Eff It Friday – Aren’t We All A Little Effed Up Edition

I’m Not Number One

As I wrote on Tuesday, Shane turned seventeen this week. At this age, he really doesn’t request much. He just wanted to go eat Chinese food and then have some cake and ice cream with the family.

I took a lot of pictures as I usually do, but I had one that was really my favorite. I think it was just because he was smiling naturally and looked happy and wasn’t trying to pose or look serious or do all the things teenagers try to do in pictures.

There was just one problem.

Can you spot it?

Yes. That’s the number one backwards. Total Mom Fail.

You want to know what’s worse? He even said to me, “Uh. Mom? Is the one right?“

And I was totally like, “It’s fine!“

You want to know what’s even worse? The Husband Dude said to me, “Uh. What’s wrong with the number one?“

And I was like, “Nothing! It’s fine!“

Me now, looking at this photo:

So, yeah. I’m a dumbass.

But I told THD that at least we can reuse the one and the seven when he turns seventy-one in thirteen years.

Always a bright side, right? Anyway, here’s the picture of my handsome man/boy.

Technologically Challenged

One thing we all like to do as a family is give The Husband Dude a hard time about being technologically challenged.

He still uses phrases like, “I filmed that when it happened” instead of “I got video of that when it happened“.

Being the smartass that I am, naturally I’ll respond with, “Really? Did you get your 8 mm out and shoot some film?“

The man still doesn’t have online access to his bank account. He never signed up. He doesn’t do electronic tickets on his phone for a concert. It has to be paper tickets. He never uses a self checkout at the store and he still buys CDs and uses my twenty-year-old boombox to listen to my old heavy metal mix tapes from the eighties.

We still have a working VCR, y’all.

He’s my coax cable.

We all got a good laugh, though, when Ben (our oldest) tagged him in a video on Facebook. To set this up: Cobra Kai is a show on YouTube that is a continuation of the story in The Karate Kid movies. Basically, the kids are all grown up with kids of their own and karate is still the center of their world.

Johnny, the villain from The Karate Kid, is trying to reopen his old karate dojo, Cobra Kai. The problem is, Johnny is kind of stuck in the eighties and has no clue about internet, hashtags or much else past 1989.

THD and I have watched both seasons of Cobra Kai on YouTube and enjoyed it but when Ben tagged THD on FB with this clip below, I think it solidified for THD that everyone is aware he’s a little “modern-challenged”. Here’s the clip:

Hash brown: hilarious!

But at least he didn’t put the number one on backwards on our son’s birthday cake, so…

Drunk And Brawling At Whataburger

And finally…in the most Texas thing I could possibly report today…apparently two public school superintendents from my hometown of El Paso got into a brawl in June at a San Antonio Whataburger while attending a Leadership conference.

Let me just repeat that. While. Attending. A. Leadership. Conference.

I mean, to be fair, Whataburger is THE place for late night after-the-bar-eats, because most of them are open twenty-four hours. Besides…it’s Whataburger. The best fast food burger you’ll ever eat.

Go ahead. Fight me.

And don’t write to me about how In-n-Out Burger is better.

But these guys are supposed to be…ahem…leaders. At a leadership conference, no less.

Anyway…according to The El Paso Times, Ysleta ISD Superintendent Xavier De La Torre head-butted Socorro ISD Superintendent Jose Espinoza at a Whataburger restaurant during a late night encounter in mid-June.

Espinoza punched back at the man who head-butted him. That man, identified as De La Torre by the Times, appeared to be intoxicated to officers at the scene.

Dude.

Between the two of them, these guys are in charge of thousands of school kids.

Thanks for representing the 915, y’all.

You guys know I’m a designer on Zazzle, but sometimes I like to check out the competition, and I found this magnet that I think sums up this post perfectly.

Stay weird, my friends. Normal is boring.