Congratulations on getting the bolt out but more importantly for not yelling and screaming. I am sure you know that all males between about 13.5 and 20 are afflicted with severe handicaps such as:
inability to concentrate for more than 45 seconds
easily distracted by anything, especially babes
cannot accept or even comprehend certain realities of life
would never accept responsibity for own actions
cannot admit to any misdeeds
and the list goes on........

Fortunately they all mature out of this affliction eventually.

Which reminds me of something I saw and saved recently. Good reading for any parent and child although it might be wasted on any male as specified above.



Extract from a speech by Bill Gates:
Bill Gates, love him or hate him, made a speech in which he came pretty close to the truth! To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who may have grown up but is still a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished out in a speech at a high school. It was about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talked about how feel-good politically correct teachings created a generation of kids who have no concept of reality and how a lack of this concept sets them up for failure in the real world.

Here's what he said:

Rule 1: Life is not fair… get used to it.

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. (and he does not have to get school board permission to kick you out of HIS room)

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. You have to do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life, people actually have to LEAVE the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for them.
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David Hunter