High School Reunion

I’m gonna need a ruling. Was this a date, or a birthday celebration or a series of dates?

wrong……so wrong. sounds like a big mooch and a jerk…what’s the word for it? douchebag I think.

I wonder if the picture is of the rock……

And WTF is your kid doing in your trash, and did you tell the runt to shut up?

OP fail. Am I the only one who sees through this woman’s BS? She had more than “just friends” motives when she invited him down to stay with her. If that was the case, and she has a 17-yr old son living at home with her, is it not questionable judgment that she would left him stay at her place? Maybe people let old HS friends stay at their houses (if they have a guest room!) when they are (I’m hoping) pushing or over 40. But they don’t give them their bedrooms! When it’s a single mother of a teenage boy! And, despite their long-ago connection, it’s a relative stranger. What kind of example is she setting here?

Look, I’m not saying that single moms and/or 40 yr olds cannot have a dating/romantic life just because they have a child. I’m just saying that there is a certain level of prudence and restraint that a person in that position should exercise when it comes to having men you basically just met/reconnected with/whatever staying at your house and having sex with those men in your house. WHY? Because your 17 yr old isn’t an effing idiot and pretty much suspects you are going to sleep with this guy! That’s why he was going through the trash! Hello!

Is it any surprise that she attracted a loser like this? And that she basically let him mooch all weekend without putting a foot down, right down to the $20?

The line “everyone in the family” makes me wonder if maybe you weren’t single?

“I found an old high school friend on Facebook, who was single.”

Commandment #11: Thou shalt not split an infinitive.

Where the hell was the son staying during all this?

I’m with CallingItHowISeeIt and Andrew. This doesn’t belong on “My Very Worst Date,” it belongs on “My Idiotic Actions” and “Parenting: What NOT To Do.” Ugh, poor kid. Everything this woman did reeks of a severe lack of common sense.

Parenting fail. You invited “an old high school friend” (whom, it seems, you no longer knew very well) to stay in your house with your kid? What if he had turned out to be a weirdo?

And I can’t get over the sex thing. Way to scar your kid for life.

I completely agree with CallingItHowISeeIt. It’s really easy to see through the OP’s bull.

“I invited him to stay at my house, like I would with any other old friend” clearly trying to excuse this really poor choice. I understand inviting a friend to stay with you. But one you haven’t seen or talked to in several years, maybe even decades, who also happens to be a guy? Yeah, I think it’s obvious what BOTH your intentions were, especially when you gave up your own room for him.

What was your 17 year old son going to think anyway? He’s not a little kid. He’s nearly an adult, and I’m sure he knew what you both had in mind, which makes the whole thing inappropriate on a completely other level.

I know I can’t truly know what else happened, but just based off of instinct it sounds like you guys hit it off online and both pretty much planned on sleeping with each other.

I generally don’t read rants, however CallingItHowISeeIt has valid points, you FOUND an old friend on FB who was single, sounds to me like you were looking and found someone, didn’t want to spend B-day alone and flew in someone to sleep with. Not smart on so many levels. I also don’t see how offering to pay for his room made u responsible for all his other expenses, but desperate people do desperate things…BTW Happy B-day

Aw, don’t be so hard on him– he probably just ran a little short on cash. Then, now, and forever.

@grammarnazi – There’s no split infinitive there. A split infinitive is when you insert a word into the infinitive form of a verb, e.g., to righteously sit. “To sit” is the infinitive, “righteously” splits it.

The problem we have in the sentence you noted is a dangling participle; it’s unclear whether Facebook or the old friend was single.

@grammarnaziextraordinaire–I stand corrected. Or rather, I sit corrected. My question was also whether Facebook or the old friend was single. So does that make “Thou shalt not dangle a participle” commandment #12?

I guess most of us grammar simpletons knew that Facebook isn’t a ‘who’ and consequently deduced that it was the old friend who was single.

This is a funny story website, not an essay writing contest.

…oh, and I don’t know if you’re interested, but there’s a spelling mistake in the previous entry (‘rock and roll’) that you might want to split pedantic little hairs over.

The editors need to edit. Too many need som[sic].

Wow, am I the only person who thinks the kid overreacted? While she obviously didn’t pick a great guy to do it with, what is wrong with having sex in your own house? Unless they were banging on the kitchen table or being incredibly loud, I don’t think he has a reason to flip a shit. Her son IS almost a man and should realize that his mother is a person with needs as well. Should she become a nun just because she has a kid (fully sexually mature) kid?

Teach your kid that sex isn’t the devil and that adults are allowed sexuality (in an age appropriate way) and maybe he won’t flip out.

Also, you might want to check your self shaming if your family knowing you (as a grown woman with a son) had sex is “embarrassing”. I think it’s okay now, really.

I’m never having kids. If it means no sex, and my kids get to humiliate me when I do something privately, and they go through my trash, and that’s valid to you guys? This is a very American look on sex. And don’t assume I’m not American, I just know how sexually frustrated they all are. Does this mean if she finds her son masturbating she needs to scream and tell everyone? Of all the things things that happened in the story, we are mad at her for having sex with an old friend. Shocking. She didn’t have sex in front of her son, he sounds like a nosey dick head that needs a good slap to put him in place. Going through the trash…How inappropriate!

kelBel, Beth, and MMMichelle – the woman has a right to do what she wants, but when you have children, you do need discretion. I don’t go through my parents’ trash, but I do expect them to take reasonable steps to make sure that I won’t have to be exposed to their sex life. Frankly, I expect that of everyone I’m not sleeping with. But when it’s your family it’s just weird. And yes, it’s reasonable to be embarrassed when your whole family knows you hooked up with a virtual stranger!

I agree with y’all, parenting fail. Who cares if this guy was a mooch…it was poor judgment to let him stay over in the first place.

@grammarnazi – Sure, make it commandment #12.

The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree. Screaming ” I found a condom wrapper” and “I let an almost complete stranger stay in my house in my bedroom and f****d him when my almost grown kid was at home “. Hola!

No disrespect, but if you’re going to post, you have to accept the consequences.

“This is a funny story website, not an essay writing contest.”

Indeed it is, and I just happened to find that particular grammatical error hilariously funny. In the future, however, I will stifle the urge to laugh at such things. Wouldn’t want to appear “pedantic”.

I’m with KelBel, at 17 this kid doesn’t know his mom is a real person with sexual needs?

Danafebruary – your parents fuck. That’s why you exist. Get over it!

She may or may not have been indiscreet. People choose not to look at the practicalities of the thing. A single parent without a livein isn’t necessarily free to spend the night in a hotel.

But the kid is way out of line! Rooting through his mother’s trash is stalkerish and inappropriate. Telling the family is emotional bullying.

Uh… Grammar Nazi? Despite what you may have read on your English teacher’s wall in 11th grade, the “split infinitive” error is a myth. Around the turn of the 20th century, this idea came into vogue that we should imitate Latin syntax, but there’s never been a hard and fast rule against splitting infinitives, and modern grammarians will advise you that there’s nothing wrong with it.

Make sure you’re correct before you start being an asshole.

@Kate…. wow, totally missed the point about having a little fun there, didn’t ya? And also, that the “thou shalt not split an infinitive” quote was a Robert Heinlein reference.

Grammarians are still “split” (crappy pun intended) on the split infinitive rule; sometimes it works and sometimes it makes a sentence sound awkward.

And for the record, I’d prefer to be called a bitch, not an asshole.

The kid is a little pr*ck. What’s his problem?

So him wearing a fake Superbowl ring and obviously flashing it around didn’t give her the slightest clue that he was a douchebag? Facebook booty call gone bad. What a shame.

Why are you saying she was not being discrete about it? The little brat rooted through his mother’s trash, it seems. Throw that kid out! He needs to learn some respect. If you feed his ass, he should at least show some respect to you!