Rich thinks HE'S ready to beat a kid!

I've been harassing a friend of mine to get her book selection in for the next Literary Gala--a book discussion group that we hold with the kids. She's been avoiding the subject because she's not even finished with her selection for the first one next week; so I thought she was just trying to annoy me as I have been annoying her when I received this message today:

• Not to change the subject, but I started Out of Order last night. I've read a little over 100 pages, and it's really good. It does have some spicy (though realistic) language. I told Brett I was going to complain to the librarian about the language. He said, "Mom uses those words all the time. She probably didn't see anything wrong with the language."

I caught him later to ride him and it turns out he actually told her that! In front of other teens, at that! Oh, boy.

Earlier this week, the kid was wrongly accused of stealing. His dad and I went to bat for him against the bat who accused him and this is the thanks I get.

;-)