They should put a warning label on wine for middle aged women

Tonight my 16 yr old son asked to spend the night with friends in the neighborhood. My wife and I were watching a movie and she got a little deep in the wine. Usually this is a good thing.

Halfway through the movie she pinged his location and he was in town, at the end of the movie he was 30 mins away on the other side of the lake ….where he shouldn’t have been…at midnight. She went apeshit and started calling and texting him. He didn’t respond. I texted him and said …” hey what are you doing over there and you better reply to your mom.” He responded that they were at a friends house doing some green light dock fishing.

She went nuts…not only didn’t he respond to her but it was midnight, she didn’t know whose house that was, who fishes at night?, etc etc.She got pissed at me for trying to talk her down. Stormed inside, spilled her wine…I could hear her bitching inside from the back porch.

Son texted that he decided to come home because his friends wanted to stay up later and he was exhausted….he has 8am football practice Mon-Thurs. I had to walk the wife back from lighting into him when he showed up. Turns out they all got together…decided to got the friends house to fish…he got tired and came back. All safe and sound in the home with no meth or liquor drinking taking place that I know of. Big nothing other than not letting us know he was going over there. I was actually proud of him for decid8ng to come back and got to bed.

Jesus…I get the mama bear thing but she went full drunken tornado when he wasn’t where he was supposed to be. It took all of my professional and fatherly skill to manage the situation. Just another day in the life….

Also…thank God we didn’t have cell phones in the 80’s.