Mom: Ugh I hate this song and its like the 5th time I’ve heard it this week! I wish we had better reception at work.
Me: What song?
Mom: It’s old, you wouldn’t know it. It’s called Downtown, they used to play it constantly when I was in Juvi.
Me: Excuse me? Juvi? As in Juvi Hall for bad kids??
Mom: I told you about that didn’t I? How a few friends and me stole a car when we were 16 and drove to California and got arrested. Grandma made me stay for 2 weeks to teach me a lesson.
Me: Definitley not, I feel like I would have used that for reasoning to do alot worse things as a teenager.
haha I love this! What a casual way to drop a bomb like “Oh yeah, your Mom spent some time in juvie.”
May 26, 2010 at 9:41 am
This is pretty much exactly how I found out that my Dad and his siblings were split up and put in foster care for a few years, just dropped casually into conversation and then “oh did I never mention that?”.
May 26, 2010 at 1:54 pm
And that is exactly why we mothers don’t tell our kids some things…. LOL!
May 26, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Hahahaha! Too funny! What could be worse for a bunch of fun seeking teenagers than to be locked up with the song, “Downtown” repeating over and over!? From now on, when I hear this song, I will think of this Mom. Hugs to you Girlfriend! Betcha never “borrowed” a car and drove to CA again now didya?
May 26, 2010 at 11:34 pm
WOW. Reminds me of how my dad used to tell me bedtime stories of being followed by thugs or hearing gunshots at night when he was growing up. Only he didn’t wait ’til I was an adult! Lol this is my favorite submission.
May 27, 2010 at 3:47 am
Would this be the Downtown that was so wonderfully performed by Groundskeeper Willie? “When you’re alone and life is gettin ye lonely, ye can always go, ACH, DOONTOON!”
June 1, 2010 at 1:32 pm
My partner and i clearly need to think much more in that way and see things i can do concerning this.
March 3, 2011 at 11:36 am