My daughter, 17, suffers the occasional unsightly blemish. It's a common indignity most kids her age are facing, have faced or will face and I'd say she falls into the "lucky" category because of the operative word "occasional" in the first sentence.
Recently Mount Vesuvius erupted on her left cheek–Texas-sized, impossible to conceal and just short of neon sign-flashing obvious. She took matters into her own hands: without his permission or my knowledge, she used her brother's prescription acne cream…
…very strong prescription cream that had come with a warning!
His doctor, upon learning I also had a daughter, sternly cautioned us that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES was she to use this cream! I didn't question why, presuming it was related to hormones, but it never occurred to me she'd try something for a single zit that her brother used for wide-spread, recurring outbreaks.
How could I forget the understandable vanity of a teenage girl with a red oozy bulls-eye painted on her cheek?
So, we're sitting around our kitchen table talking, and somehow this subject comes up. Not realizing it was a big deal, Rachel admitted using Thomas' cream. The conversation went something like this:
Me: "YOU CAN'T USE THAT! THE DOCTOR SAID GIRLS COULD NOT USE IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rach (nonplussed but amused at my outburst): "What's the big deal? A zit's a zit…."
Me: "The doctor didn't actually say, but I figure it has something to do with hormones. YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA GROW A MUSTACHE NOW OR HAIR ON YOUR CHEST…"
and before I could finish my sentence, without missing a beat, her brother chimed in…
Thomas: "…or a penis…!"
She hasn't used it since.
#snort!
Ha! Hilarity.
“she hasn’t used it since.” snort.
Bah! Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee just now!
#snorts are my favorite!! 🙂
More snorts with a side of hilarity–I love it!! 🙂
(And honestly, I was rolling when Thomas said that. The kid's a master of comedic timing.)
Hilarious. You just let us know if something more “develops” from this situation. It is great that the whole “kids say the darnedest things” continues into the teen years.
But I L.I.K.E. it when people spew coffee!! 😉
I tell ya, the things that come out of my kids' mouths slay me at times. Some things I can write, some things I'm not allowed <— Those are the funniest ever, but they'd slay ME if I did! 🙂
Love this story. But not using the cream probably had more to do with fertility than anything else. But hilarious anyway!!
Seriously ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!
(birth defects?)
I bet her brother is proud of that one. Got to his sister. ha!
Ummm, if it has to do with fertility, not an issue at the moment!!!! 🙂
SusieQQQQQQQQQ,
I LOVE that you saw this! My kids, your kids, they always make me laugh (except for when they make me cry….).
Too funny! I get the occasional volcano eruption on my face, and it always happens when I have somewhere nice to be, so I can understand the desperation.
Well, he does like to make me laugh, that's for sure!
Yes ma'am…desperate times call for desperate measures! (I can identify, too…!)
I have kids with some comedic timing too…so I can imagine this whole thing. I love when our kids make us laugh! This time your kids made me laugh…totally, totally funny. Did you ever think you’d type the p-word on your blog?? 🙂
Oh my…this is the funniest thing I’ve read all week!
OUCH!
The Diet Dr Pepper that just came out my nose burns like all holy hell!!!
BWAHAHHAAAAAAAAAA I can see this conversation occurring at my house in about 10 years 😉
That made my day it is so funny! Love it.
Hilarious! Oh my goodness I nearly spit out my coffee!