Teacher's Only Day yesterday for Marcus and after having a day off on Wednesday too with the teachers' strikes, I dragged him into work with me for the day. Ever since he was 4 he's been spending time in the trucks with me, and every day we used to talk about any and all sorts of things then and in the car for 15 mins morning and night going to work/school. Since he's been at college he's been on the school bus and at 13 is quite capable of having the odd day at home to sleep in and relax instead of having to get up at sparrow's fart to come with me... So Wednesday he got his sleep in and Friday he came with me, and the radio in the truck wasn't working. We had the BEST conversations about all sorts of things, starting with kids at school, kids damaging things of others, intentionally or not, and that started us on the legalities of actions, what constitutes a criminal act compared to a civil dispute. This moved on to murder vs manslaughter, assault vs self defense, use of weapons in all of those things and the main ingredient of them all, intent.
We talked about ego and how it drives people to be more always, how it works, how to work with it or around it. We talked about our old conversations about ashes in teabags and gingerbread men, yeah, I'll put up those stories another day LOL, inheritances, debts, nutrition and the lack of it and so many other tangents.
All that took us thru till about 1pm LOL.
It was great! At 3pm I left him at work and he trundled off down to the butcher's shop in Renwick to see about a job and grabbed a couple of hours of computer time in the mealroom till I finished up. A great day had by all :)
Those days, those moments are worth remembering.
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