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Smells Like Teen Angst.2003-03-08 - 6:25 a.m. Don't really feel like updating, but a lot's been going on so here's the Reader's Digest version... Last Friday, MW showed up at my house around 3:30 or so. Unannounced. He found Cam and 5 or 6 friends sitting in the kitchen smoking pot. Not good. The other kids left, and MW and Cam had a little chat. Cam begged MW not to tell me. Yeah, right. Not gonna happen. MW goes in my room to take a shower. As soon as he closes the door, he hears Cam scurry down the stairs and out the house. MW hops in his van and chases him. Tells him he'd better be home when his mother gets home from work. Cam says he just has to go return something to a friend and he'll be right back. Not even close. I get home from work around 5:30. Try calling Cam. His cell is turned off. Leave messages all night. Nada. Get a piss-poor night of sleep. Wake up the next morning. No Cam. Leave more messages on his cell. Finally decide to go to the police station and report him missing around 7:30 Saturday night. In the meantime, my whole family's out looking for him everywhere they can think of, and I'm with the police calling every friend of Cam's in the book. I was just getting ready to call it a night when I decided to sign-on to AOL as Cam. Sure enough, he had sent an e-mail from a friend's house. Sent him an IM at the friend's address. Told him if he didn't call me, I'd have the cops there in 10 minutes. Long story short (I know - too late), I went and picked him up. We went to the police station. They took his picture and prints, and ripped him a new one. Also set us up with a counseling service here in town. Then on Tuesday... MW was off work. He came over to my place a little before noon or so to finish putting my new desk together for me. Guess who he found here when he walked in... Yep. Cam ditched school. So my boy-child is in big trouble these days. Served an in-school suspension yesterday. I'm loving life, but not so much. Well, today's another day I guess. Cam spent the night at my mom's last night so MW and I could have a little privacy. We ended up going wine tasting with my boss. I think I'm going to go hit the shower now, then wake up MW. We're going to the Chicago Flower and Garden Show today down at Navy Pier. Hasta! Looking back... Just Pix - 2005-02-08
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