I have always felt that when it was time for the girls to start dating, somewhere around their sixteenth birthday, I hope, the attention of boys would not bother me. The problem is I remember being a boy around that age and their was a lot that went on that I felt parents didn't know about and shouldn't.
I don't know if I can deal with that. I'm not sure I can deal with boy being interested in our girls.
When they had 'boyfriends' before it was childish and silly. Now it is starting to be serious to me. I don't know how they feel. To me every boy is only safe if he is a eunuch. And only if he stays ten feet away from her. I know I am not the first or the last to go through this, but I have only been a parent for four years and I was just getting the hang of it and now all the rules are changing again. If we all live through the next about twelve years and I know they will be safe out in the real world then I can relax a little.
Nastia and Elena went bike riding and that jerk with the guitar and the amp was there again. Really what guy brings a guitar to a park? A guy looking for girls! Right, and Nastia the next slow hand (yes all you non-baby boomers are going to have to look that one up, I'm pissed.) is attracted to him like he was covered in it and she's a fly. The first time he was there he said she could play his guitar, she must of asked, she always does. Doesn't matter how many times we say not to, she does. Today she sends Elena who says they are going to talk to some of Elena's friends. I was trying to be a more reasonable father so I gave some vague answer and she ran off all happy telling Nastia it was all right to do it. I didn't like it, but I felt they were safe.
The incident that caused me to let them hang out with Cool Hand Luke ( ya, no musical reference, it just sounds good. For all you scratching your heads it's a Paul Newman southern jail movie with the famous line "We have a failure to communicate here" or something like that. Great movie with George Kennedy. The warden who said the line great character actor, forgot his name.) happened when they were walking to the park and two boys walked with them for a short while, I was a block back. Nastia let one of them jump her bike, get it up in the air. By the time I got there they were gone. I didn't like from the time they all started walking together. And I didn't like him riding her bike. But I realized how much of I jerk I was being so, I said nothing and I let them hang out with Guitar Hero. That's the one I like best.
