Why does my 12(m) act stupid?!
Yesterday we went to July 4 parade/potluck. Everyone gathered at this house that is converted into a business. Once everyone was done eating, I put my wife’s pasta salad in the fridge. As we were leaving, I asked my 12 year-old to get the pasta salad out of the fridge. I told him to go in the back door by the bathroom, open the fridge and the pasta salad is in there. He comes back empty-handed because he claims he didn’t hear me say fridge so he couldn’t find the salad.
Jump to the evening we’re getting ready to leave for another potluck. We are planning to light some fireworks so I asked him to grab the orange Home Depot bucket that’s in the family room by the sliding door. He walks past the bucket and the glass sliding door, to the sliding pocket door that leads to the kitchen, opens the pocket door and walks into the kitchen. I asked him why he’s looking in the kitchen, and he said I didn’t specify which sliding door and he thought the bucket was on the other side of the pocket door. I told him then that would be in the kitchen, not the family room.
Jump to dark and we’re about to late fireworks. I asked him to fill the bucket 3/4 full of water. He fills it 1/4. He he kept saying he didn’t understand what I meant by 3/4. So I explained to him if I gave him one $.25 coin and I took three $.25 coins would we have the same amount? He said that’s a different measurement when it comes to money.
Is he doing this in the hopes that I will stop asking him to help out? I’ve heard stories of adults being a task to order pizza for a large group and they only order one whole pizza just so they can never be asked again.