The boss is out of the office for the next week, on vacation.
I sit at my desk and wonder, would it get back to him if I were to leave a little early? Or took a longer than usual lunch break?
And the answer is definitely, YES. He just has a way of knowing things, almost as if he and my mother went to the same reconnaissance training camp!
Mom was like a ninja when I was a kid. I can clearly recall coming in the house after an afternoon of mild, youthful debauchery and having her waiting for me to ask me very detailed, pointed questions about that days activities.
All the while I’m left standing there thinking “We weren’t followed, we checked. How does this woman know so much?!?”
It got to the point that when we were out riding bikes and something slightly off my unwritten list of approved past times would be suggested, I would simply decline to participate. Of course this brought about questions as to why and I would reply simply with:
“My mom will find out. She always knows. It’s not worth it.”
Of course now I know it was the careful monitoring of the neighborhood moms that would light up the phone lines the second any of my friends would let slip what had gone on, or worse yet, if they had actually seen what we did.
Granted, the worst it ever came to was jumping bikes into someone’s yard, or throwing rocks at one another, or name calling to the best of our limited taunting ability. (You’ve heard how comical it is when small kids use the worst words they know.)
That didn’t stop my mother from letting me have it whenever I came home. OK, she didn’t actually swat my backside.
Oh no, it was worse than that.
She said “wait till your father gets home, he’ll have something to say about this.”
Ben Cox is the host of “Ben Cox in the Morning” weekday mornings from 6 to 9 on KQBZ, 96.9 FM in Brownwood Texas. He is the new in-stadium voice of the Howard Payne Yellow Jackets football team, & Ben is also an event DJ for weddings, parties and the like, and can be contacted through the Brownwood Area Chamber of Commerce.
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