My parents have been getting the kid prepared for his DL test and dad has been putting him through the former Marine fitness program getting him prepped for Basic Training.

The kid scored a 97 on his driving test on Tuesday. The only points he missed was at the very beginning when the DPS tester asked him to cycle through the turn signals and brake lights. After that the tester told him to proceed forward. The kid put the car in drive, hit the gas and nothing happened. He forgot to turn the engine on. Not a huge deal but a classic kid move.

Most StepMoms would do this for their SO's their Skids and their GrandSkids.

IMHO of course.

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My wife overnighted the SS card to SS-18 at my mom and dads. She hand wrote the following letter and scanned it to me at work this AM.

Wife called SS yesterday and read him the riot act about his continued lack of effort and his total disrespect for the people who are trying to help him enter adulthood. She told him that she was sick of him calling only when he needed something and that this is exactly how BioDad treats his own mother. He calls SpermGrandMa only when he needs something.

The Skid was PIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEDDDDDD after that conversation.

Growth has to be together or it will be apart. This is a spin on my favorite Ben Franklin quote. "We all must hang together, or most assuredly we will hang separately". This was in reference to declaring independence from Great Britain.