Now!

Yesterday I called to my 16-year old, "Stephen! I want you to take the trash out now!"

He came up, chortling. "You should've heard Joel," he told me, lifting the garbage bag. " We were playing XBox and he said, "You know what 'now' means, Stephen? It means not later, not when you feel like it, now!"


Someone's sounding like Dad more and more all the time.