PITA 16 trashed Loghead's car yesterday afternoon. And Loghead isn't even slightly upset!

It was one of those weird weekends around here. I got a stomach bug around 2:00 Friday afternoon, and Gibby and I came straight home. Sadly, I told my 9 year old to have cereal or make PBJ cause I couldn't even be near food or out of the bathroom! Loghead was out chaperoning an event for his school, and the skids were at their ball tournament. No one was home to help, but I did make sure Gibby got food before I passed out asleep.

I was still was sick Saturday. Loghead drove Lazy Boye 15 to his game and then had to leave town for a meeting about his side job. He told PITA to pick him up at school when the game was over. PITA and his friends were out in the garage, working on a school science project. So again, except for me and Gibby, no one was home...

Jump ahead till nearly 7pm. I see PITA walk through the kitchen, all dressed up, and then a few minutes later, the front door slams and the car drives off. I call Loghead and ask if he knows where he went. He said he left for his group Chrismtas party, and ya, he shoulda said good bye, yadda, yadda.

Skip forward to nearly midnight. Phone rings. Loghead gets up and says he has to go find PITA. Some teacher chaperoning party wanted to make sure he got home safe in storm, since he'd been asked to leave for being in a fight almost an hour before. PITA was not home, and the party was less than 5 minutes from our house, so he should have been home.

30 minutes later, they wake me up in the kitchen. Loghead is seriously talking to him, but not really mad. Telling him how he could be in trouble at school and have to sit out some ballgames for fighting. Then starts talking about the car being "trashed." Saying how they were "lucky" the car hadn't flipped and someone been killed... He tells PITA they will talk more in the morning...

When Loghead comes in, I ask if everyone is alright, and he says he doesn't want to talk, he'll tell me in the morning, go back to bed.

Basically, it boiled down to the fact that MUCH earlier in the day, when he'd gone to pick up Lazy Boye after the ball game, he was fishtaling and sliding around in the blowing snow on purpose, and the 2 skids and a friend slid the car off into a ditch. Somehow, still don't know all details, they got car out and home and never said a word to me. Then he took the same car when he left to go to the school party. Loghead says that it was even a miracle it still ran to get him down the road...

I asked a few more questions, since this is Loghead's vehicle and his transportation to and from work, and has the best gas mileage of all our vehicles, since he drives the furthest to work...

He told me not to worry about it, he'd get it put back together somehow to drive. "It was the first snow, and he's a new driver. He was showing off. Boys will be boys..."

Yea, great. Let's remember that the next time he does it and ends up dead. Or killing someone...

So on one hand, I admire Loghead's ability to keep a cool head, and not kill the child, but at the same time, there needs to be some consequence. THIS is why my skids act the way they do...