It took a couple extra days than what he was told, but the company that interviewed Boy for an internship finally called him this past week and offered him a position which will have him doing some programming and other entry level computer work. Even though I was a bit pissy that he had left Tuesday and Thursday wide open, with no classes, now it is perfect as he can head to the internship place on Tuesday and Thursday. He has grand plans right now, thinking he can add this and keep working at the Alamo Drafthouse on Saturday and Sunday, but we already told him not to try and do so much, he is going to burn himself out.
He asked us for some clothes, throwing in that we haven't been buying clothes for him like we used to. I have to agree there, in high school, he was wearing suits and shoes and that was a little pricey. Once he started college, it was like night and day. He has not been interested in nice clothes, choosing just to wear jeans and simple T-shirts. We got so lucky too, Dillard's was having a big sale where a lot of their stuff was on sale. All the shirts he got had original price tags of $90-$140. With the sales, they were all marked down to around $28-$43 and then we still got an additional 30% off. He wanted some ties and they had the same type of reductions. Ties that normally cost $50 were selling for $12. We walked out spending like $350, but it was like 5 shirts, 4-5 ties, socks, underwear, everything but pants. He looked at shoes and we offered to get him a nice set of dress shoes, but he insisted on trying to "stretch" a pair of older expensive shoes we got him in 7th grade. His foot has not grown much, I believe the shoes are a 9.5 and he wears a 10.5. I didn't understand this, as having more variety is good, specially if he is going to start dressing up again.
We then went to Buckle which is more hip but he only wanted some jeans from here. He has gotten us with $150 pants before, but he got two jeans that were a modest $60 a piece. This would have been fine, but Javalina likes the Affliction shirts and threw in two for himself. It was all good, I like my boys looking good.
Boy did try to get me to "reward" him with a new watch, so we went to Ben Bridge to look at the Tag Heuer watches. They are really nice and if we weren't being so disciplined on not using credit cards, I probably would have gotten him this one square faced Monaco style with a black face, which was "only" $1700. Wife looked at me and said no with her eyes, not even moving her head, just her eyeballs moved left to right, demons and mean women can do that move. Just kidding, it was nice, we rarely head out of the house together anymore, even if Boy had a selfish reason to join us, he is still our kid and it has been on him to push away from us buying him clothes.
I wish him well at his new place, maybe this turns into a real job after he graduates, maybe this is just one of many stops before he finds a stable job, either way, I am glad he hasn't been an idiot over the last few years who we have to constantly save from himself, it has been very pleasant in comparison to what some parents go through after high school. Keep it up Boy, we gots a Cessna to buy in a couple years. :)
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