass. Last week, he asked if I knew
"Foxy Lady". I said I'd been humming it regularly since 1970, had never
played it, but I knew it revolved around a certain set of chords, plus
Hendrix' endless flourishes. My son says "Well....to your untrained ear, it
probably seems that way...." My friend had to run into the other room
because she was trying to keep from laughing a mouthful of coffee all over
the living room carpet. My son and I debated the song a bit and he went back
to the sheet music.

Two days later, he had his guitar lesson. He said the same thing to the
teacher, who straightened him out. My son's comment to me: "You might have
been right about those chords". Might have. :-)

Tonight will be interesting. The city of Rochester offers some great free
concerts at an outdoor venue. Tonights band is Little Feat. My son says
we're not going. I say we are. He says we're not. I say we are. No way to
settle it conversationally. So, I'm picking him up from his guitar lesson
and once he's in the car, I'm telling him I don't feel like cooking and
we're going out to eat. Not really true, not really false. There are lots of
food vendors at these concerts. So, in reality, it's out to dinner, with
background music. Lots of restaurants have music. In this case, it's live
music.

I'm assuming he won't jump to his death from a moving vehicle to avoid
seeing a band which, a month from now, he may admit that he liked. :-)